{"id":689,"date":"2013-03-14T09:00:24","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T14:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.bowdoin.edu\/arch\/civil-war-blog\/?p=689"},"modified":"2025-05-19T15:47:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T15:47:14","slug":"march-14-1863","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/2013\/03\/14\/march-14-1863\/","title":{"rendered":"March 14, 1863"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Camp near Fletchers Chapel Va.<\/p>\n<p>Dear Mother:<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026] They all seemed very glad to see me back, especially Bundy, who said he could not sleep with anyone but me.\u00a0 He tried a number while I was gone [on furlough].\u00a0 I was very glad to find the box here. I suppose you have got Henry\u2019s letter in regard to it before this.\u00a0 I like the contents very much.\u00a0 The boots, which you thought so clumsy, are just what I wanted, and they fit me very nicely.\u00a0 I expect they will last more than a year.\u00a0 And the slippers, which I expected to find perfect flat boats, from what you all said, are the admiration of all who have seen them.\u00a0 They are exactly the think to wear \u2019round camp. [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archivesspace.bowdoin.edu\/repositories\/2\/resources\/385\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charles O. Hunt to his mother [Charles O. Hunt letters and personal recollections<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Camp near Fletchers Chapel Va. Dear Mother: [\u2026] They all seemed very glad to see me back, especially Bundy, who said he could not sleep with anyone but me.\u00a0 He tried a number while I was gone [on furlough].\u00a0 I was very glad to find the box here. I suppose you have got Henry\u2019s letter [&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":[6],"tags":[43,74,79,95,150],"class_list":{"0":"post-689","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-charles-o-hunt-letters","7":"tag-5th-maine","8":"tag-bowdoin-class-of-1861","9":"tag-bowdoin-medical-school-class-of-1867","10":"tag-charles-o-hunt","11":"tag-gorham","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689","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=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2303,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions\/2303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}