{"id":969,"date":"2013-10-16T00:01:42","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T04:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.bowdoin.edu\/arch\/civil-war-blog\/?p=969"},"modified":"2025-05-13T12:00:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T12:00:55","slug":"october-16-1863","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/2013\/10\/16\/october-16-1863\/","title":{"rendered":"October 16, 1863"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/10\/10-16-Hamlin-to-Pres.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-971 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/10\/10-16-Hamlin-to-Pres-191x300.jpg\" alt=\"10-16 Hamlin to Pres\" width=\"191\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/10\/10-16-Hamlin-to-Pres-191x300.jpg 191w, https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/10\/10-16-Hamlin-to-Pres-768x1208.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/10\/10-16-Hamlin-to-Pres-651x1024.jpg 651w, https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/10\/10-16-Hamlin-to-Pres.jpg 1530w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 191px) 100vw, 191px\" \/><\/a>Bangor<\/p>\n<p>To the President<\/p>\n<p>My Dear Sir<\/p>\n<p>I learn that Genls. Mead, Sykes, Howard, Rice Griffin and others have recommended Col. J. L. Chamberlain of the 20th Reg Me. Vol. for promotion to a Brig Genl.<\/p>\n<p>Col. C is a well educated man and when he entered the Army he left a Professorship in Bowdoin College.<\/p>\n<p>He is a superior man who has proved himself an efficient brave and gallant officer &#8211; I take pleasure in recommending him to you favorable consideration for promotion.<\/p>\n<p>You may be sure he will do honor to himself and the service.<\/p>\n<p>Yours truly, H. Hamlin<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archivesspace.bowdoin.edu\/repositories\/2\/archival_objects\/39866\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hannibal Hamlin to &#8220;the President&#8221; [Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain Collection] <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bangor To the President My Dear Sir I learn that Genls. Mead, Sykes, Howard, Rice Griffin and others have recommended Col. J. L. Chamberlain of the 20th Reg Me. Vol. for promotion to a Brig Genl. Col. C is a well educated man and when he entered the Army he left a Professorship in Bowdoin [&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":[14],"tags":[31,78,156,180],"class_list":{"0":"post-969","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-joshua-lawrence-chamberlain","7":"tag-20th-maine","8":"tag-bowdoin-college","9":"tag-hannibal-hamlin","10":"tag-joshua-lawrence-chamberlain","11":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969","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=969"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2087,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions\/2087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}