{"id":867,"date":"2013-05-09T09:00:40","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T14:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.bowdoin.edu\/arch\/civil-war-blog\/?p=867"},"modified":"2025-05-27T14:12:36","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T14:12:36","slug":"may-9-1863","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/2013\/05\/09\/may-9-1863\/","title":{"rendered":"May 9, 1863"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/03\/10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-868\" src=\"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/03\/10-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"10\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/03\/10-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/03\/10-768x1155.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/03\/10-681x1024.jpg 681w, https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/03\/10.jpg 1573w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a>Saturday.\u00a0 Turned out &amp; got breakfast before daylight, but did not start till after sunrise.\u00a0 I staid behind nearly two hours making a descriptive list of Edwin Young, &amp; writing a letter to secure lodgings &amp; board for him at Brashear City, where he is going.\u00a0 He has never entirely recovered from the sickness he had at Baton Rouge, &amp; now has a chronic diarrhea that is reducing his strength.\u00a0 He might get a discharge if the Medical Director were here, or even our own Surgeons, I think, but nothing can be done as things are.\u00a0 After getting through with Edwin I mounted one of the Chaplain\u2019s horses &amp; rode on in company with him after the Reg. but did not come up with it till we got to Washington\u2014five miles from Opelousas.\u00a0 Here the Reg. turned into the woods but the side of the road &amp; stacked arms.\u00a0 We hear today that Commodore Porter is at Alexandria with a portion of his fleet, &amp; that we hold the place.\u00a0 We are to stop here till the arrival of a large provision train from Barre\u2019s landing on the Atchafalaya 12 miles from here.\u00a0 We are to go to guard the train to Alexandria, about 90 miles from Opelousas.\u00a0 Just before dark we marched through the streets to a fine smooth field in the suburbs &amp; encamped for the night.\u00a0 The officers lodged in a fine house that had been deserted by its late rebel occupant, (Dr. Prescott) &amp; where we found beds &amp; mattresses to lie upon.\u00a0 A well of excellent water was found in the yard &amp; fence rails afforded fuel.\u00a0 Much of the splendid furniture of the house still remained, defaced though, by rude hands.\u00a0 A large lot of valuable books lay scattered about the house, exposed to mutilation &amp; plunder.\u00a0 Had a good night\u2019s sleep &amp; did not turn out till after sunrise.<\/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>Saturday.\u00a0 Turned out &amp; got breakfast before daylight, but did not start till after sunrise.\u00a0 I staid behind nearly two hours making a descriptive list of Edwin Young, &amp; writing a letter to secure lodgings &amp; board for him at Brashear City, where he is going.\u00a0 He has never entirely recovered from the sickness he [&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-867","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\/867","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=867"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2463,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions\/2463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}