{"id":1494,"date":"2013-09-28T00:01:25","date_gmt":"2013-09-28T04:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.bowdoin.edu\/arch\/civil-war-blog\/?p=1494"},"modified":"2025-05-13T12:25:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T12:25:34","slug":"september-28-1863","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/2013\/09\/28\/september-28-1863\/","title":{"rendered":"September 28, 1863"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Passed the night well last night, doing duty.\u00a0 Nothing to do, except for myself.\u00a0 Have been writing today.\u00a0 At two o\u2019clock ordered out for inspection.\u00a0 Thought we had got to march.\u00a0 Many reports are afloat but we know not what to believe.\u00a0 Letter tonight from Ellen &amp; Prescott.\u00a0 Papers from Butler.\u00a0 Fine day.\u00a0 Our days are delightful for Sept. but our nights are cold, and heavy dews fall.\u00a0 A walk with the Dr. after supper.\u00a0 He has promised to look out for me if sick or wounded.\u00a0 It is a consolation to know there is someone to look out for me.\u00a0 Felt a little blue this afternoon when I saw men shooting cattle, and thought that we had got to be led out to face muskets.\u00a0 Letters, papers and the Dr. cheered me.<\/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>Passed the night well last night, doing duty.\u00a0 Nothing to do, except for myself.\u00a0 Have been writing today.\u00a0 At two o\u2019clock ordered out for inspection.\u00a0 Thought we had got to march.\u00a0 Many reports are afloat but we know not what to believe.\u00a0 Letter tonight from Ellen &amp; Prescott.\u00a0 Papers from Butler.\u00a0 Fine day.\u00a0 Our days [&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-1494","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\/1494","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=1494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2103,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions\/2103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}