{"id":884,"date":"2013-05-15T09:00:30","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T14:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.bowdoin.edu\/arch\/civil-war-blog\/?p=884"},"modified":"2025-05-19T10:53:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T10:53:09","slug":"may-15-1863","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/2013\/05\/15\/may-15-1863\/","title":{"rendered":"May 15, 1863"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/03\/15.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-885 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/03\/15-205x300.jpg\" alt=\"15\" width=\"205\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/03\/15-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/03\/15-768x1124.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/03\/15-699x1024.jpg 699w, https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/03\/15.jpg 1623w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><\/a>Friday.\u00a0 A beautiful day after the shower of last night.\u00a0 Had Co. Drill this forenoon &amp; Batt. Drill, inspection &amp; dress parade in afternoon.\u00a0 Spent most of the day in reading Darby\u2019s description of Louisiana, a book published in 1816, which I found in the house.\u00a0 Several of the boys went up the bayou (Courtableau) &amp; got a couple of hogs for the Company.\u00a0 But little meat is issued by the Commissary,&#8211;about half rations of fresh, &amp; a very little of salt port\u2014no salt beef.\u00a0 The balance is made up by the men themselves, shooting their own cattle &amp; hogs in the woods.\u00a0 Double rations of salt were brought in the train, for this purpose I presume.<\/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>Friday.\u00a0 A beautiful day after the shower of last night.\u00a0 Had Co. Drill this forenoon &amp; Batt. Drill, inspection &amp; dress parade in afternoon.\u00a0 Spent most of the day in reading Darby\u2019s description of Louisiana, a book published in 1816, which I found in the house.\u00a0 Several of the boys went up the bayou (Courtableau) [&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-884","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\/884","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=884"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2239,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions\/2239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}