{"id":778,"date":"2013-04-03T09:00:45","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T14:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.bowdoin.edu\/arch\/civil-war-blog\/?p=778"},"modified":"2025-05-19T15:33:02","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T15:33:02","slug":"april-3-1863","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/2013\/04\/03\/april-3-1863\/","title":{"rendered":"April 3, 1863"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stafford Ctt.<\/p>\n<p>Dearest,<\/p>\n<p>I wrote you a tiny letter yesterday and perhaps will not do much better today. I had not finished the above sentence before I was interrupted and it has been two hours since. I am learning the regiments and officers. This command is completely new to me. I will enclose a list of regiments as I have had them drum\u00a0up, I imagine you and Jamie can pronounce German names about as well as I.<\/p>\n<p>I am going to move Hd Qrts. to the vicinity of Brooke&#8217;s Station tomorrow. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Lovingly, Otis<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archivesspace.bowdoin.edu\/repositories\/2\/archival_objects\/128792\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oliver Otis Howard to his wife,\u00a0Elizabeth A. Waite [Oliver Otis Howard Papers]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stafford Ctt. Dearest, I wrote you a tiny letter yesterday and perhaps will not do much better today. I had not finished the above sentence before I was interrupted and it has been two hours since. I am learning the regiments and officers. This command is completely new to me. I will enclose a list [&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":[19],"tags":[68,81,126,209],"class_list":{"0":"post-778","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-oliver-otis-howard-papers","7":"tag-bowdoin-class-of-1850","8":"tag-brooks-station","9":"tag-elizabeth-ann-waite","10":"tag-oliver-otis-howard","11":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778","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=778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2283,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions\/2283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}