{"id":417,"date":"2013-02-14T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T14:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.bowdoin.edu\/arch\/civil-war-blog\/?p=417"},"modified":"2025-05-27T14:46:25","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T14:46:25","slug":"february-14-1863","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/2013\/02\/14\/february-14-1863\/","title":{"rendered":"February 14, 1863"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_418\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-418\" style=\"width: 204px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/01\/2-14.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-418\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-418\" src=\"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/01\/2-14-204x300.jpg\" alt=\"2-14\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/01\/2-14-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/01\/2-14-768x1128.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/01\/2-14-697x1024.jpg 697w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-418\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oliver Otis Howard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Headquarters 2<sup>nd<\/sup> Div<sup>n<\/sup><br \/>\n2<sup>nd<\/sup> Corps. Feb. 14. 1863<br \/>\nNear Falmouth Va.<\/p>\n<p>Dearest,<\/p>\n<p>It is getting pretty late and we have had reading and prayers, but I can\u2019t go to bed without telling you that I have thought much of this day <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">8<\/span> years ago, since then how much of experiences in the retrospect.\u00a0 You seem just as young, just as beautiful, and I think a little more so to me now.\u00a0 There is so much freshness in our lives.\u00a0 I would like to lover-like to pay my addresses to you tonight.\u00a0 Never mind the wedding dress, nor the tiny slippers, nor the choir cake.\u00a0 To me it would be a wedding night if I were home even without the bonfire.\u00a0 Goodnight.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archivesspace.bowdoin.edu\/repositories\/2\/archival_objects\/128790\">Oliver Otis Howard to his wife, Elizabeth Ann Waite [Oliver Otis Howard Papers]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Headquarters 2nd Divn 2nd Corps. Feb. 14. 1863 Near Falmouth Va. Dearest, It is getting pretty late and we have had reading and prayers, but I can\u2019t go to bed without telling you that I have thought much of this day 8 years ago, since then how much of experiences in the retrospect.\u00a0 You seem [&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":[19],"tags":[108,126,209,242],"class_list":{"0":"post-417","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-oliver-otis-howard-papers","7":"tag-class-of-1850","8":"tag-elizabeth-ann-waite","9":"tag-oliver-otis-howard","10":"tag-virginia","11":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417","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=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2500,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions\/2500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}