{"id":603,"date":"2013-08-05T00:01:24","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T04:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.bowdoin.edu\/arch\/civil-war-blog\/?p=603"},"modified":"2025-05-13T14:14:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T14:14:54","slug":"august-5-1863","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/2013\/08\/05\/august-5-1863\/","title":{"rendered":"August 5, 1863"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Camp 20<sup>th<\/sup> Me, near Pa<\/p>\n<p>My Dear Brother:<\/p>\n<p>I have waited long enough for a letter from you, I am going to write myself: &#8211; we moved from camp near [Warren] day before yesterday and here we are in camp to remain until the first of September to recruit up and wait for \u201cConscripts;\u201d there has I commissioner officers if men gone from each regt in this corp; and we shall expect that soon.<\/p>\n<p>There is not much going on now of interest; it is very hot weather now, and a thundershower everyday; if you would like cool and shady place, it is almost too <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">good<\/span> a place and we are in hot water all of the time for fear that we shall hear that old bugle sound the call to \u201cstrike tents.\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archivesspace.bowdoin.edu\/repositories\/2\/archival_objects\/44524\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elisha Coan to his brother [Elisha Coan Collection] <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Camp 20th Me, near Pa My Dear Brother: I have waited long enough for a letter from you, I am going to write myself: &#8211; we moved from camp near [Warren] day before yesterday and here we are in camp to remain until the first of September to recruit up and wait for \u201cConscripts;\u201d there [&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":[9],"tags":[32,124,130,191,239],"class_list":{"0":"post-603","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-elisha-coan-collection","7":"tag-20th-maine-infantry-regiment","8":"tag-elisha-coan","9":"tag-exeter","10":"tag-maine","11":"tag-union","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603","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=603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2157,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions\/2157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}