{"id":714,"date":"2013-04-27T09:00:03","date_gmt":"2013-04-27T13:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.bowdoin.edu\/arch\/civil-war-blog\/?p=714"},"modified":"2025-05-19T15:08:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T15:08:58","slug":"april-27-1863","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/2013\/04\/27\/april-27-1863\/","title":{"rendered":"April 27, 1863"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Camp near Falmouth Va.<\/p>\n<p>Dear Brother N.<\/p>\n<p>Again with pleasure do I inform a few moments this evening in writing you and you are probably astonished to see is dated at our old camp \u2013 well so am I, for I expected long before this time to be far away\u2026 but we seem to be destined to disappointments \u2013 perhaps the future will be brighter \u2013 hope is will.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second time we have been stopped by rain. This time we had to stop for the mud to dry away and while doing so the enemy found out the plans and so we must wait till new ones are made!&#8230; I am not complaining of Providence \u2013 no \u2013 no!! Only excusing our delay. I am aware that the result is loathing to this army for deeds that will tell when the rebellion \u2013 and the south too, are gaining courage from our inactivity.\u00a0 But I hope the time is not far distant when this army will come forth from a [illegible text] with the heroes of victory in a great and glorious Cause.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archivesspace.bowdoin.edu\/repositories\/2\/archival_objects\/60435\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Holman Melcher to brother, Nathaniel Melcher [Holman Melcher Papers]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Camp near Falmouth Va. Dear Brother N. Again with pleasure do I inform a few moments this evening in writing you and you are probably astonished to see is dated at our old camp \u2013 well so am I, for I expected long before this time to be far away\u2026 but we seem to be [&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":[12],"tags":[31,162,191,204,237],"class_list":{"0":"post-714","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-holman-melcher-papers","7":"tag-20th-maine","8":"tag-holman-melcher","9":"tag-maine","10":"tag-nathaniel-melcher","11":"tag-topsham","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714","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=714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2258,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions\/2258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}