{"id":1545,"date":"2013-11-24T00:01:55","date_gmt":"2013-11-24T04:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.bowdoin.edu\/arch\/civil-war-blog\/?p=1545"},"modified":"2025-05-12T19:27:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T19:27:47","slug":"november-24-1863","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/2013\/11\/24\/november-24-1863\/","title":{"rendered":"November 24, 1863"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adjts Office 20th Maine Vols, Camp at Mountain Bear Creek<\/p>\n<p>My Dear Brother:<\/p>\n<p>We moved today as was expected- the &#8220;Army of the Potomac&#8221; marched but it was like movement of that French General, &#8220;who marched 10,000 men up a hill and then marched them down!&#8221; For we are back in our old camp tonight, as easily as if nothing had happened but no fault. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archivesspace.bowdoin.edu\/repositories\/2\/archival_objects\/60436\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Holman Melcher to his brother, Nathaniel Melcher [Holman Melcher Papers] <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adjts Office 20th Maine Vols, Camp at Mountain Bear Creek My Dear Brother: We moved today as was expected- the &#8220;Army of the Potomac&#8221; marched but it was like movement of that French General, &#8220;who marched 10,000 men up a hill and then marched them down!&#8221; For we are back in our old camp tonight, [&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":[12],"tags":[31,162,204],"class_list":{"0":"post-1545","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-holman-melcher-papers","7":"tag-20th-maine","8":"tag-holman-melcher","9":"tag-nathaniel-melcher","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545","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=1545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2046,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545\/revisions\/2046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}