{"id":1259,"date":"2013-08-29T00:01:26","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T04:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.bowdoin.edu\/arch\/civil-war-blog\/?p=1259"},"modified":"2025-05-13T13:43:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T13:43:52","slug":"august-29-1863","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/2013\/08\/29\/august-29-1863\/","title":{"rendered":"August 29, 1863"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/03\/Farnham8-29-1863.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1260 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/03\/Farnham8-29-1863-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"Farnham8-29-1863\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/03\/Farnham8-29-1863-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/03\/Farnham8-29-1863-768x961.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/03\/Farnham8-29-1863-819x1024.jpg 819w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>Augusta<\/p>\n<p>My Dr Sir<\/p>\n<p>Your favor of the 15th is before me &#8211; I am much obliged for the copies of orders [illegible]. I suppose you have had sent you some 200 conscripts, which will prevent your being relieved from service as you requested &#8211; your Regt being in the first Army Corps is the first to be recruited with conscripts &#8211; hope you will be able to get get at least an other 200, which I think you will &#8211; altho the draft will not give to exceed 315,4000 conscripts &#8211; In the mean time remain.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archivesspace.bowdoin.edu\/repositories\/2\/archival_objects\/46624\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Governor of Maine, Abner Coburn to A. B. Farnham [Augustus Bowman Farnham Papers] <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Augusta My Dr Sir Your favor of the 15th is before me &#8211; I am much obliged for the copies of orders [illegible]. I suppose you have had sent you some 200 conscripts, which will prevent your being relieved from service as you requested &#8211; your Regt being in the first Army Corps is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,48,50,61,151],"class_list":{"0":"post-1259","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-a-b-farnham-papers","7":"tag-16th-maine","8":"tag-a-b-farnham","9":"tag-abner-coburn","10":"tag-augusta","11":"tag-governor-of-maine","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1259"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2132,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259\/revisions\/2132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}