{"id":1565,"date":"2013-10-28T00:01:10","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T04:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.bowdoin.edu\/arch\/civil-war-blog\/?p=1565"},"modified":"2025-05-13T11:30:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T11:30:17","slug":"october-28-1863","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/2013\/10\/28\/october-28-1863\/","title":{"rendered":"October 28, 1863"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Camp.\u00a0 Detailed for guard last evening and have been on duty today.\u00a0 During the night enjoyed the camp fires instead of walking my beat.\u00a0 Very cold last night.\u00a0 Water froze in my tent.\u00a0 Rations today.\u00a0 Never saw the boys so eager for them as they were tonight.\u00a0 Beeves[!] killed today, of which everything was eaten except the hide and offal\u2014even the lights and tripe were used.\u00a0 Great scarcity of tobacco in camp.\u00a0 Men even gave up their rations for it.\u00a0 Order read on dress parade prohibiting gambling and obscenity in camp.\u00a0 This is a step in the right direction, one which every honorable man ought to uphold.\u00a0 It is reported that Gen. French ordered us back to our old camp last night, and again this morning, but Gen. Birney objected.\u00a0 There was no need of our coming here, I believe, but now we are here I want to stay, so much better is the ground than the cold, damp ground of our old camp.\u00a0 Fine day though cold.\u00a0 A little overcast tonight.<\/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>In Camp.\u00a0 Detailed for guard last evening and have been on duty today.\u00a0 During the night enjoyed the camp fires instead of walking my beat.\u00a0 Very cold last night.\u00a0 Water froze in my tent.\u00a0 Rations today.\u00a0 Never saw the boys so eager for them as they were tonight.\u00a0 Beeves[!] killed today, of which everything was [&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-1565","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\/1565","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=1565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2075,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565\/revisions\/2075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}