{"id":544,"date":"2013-03-01T09:00:58","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T14:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.bowdoin.edu\/arch\/civil-war-blog\/?p=544"},"modified":"2025-05-19T15:55:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T15:55:23","slug":"march-1-1863","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/2013\/03\/01\/march-1-1863\/","title":{"rendered":"March 1, 1863"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/03\/3-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-652 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/03\/3-1-187x300.jpg\" alt=\"3-1\" width=\"187\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/03\/3-1-187x300.jpg 187w, https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/03\/3-1-768x1234.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/03\/3-1-637x1024.jpg 637w, https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/03\/3-1.jpg 1510w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 187px) 100vw, 187px\" \/><\/a>West Point<\/p>\n<p>Dear Father,<\/p>\n<p>Your letter of the 22d. was received on the 25th., bringing me the sad news of Aunt Mary&#8217;s death. It was not unexpected. You wrote me she was sick in your last letter.<\/p>\n<p>I received a letter from William last evening, I have not had a letter from Charlie since last fall. I have written to him several times. I guess he has forgotten me.<\/p>\n<p>You will find my marks for the week ending Feb. 21st. enclosed.<\/p>\n<p>From your Affectionate Son, Malcolm McArthur<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archivesspace.bowdoin.edu\/repositories\/2\/archival_objects\/57628\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Malcolm McArthur to his father, Arthur McArthur, Sr. [McArthur Family Papers]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Point Dear Father, Your letter of the 22d. was received on the 25th., bringing me the sad news of Aunt Mary&#8217;s death. It was not unexpected. You wrote me she was sick in your last letter. I received a letter from William last evening, I have not had a letter from Charlie since last [&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":[58,181,191,192,248,251],"class_list":{"0":"post-544","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-mcarthur-family-papers","7":"tag-arthur-mcarthur","8":"tag-limington","9":"tag-maine","10":"tag-malcolm-mcarthur","11":"tag-west-point","12":"tag-william-mcarthur","13":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544","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=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2316,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions\/2316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}