{"id":515,"date":"2013-02-27T09:00:52","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T14:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.bowdoin.edu\/arch\/civil-war-blog\/?p=515"},"modified":"2025-05-19T15:55:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T15:55:52","slug":"february-27-1863","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/2013\/02\/27\/february-27-1863\/","title":{"rendered":"February 27, 1863"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/02\/2-27.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-517 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/02\/2-27-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/02\/2-27-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/02\/2-27-768x1153.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/02\/2-27-682x1024.jpg 682w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Friday.\u00a0 Soon after the death of the man mentioned above, another in the same Co. was taken suddenly sick in his tent, &amp; in a few minutes he too died.\u00a0 During the night two others died in the hospital, making four in one night.\u00a0 Truly, \u201cin the midst of life we are in death.\u201d\u00a0 Had a drill this forenoon\u2014target practice.\u00a0 I was too busy writing to go out.\u00a0 Our Co. were thought to have made as good shots as any in the Regt.\u00a0 I have written &amp; mailed letters today to Mrs. Mitchell, &amp; to Lyman Tyler, of Bangor, an uncle of Mitchell, giving them an account of his sickness &amp; death.\u00a0 Have also written to the Med. Director of the Chesapeake Genl. Hospital, requesting him to inform me of the dates of\u00a0 Gardner &amp; Wiggins decease, what effects they left, and what disposition was made of them.\u00a0 Wrote to sister Sarah today, &amp; inclosed a short note to her husband.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archivesspace.bowdoin.edu\/repositories\/2\/resources\/1540\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Diary of Isaac Winslow Case [Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday.\u00a0 Soon after the death of the man mentioned above, another in the same Co. was taken suddenly sick in his tent, &amp; in a few minutes he too died.\u00a0 During the night two others died in the hospital, making four in one night.\u00a0 Truly, \u201cin the midst of life we are in death.\u201d\u00a0 Had [&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":[33,89,106,186,239],"class_list":{"0":"post-515","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":"tag-louisiana","11":"tag-union","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515","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=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2318,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions\/2318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}