{"id":815,"date":"2013-04-23T09:00:53","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T14:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.bowdoin.edu\/arch\/civil-war-blog\/?p=815"},"modified":"2025-05-19T15:17:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T15:17:42","slug":"april-23-1863","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/2013\/04\/23\/april-23-1863\/","title":{"rendered":"April 23, 1863"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/02\/23.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-816 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/02\/23-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"23\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/02\/23-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/02\/23-768x1136.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/02\/23-692x1024.jpg 692w, https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/02\/23.jpg 1613w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a>Thursday.\u00a0 Went into the Hospital where the wounded rebel prisoners are.\u00a0 Found most of them doing well &amp; pretty cheerful.\u00a0 The ladies of the place attend them constantly, &amp; provide many comforts for them which add greatly to their happiness.\u00a0 Most of those I saw looked like intelligent men, and they are apparently among the better class of Southern soldiers.\u00a0 10 o\u2019clock A.M.\u00a0 Orders have just come to cook 1 day\u2019s ration of beef, &amp; take that, with 1 day\u2019s ration of raw pork and two of hard bread, &amp; get ready to move as soon as possible.\u00a0 It is supposed we are to go up the Bayou by Steamer to New Iberia.\u00a0 Got away\u2014not by Steamer, but afoot\u2014about 2 P.M.\u00a0 Marched about 9 miles to a place on the bayou called \u201cIndian Bend.\u201d\u00a0 Reached there about dusk.\u00a0 Made coffee, ate supper, &amp; camped down.\u00a0\u00a0 The men nearly all slept on the ground without their tents.\u00a0 Self &amp; Lieuts. slept on the floor in a house with the Field Officers &amp; some others.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archivesspace.bowdoin.edu\/repositories\/2\/resources\/1540\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Diary of Isaac Winslow Case [Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday.\u00a0 Went into the Hospital where the wounded rebel prisoners are.\u00a0 Found most of them doing well &amp; pretty cheerful.\u00a0 The ladies of the place attend them constantly, &amp; provide many comforts for them which add greatly to their happiness.\u00a0 Most of those I saw looked like intelligent men, and they are apparently among the [&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":[17],"tags":[33,67,173],"class_list":{"0":"post-815","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-misc-manuscript-coll","7":"tag-22nd-maine","8":"tag-bowdoin-class-of-1848","9":"tag-isaac-winslow-case","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815","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=815"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2262,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions\/2262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}