{"id":1563,"date":"2013-10-29T00:01:41","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T04:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.bowdoin.edu\/arch\/civil-war-blog\/?p=1563"},"modified":"2025-05-13T11:29:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T11:29:56","slug":"october-29-1863","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/2013\/10\/29\/october-29-1863\/","title":{"rendered":"October 29, 1863"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New camp.\u00a0 Moved back into the woods early this morning, and pitched our tents.\u00a0 Go in with Trick &amp; Farr, Pratt &amp; Frink having been detailed to work on the rail-road.\u00a0 Noble has been off a week.\u00a0 Shall be glad when he gets back.\u00a0 Am more and more disgusted with members of our company than ever.\u00a0 They are a set of ignoramuses, a few excepted.<\/p>\n<p>We have a fine camping ground.\u00a0 The men have pitched tents on a ridge in the woods, fronting the east, our rear towards the rail-road.\u00a0 Line officers in our rear, field in the rear of them, and on a knoll in the extreme rear is the hospital.\u00a0 This is a beautiful growth, water and wood are convenient, and upon the whole it is the best ground we have had for an encampment.\u00a0 Reports come today that we are to remain here on the left flank some time, but of course can not tell.\u00a0 Officers and men hope so at any rate.\u00a0 A fine day, notwithstanding the appearance of rain last night.\u00a0 Afternoons cool.\u00a0 Am writing at the Dr\u2019s. \u00a0Have had a good chat with him.\u00a0 I miss society very much.\u00a0 Think as much of that now as I did victuals last week when I longed for something besides hard bread &amp; pork.\u00a0 Now for my quarters to retire after toasting my feet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archivesspace.bowdoin.edu\/repositories\/2\/resources\/430\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Diary of Edwin Emery [Edwin Emery Diaries and Memoir]\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New camp.\u00a0 Moved back into the woods early this morning, and pitched our tents.\u00a0 Go in with Trick &amp; Farr, Pratt &amp; Frink having been detailed to work on the rail-road.\u00a0 Noble has been off a week.\u00a0 Shall be glad when he gets back.\u00a0 Am more and more disgusted with members of our company than [&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":[8],"tags":[26,74,121],"class_list":{"0":"post-1563","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-edwin-emery-diary","7":"tag-17th-maine-infantry","8":"tag-bowdoin-class-of-1861","9":"tag-edwin-emery","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563","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=1563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2074,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563\/revisions\/2074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}