{"id":1657,"date":"2013-11-30T00:01:55","date_gmt":"2013-11-30T04:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.bowdoin.edu\/arch\/civil-war-blog\/?p=1657"},"modified":"2025-05-12T19:22:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T19:22:17","slug":"november-30-1863","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/2013\/11\/30\/november-30-1863\/","title":{"rendered":"November 30, 1863"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bivouac in the open field.\u00a0 Changed position this morning and dress up behind a hill in support of batteries posted on top.\u00a0 About eight cannonading commenced, but a few guns only were fired.\u00a0 One shell past very near the fire around which we were seated.\u00a0 It made some scattering.\u00a0 Gens. Meade and French were along the lines and surveyed the enemy\u2019s position.\u00a0 They occupied, i.e., the rebels, a range of hills extending in an arc of a circle for a long distance, some mile and a half in front of us.\u00a0 We might have charged across the plain and ravine and taken the rifle pits and redoubts but it would have been done at a great sacrifice of life.\u00a0 Breast-works thrown up on the hill.\u00a0 Rails brought.\u00a0 Very cold and windy, as we sat in the open field and waited for orders to move, to fight, to make ourselves as comfortable as possible.<\/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>Bivouac in the open field.\u00a0 Changed position this morning and dress up behind a hill in support of batteries posted on top.\u00a0 About eight cannonading commenced, but a few guns only were fired.\u00a0 One shell past very near the fire around which we were seated.\u00a0 It made some scattering.\u00a0 Gens. Meade and French were along [&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-1657","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\/1657","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=1657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2039,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions\/2039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}