{"id":1327,"date":"2013-08-17T00:01:31","date_gmt":"2013-08-17T04:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.bowdoin.edu\/arch\/civil-war-blog\/?p=1327"},"modified":"2025-05-13T13:54:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T13:54:07","slug":"august-17-1863","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/2013\/08\/17\/august-17-1863\/","title":{"rendered":"August 17, 1863"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bank of Baltimore<\/p>\n<p>My Dear Sir,<\/p>\n<p>I was one of the few who helped to refresh your first regiment during its passage thro&#8217; our city, since which time I have watching your cause with no small degree of interest &#8211; if your cause as a soldier grew beloved which has not failed to challenge my love and admiration you may be sure that your career as a soldier of the Cross has bound me to you and to prosper you in the great work to which in his providence he has called you.<\/p>\n<p>I daily realize the fact that our country needs Christian patriots both in the field and in the cabinet. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archivesspace.bowdoin.edu\/repositories\/2\/archival_objects\/128796\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A.M. Carter to Oliver Otis Howard [Oliver Otis Howard Papers] <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bank of Baltimore My Dear Sir, I was one of the few who helped to refresh your first regiment during its passage thro&#8217; our city, since which time I have watching your cause with no small degree of interest &#8211; if your cause as a soldier grew beloved which has not failed to challenge my [&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":[19],"tags":[68,100,209],"class_list":{"0":"post-1327","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-oliver-otis-howard-papers","7":"tag-bowdoin-class-of-1850","8":"tag-christianity","9":"tag-oliver-otis-howard","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327","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=1327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2143,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327\/revisions\/2143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}