{"id":860,"date":"2013-05-06T09:01:28","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T13:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.bowdoin.edu\/arch\/civil-war-blog\/?p=860"},"modified":"2025-05-27T14:12:43","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T14:12:43","slug":"may-6-1863","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/2013\/05\/06\/may-6-1863\/","title":{"rendered":"May 6, 1863"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/03\/8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-861\" src=\"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/03\/8-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"8\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/03\/8-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/03\/8-768x1138.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/03\/8-691x1024.jpg 691w, https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/03\/8.jpg 1583w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/a>Wednesday.\u00a0 Reveille beat at 3 o\u2019clock this morning.\u00a0 Turned out &amp; had a warm breakfast of baked beans from the Co.\u00a0 Commenced the march just before sunrise.\u00a0 The road for the first two miles was very dusty, but after that we marched across the prairie, &amp; there being a cool north wind blowing we got along very comfortably.\u00a0 The 114<sup>th<\/sup> N.Y. marched ahead of us, &amp; we halted about 10 o\u2019clock in a fine grove of China trees 10 miles from New Iberia.\u00a0 Made coffee &amp; ate our dinners &amp; then many of us lay down in the shade &amp; took a nap.\u00a0 Started about 2 p.m. &amp; marched across the prairie about seven miles further.\u00a0 Stacked arms before sunset &amp; permission being given to draw fresh meat, the boys soon brought in fresh port, &amp; young pigs enough for all.\u00a0 Corp. Herrick went out with Houston &amp; got a fine veal calf, but as we had made a supper on fresh port, kept the veal for breakfast.\u00a0 Lt. J. &amp; Myself camped down in our blankets without any tent &amp; slept well in spite of the fleas that tried their best to keep us awake.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archivesspace.bowdoin.edu\/repositories\/2\/resources\/1540\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Diary of Isaac Winslow Case [Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday.\u00a0 Reveille beat at 3 o\u2019clock this morning.\u00a0 Turned out &amp; had a warm breakfast of baked beans from the Co.\u00a0 Commenced the march just before sunrise.\u00a0 The road for the first two miles was very dusty, but after that we marched across the prairie, &amp; there being a cool north wind blowing we got [&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":[33,67,89],"class_list":{"0":"post-860","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-capt-isaac-winslow-case","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860","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=860"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2464,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions\/2464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}