{"id":262,"date":"2013-01-21T09:00:08","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T09:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.bowdoin.edu\/arch\/civil-war-blog\/?p=262"},"modified":"2025-05-19T16:07:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T16:07:59","slug":"january-21-1863","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/2013\/01\/21\/january-21-1863\/","title":{"rendered":"January 21, 1863"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2012\/12\/1-21-M194.C374.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-263\" title=\"1-21 M194.C374\" src=\"http:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2012\/12\/1-21-M194.C374.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2012\/12\/1-21-M194.C374.jpg 2981w, https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2012\/12\/1-21-M194.C374-768x1209.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2012\/12\/1-21-M194.C374-651x1024.jpg 651w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 190px) 100vw, 190px\" \/><\/a>[Louisiana] Jan. 21st.\u00a0 This morning orders came to have knapsacks packed &amp; ready to sling at any moment for a move.\u00a0 Went out after a company inspection of arms &amp; had a short skirmish drill.\u00a0 Came in at 11 \u00bd o\u2019clock &amp; at once detailed ten men with spades &amp; picks to go down near the Blind Asylum &amp; work on the ground that we are to occupy next as a camping ground.\u00a0 Held ourselves ready all the afternoon for a move, but the order did not come.\u00a0 We expect tomorrow early in the morning\u2014have now occupied this ground nine days &amp; it is about time for another move.\u00a0 A report has spread in camp today that there is to be a general examination of the Officers of the Reg., &amp; a pretty rigid one, and all those not \u201cpassing muster\u201d are to be discharged.\u00a0 It was said that some dozen officers of the 26th Maine have already been rejected on examination.\u00a0 This evening, on conversing with a member of the 26th I learn that there has been some talk of sending one or two obviously incompetent officers before an examining board!\u00a0 So much for camp stories.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archivesspace.bowdoin.edu\/repositories\/2\/resources\/1540\">Diary of Isaac Winslow Case [Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Louisiana] Jan. 21st.\u00a0 This morning orders came to have knapsacks packed &amp; ready to sling at any moment for a move.\u00a0 Went out after a company inspection of arms &amp; had a short skirmish drill.\u00a0 Came in at 11 \u00bd o\u2019clock &amp; at once detailed ten men with spades &amp; picks to go down near [&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":[17],"tags":[33,89,106],"class_list":{"0":"post-262","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-misc-manuscript-coll","7":"tag-22nd-maine","8":"tag-capt-isaac-winslow-case","9":"tag-class-of-1848","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","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=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2355,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions\/2355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}