{"id":1382,"date":"2013-09-19T00:01:06","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T04:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.bowdoin.edu\/arch\/civil-war-blog\/?p=1382"},"modified":"2025-05-13T13:13:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T13:13:24","slug":"september-19-1863","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/2013\/09\/19\/september-19-1863\/","title":{"rendered":"September 19, 1863"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On board the Forest City.\u00a0 Set sail about five this morning.\u00a0 About nine was sea-sick, and for the first time \u2018threw up\u2019 on board the boat.\u00a0 Took my bunk\u2014not a berth\u2014and there lay till three.\u00a0 My first day out [of] sight of land.\u00a0 Saw Cape Cod as we passed.\u00a0 All sand.\u00a0 At night anchored off Martha\u2019s Vineyard.\u00a0 Quite a safe harbor.\u00a0 Several ships were there.\u00a0 The fog was so dense that the\u00a0 Capt. thought it best not to go on.\u00a0 Another row today.\u00a0 One Sullivan of the N.H. detachment tied up for striking officers.\u00a0 After remaining at anchor a short time, started again.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archivesspace.bowdoin.edu\/repositories\/2\/resources\/430\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Diary of Edwin Emery [Edwin Emery Diaries and Memoir]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On board the Forest City.\u00a0 Set sail about five this morning.\u00a0 About nine was sea-sick, and for the first time \u2018threw up\u2019 on board the boat.\u00a0 Took my bunk\u2014not a berth\u2014and there lay till three.\u00a0 My first day out [of] sight of land.\u00a0 Saw Cape Cod as we passed.\u00a0 All sand.\u00a0 At night anchored off [&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":[8],"tags":[26,74,121],"class_list":{"0":"post-1382","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-edwin-emery-diary","7":"tag-17th-maine-infantry","8":"tag-bowdoin-class-of-1861","9":"tag-edwin-emery","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382","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=1382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2113,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382\/revisions\/2113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}