{"id":1509,"date":"2013-10-24T00:01:20","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T04:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.bowdoin.edu\/arch\/civil-war-blog\/?p=1509"},"modified":"2025-05-13T11:32:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T11:32:42","slug":"ocotber-24-1863","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/2013\/10\/24\/ocotber-24-1863\/","title":{"rendered":"October 24, 1863"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Headquarters Eleventh Corps, Army of the Cumberland, Bridgeport<\/p>\n<p>Dearest,<\/p>\n<p>We received a letter written to Chm. and mailed Oct. 16 &#8211; It had reached him in eight days and I am glad to hear Jamie is so well and you say nothing of Guy&#8217;s illness so I presume his fever too was soon over. &#8220;Ruby has a little cough&#8221; to keep company with papa I hope nether will last long. This is a cold damp place, more so than Augusta it seems to me. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archivesspace.bowdoin.edu\/repositories\/2\/archival_objects\/128798\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oliver Otis Howard to his wife, Elizabeth Ann Waite [Oliver Otis Howard Papers] <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Headquarters Eleventh Corps, Army of the Cumberland, Bridgeport Dearest, We received a letter written to Chm. and mailed Oct. 16 &#8211; It had reached him in eight days and I am glad to hear Jamie is so well and you say nothing of Guy&#8217;s illness so I presume his fever too was soon over. &#8220;Ruby [&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":[68,122,126,209],"class_list":{"0":"post-1509","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-eleventh-corps","9":"tag-elizabeth-ann-waite","10":"tag-oliver-otis-howard","11":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509","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=1509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2079,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509\/revisions\/2079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}