{"id":1366,"date":"2013-09-13T00:01:15","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T04:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.bowdoin.edu\/arch\/civil-war-blog\/?p=1366"},"modified":"2025-05-13T13:16:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T13:16:41","slug":"september-13-1863","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/2013\/09\/13\/september-13-1863\/","title":{"rendered":"September 13, 1863"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Camp near Beverly Ford<\/p>\n<p>Dear Brother,<\/p>\n<p>I am going to begin a letter to you it&#8217;s snowing and perhaps will finish it today and perhaps instead of using the pen I shall leave to grasp the sword and rush into battle. We have just received orders to be ready to move at a moment&#8217;s notice: the 2nd corps crossed at Rappahannock Station yesterday and are pressing on to Culpepper and we are to support them. I hope we shall not have to right today &#8211; it is an improper way of spending the Sabbath, but the excitement &#8211; even if we do not move &#8211; will be enough to spoil the quietness of the Sabbath. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archivesspace.bowdoin.edu\/repositories\/2\/archival_objects\/60436\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Holman Melcher to brother, Nathaniel Melcher [Holman Melcher Papers]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Camp near Beverly Ford Dear Brother, I am going to begin a letter to you it&#8217;s snowing and perhaps will finish it today and perhaps instead of using the pen I shall leave to grasp the sword and rush into battle. We have just received orders to be ready to move at a moment&#8217;s notice: [&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":[12],"tags":[31,162,191,204,237],"class_list":{"0":"post-1366","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-holman-melcher-papers","7":"tag-20th-maine","8":"tag-holman-melcher","9":"tag-maine","10":"tag-nathaniel-melcher","11":"tag-topsham","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366","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=1366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2119,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions\/2119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}