{"id":1672,"date":"2013-12-18T00:01:09","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T04:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.bowdoin.edu\/arch\/civil-war-blog\/?p=1672"},"modified":"2025-05-12T18:43:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T18:43:39","slug":"december-18-1863","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/2013\/12\/18\/december-18-1863\/","title":{"rendered":"December 18, 1863"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rain last night troubled us not.\u00a0 Made preparations for inspection at 2 \u00bd o\u2019clock today.\u00a0 Overcast today.\u00a0 A very beautiful sunset tonight.\u00a0 Ancient or Modern Painters can in no way equal the splendor of Nature\u2019s beauty when she adorns herself in Her most brilliant, and attractive colors.\u00a0 Not much accomplished today.\u00a0 Tent no nearer done than in the morning.\u00a0 Dirty, and lousy, too, as one needs expect such weather as this.\u00a0 Mud plenty.\u00a0 Guerillas reported to have torn up several miles of railroad, and burnt a bridge last night or today.<\/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>Rain last night troubled us not.\u00a0 Made preparations for inspection at 2 \u00bd o\u2019clock today.\u00a0 Overcast today.\u00a0 A very beautiful sunset tonight.\u00a0 Ancient or Modern Painters can in no way equal the splendor of Nature\u2019s beauty when she adorns herself in Her most brilliant, and attractive colors.\u00a0 Not much accomplished today.\u00a0 Tent no nearer done [&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-1672","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\/1672","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=1672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2020,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672\/revisions\/2020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}