{"id":45,"date":"2013-01-03T09:00:05","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T09:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.bowdoin.edu\/arch\/civil-war-blog\/?p=45"},"modified":"2025-05-19T16:13:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T16:13:54","slug":"january-3-1863","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/2013\/01\/03\/january-3-1863\/","title":{"rendered":"January 3, 1863"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/01\/1-2-3-M194.C374.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-83\" title=\"1-2-3 M194.C374\" src=\"http:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/01\/1-2-3-M194.C374.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/01\/1-2-3-M194.C374.jpg 3346w, https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/01\/1-2-3-M194.C374-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/01\/1-2-3-M194.C374-768x1105.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/01\/1-2-3-M194.C374-712x1024.jpg 712w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/><\/a>Jan. 3d.\u00a0 Last night we were waked by firing, apparently heavy cannon down river.\u00a0 \u2026 Snowing during the night, &amp; all day.\u00a0 Heavy thunder &amp; sharp lightning a part of the time.\u00a0 This evening it is raining almost constantly, &amp; the thunder is almost continuous.\u00a0 Our camp ground is getting very soft &amp; will soon by muddy enough.\u00a0 This forenoon I rode to town \u2026 to see our men in the Hospital.\u00a0 All of them (ten in number) appeared to be improving, except poor George Langley, who lies very low with typhoid fever.\u00a0 He has lain almost wholly unconscious for several days.\u00a0 He opened his eyes while I stood by him, but did not recognize me.\u00a0 His brother has been with him almost constantly for a week, &amp; will stay as long as he lives.\u00a0<!--more--> The Surgeons say he cannot recover.\u00a0 Yesterday our Chaplain attended the funeral of two men of the 12th Reg[iment], and today that of two more of the same Reg[iment], one of whom accidentally shot himself with a pistol while on picket last night, as well as that of a member of Co. I in our Reg. who died in hospital yesterday.\u00a0 The sickness in our Reg. now is fearful, about 150 men being in Hosp. &amp; excused from duty in camp.\u00a0 Most of the cases are manageable, though \u2026 there are a few who will not probably recover. As I write (9 \u00bd o\u2019clock p.m.) the thunder is incessant, &amp; the rain is pouring down in torrents.\u00a0 Such a rain I have not seen before for nearly a year.\u00a0 Our tent proves tight, however, &amp; I think we shall escape being flooded out tonight, tho\u2019 others will hardly be as fortunate.\u00a0 My diarrhea is not quite as bad as it has been, but I do not fell much energy or strength.\u00a0 Am living pretty, hoping to escape any severe sickness, though I have no doubt that I should have been in the Hospital ere now had I been as regardless of diet &amp; as careless as many of the men are of themselves.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archivesspace.bowdoin.edu\/repositories\/2\/resources\/1540\">Isaac Winslow Case Diary [Miscellaneous Manuscripts Coll.]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 3d.\u00a0 Last night we were waked by firing, apparently heavy cannon down river.\u00a0 \u2026 Snowing during the night, &amp; all day.\u00a0 Heavy thunder &amp; sharp lightning a part of the time.\u00a0 This evening it is raining almost constantly, &amp; the thunder is almost continuous.\u00a0 Our camp ground is getting very soft &amp; will soon [&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-45","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\/45","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=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2373,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/2373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}