{"id":1503,"date":"2013-10-25T00:01:15","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T04:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.bowdoin.edu\/arch\/civil-war-blog\/?p=1503"},"modified":"2025-05-27T14:09:36","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T14:09:36","slug":"october-25-1863","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/2013\/10\/25\/october-25-1863\/","title":{"rendered":"October 25, 1863"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>West Point<\/p>\n<p>Dear Father,<\/p>\n<p>I received your letter of 21st. on 24th inst., Saturday. I think this new arrangement will be a great deal better.<\/p>\n<p>In your Sunday letter you seemed to be pained on account of my getting so many demerits. I am very sorry for there is no danger at all of my being found and the demerits don&#8217;t amount to much, it may through me down one or two files in General Standing. I don&#8217;t care much about getting my standing by demerits. I hope you will feel easier about my demerits hereafter.<\/p>\n<p>You want me to send my weekly marks. I will send them to you when I can remember them though you can not tell how I am getting along by \u00a0them any more than you could if I should send you so many Hebrew letters.<\/p>\n<p>Do you have letters from Charlie often? I wish you would tell me what town he is in, I have forgotten. I will write him as soon as I find out.<\/p>\n<p>There is nothing new here.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/10\/10-25.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1575 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/10\/10-25-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"10-25\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/10\/10-25-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/10\/10-25-768x516.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/10\/10-25-1024x687.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/10\/10-25.jpg 1345w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archivesspace.bowdoin.edu\/repositories\/2\/archival_objects\/57628\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Malcolm McArthur to his father, Arthur McArthur [McArthur Family Papers]\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Point Dear Father, I received your letter of 21st. on 24th inst., Saturday. I think this new arrangement will be a great deal better. In your Sunday letter you seemed to be pained on account of my getting so many demerits. I am very sorry for there is no danger at all of 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":[15],"tags":[58,181,191,192,248],"class_list":{"0":"post-1503","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-mcarthur-family-papers","7":"tag-arthur-mcarthur","8":"tag-limington","9":"tag-maine","10":"tag-malcolm-mcarthur","11":"tag-west-point","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503","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=1503"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2447,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503\/revisions\/2447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}