{"id":1514,"date":"2013-10-15T00:01:22","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T04:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.bowdoin.edu\/arch\/civil-war-blog\/?p=1514"},"modified":"2025-05-13T12:02:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T12:02:32","slug":"october-15-1863","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/2013\/10\/15\/october-15-1863\/","title":{"rendered":"October 15, 1863"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hartford, Ct<\/p>\n<p>My dear Mother,<\/p>\n<p>I received your letter last evening and have been trying to remember what I can have written to give you such impressions. I know that my letters have been very hurried, but I was not aware that they had been especially doleful.[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>My engagement with Mr. Curtis is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">not<\/span> broken off, though our marriage is likely to be postponed. I should of course have told you had it been so. I consented to marry Mr C. because I loved him, simply, and for no other reason; and I love him just as much now as I ever have: perhaps more. If the time ever comes that I have reason to love him less, or if I see that it is wise to undo what has been done, I shall consider myself released from whatever of\u00a0 obligation now finds me, and I grant him the same privilege. That time, however, has certainly not come, and I can&#8217;t believe that it ever will. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archivesspace.bowdoin.edu\/repositories\/2\/archival_objects\/54572\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virginia &#8220;Ginny&#8221; Hubbard to her mother, Sarah Hodge Barrett [Hubbard Family Papers] <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hartford, Ct My dear Mother, I received your letter last evening and have been trying to remember what I can have written to give you such impressions. I know that my letters have been very hurried, but I was not aware that they had been especially doleful.[&#8230;] My engagement with Mr. Curtis is not broken [&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":[13],"tags":[116,154,158,169,191,229,241,253],"class_list":{"0":"post-1514","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hubbard-family-papers","7":"tag-connecticut","8":"tag-hallowell","9":"tag-hartford","10":"tag-hubbard-family","11":"tag-maine","12":"tag-sarah-hodge-hubbard","13":"tag-virgina-hubbard","14":"tag-women","15":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514","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=1514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2088,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514\/revisions\/2088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}