{"id":376,"date":"2013-02-05T09:00:51","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T09:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.bowdoin.edu\/arch\/civil-war-blog\/?p=376"},"modified":"2025-05-19T16:03:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T16:03:23","slug":"february-5-1863","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/2013\/02\/05\/february-5-1863\/","title":{"rendered":"February 5, 1863"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2012\/12\/2-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-377 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2012\/12\/2-5-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2012\/12\/2-5-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2012\/12\/2-5-768x1147.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2012\/12\/2-5-685x1024.jpg 685w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a>[Louisiana] Thursday.\u00a0 A very cold raw day\u2014have found it hard to keep comfortable in the tent, even with our little cooking stove.\u00a0 Finished my Ordnance Return.\u00a0 In afternoon there was a short Batt[alion] Drill\u2014our Co. out with the Lieuts.<br \/>\nThis evening a small mail arrived\u2014but there was no letter for either of us Officers.\u00a0 The letters for our Co. were nearly a month old\u2014few of them having been mailed later than the 8th of Jan.\u00a0 There must be another mail soon, I think.\u00a0 Poor John Loud gets sad news\u2014the death of his mother.\u00a0 He is one of the best of boys, stead, moral &amp; amiable, &amp; had a very warm affection for his mother, who is spoken of as having been worthy of his deepest love.\u00a0 I remember seeing her for a moment as the cars were moving out of the depot at Newport\u2014had a few words with her &amp; her husband, &amp; as we moved away, her last words to me were, \u201cTake good care of Johnnie\u2014he is a good boy.\u201d<br \/>\nMay the loss be the means of bringing him to the Savior, &amp; may he find him a present help in his affliction.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archivesspace.bowdoin.edu\/repositories\/2\/resources\/1540\">Diary of Isaac Winslow Case [Miscellaneous Mss. Collection]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Louisiana] Thursday.\u00a0 A very cold raw day\u2014have found it hard to keep comfortable in the tent, even with our little cooking stove.\u00a0 Finished my Ordnance Return.\u00a0 In afternoon there was a short Batt[alion] Drill\u2014our Co. out with the Lieuts. This evening a small mail arrived\u2014but there was no letter for either of us Officers.\u00a0 The [&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-376","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\/376","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=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2340,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions\/2340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}