{"id":284,"date":"2013-01-25T09:00:33","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T09:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.bowdoin.edu\/arch\/civil-war-blog\/?p=284"},"modified":"2025-05-19T16:06:46","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T16:06:46","slug":"january-25-1863","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/2013\/01\/25\/january-25-1863\/","title":{"rendered":"January 25, 1863"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>West Point Jan. 25th., 1863<\/p>\n<p>Dear Father,<\/p>\n<p>Your short letter of the 18th was received on 22d inst. I suppose William started for Port Royal on the 20th. I have been expecting him here all week. I was very much disappointed at not seeing him.<\/p>\n<p>I am getting along very well with my studies. I think Calculus is the easiest Math we have studied yet.<\/p>\n<p>We are having very warm weather, it looks more like April than January.<\/p>\n<p>How are the Limington soldiers getting along? Were any of them in this last battle?<\/p>\n<p>I have no news to write. Sunday comes round so quick that it seems as though I was writing the same letter all the time. You know how it is. Your letters, I believe are not much longer than mine.<\/p>\n<p>Your Affectionate Son, Malcolm McArthur<\/p>\n<p>P.S. &#8211; I don&#8217;t suppose you have got a couple dollars you would like to send me?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archivesspace.bowdoin.edu\/repositories\/2\/archival_objects\/57628\">Malcolm McArthur to Arthur McArthur, Sr. [McArthur Family Papers]\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Point Jan. 25th., 1863 Dear Father, Your short letter of the 18th was received on 22d inst. I suppose William started for Port Royal on the 20th. I have been expecting him here all week. I was very much disappointed at not seeing him. I am getting along very well with my studies. I [&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":[15],"tags":[59,105,181,192,248],"class_list":{"0":"post-284","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-mcarthur-family-papers","7":"tag-arthur-mcarthur-sr","8":"tag-class-of-1810","9":"tag-limington","10":"tag-malcolm-mcarthur","11":"tag-west-point","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","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=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2351,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions\/2351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}