{"id":1548,"date":"2013-12-21T00:01:32","date_gmt":"2013-12-21T04:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.bowdoin.edu\/arch\/civil-war-blog\/?p=1548"},"modified":"2025-05-12T18:41:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T18:41:10","slug":"december-21-1863","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/2013\/12\/21\/december-21-1863\/","title":{"rendered":"December 21, 1863"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adjutant&#8217;s Office 20th Maine, Camp at Rappahannock&#8217;s Station<\/p>\n<p>Dear Brother:<\/p>\n<p>I am very much disappointed at not receiving a letter from you and so do as I am being done by I should not write you tonight &#8211; but will &#8220;Do good for evil,&#8221; but as my letters fail to interest you, as I am interested by yours, I shall fail to comply with the command after all. [&#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>Adjutant&#8217;s Office 20th Maine, Camp at Rappahannock&#8217;s Station Dear Brother: I am very much disappointed at not receiving a letter from you and so do as I am being done by I should not write you tonight &#8211; but will &#8220;Do good for evil,&#8221; but as my letters fail to interest you, as I am [&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-1548","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\/1548","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=1548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2017,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548\/revisions\/2017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}