{"id":981,"date":"2013-05-22T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T13:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.bowdoin.edu\/arch\/civil-war-blog\/?p=981"},"modified":"2025-05-27T14:12:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T14:12:11","slug":"may-22-1863","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/2013\/05\/22\/may-22-1863\/","title":{"rendered":"May 22, 1863"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/03\/21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-982\" src=\"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/03\/21-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"21\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/03\/21-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/03\/21-768x1155.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/03\/21-681x1024.jpg 681w, https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/03\/21.jpg 1573w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a>Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Started at 6 a.m. &amp; after marching a mile were ordered to put two men with each wagon, &amp; having thus \u201cdeployed\u201d our Company, Lt. J., Capt. Wood, &amp; myself got on a baggage wagon, &amp; \u201ctook it easy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The plantation where we camped is the largest we have seen, having immense fields of corn &amp; cane growing, all of which is growing well, the negroes having remained till now on the place; but this morning, they are joining in the \u201cExodous,\u201d leaving home for they know not where.\u00a0 There are said to be more than 200 teams loaded with negroes in our train, &amp; nearly 100 Army wagons.\u00a0 Many of the negroes, male &amp; female, are on foot, &amp; there are constant acquisitions, making to the train.<\/p>\n<p>Stopped at noon in a beautiful oak grove on the border of the Teche, &amp; cooked dinner.\u00a0 Here for the first time a party was detailed to drive in cattle to be slaughtered for rations, a thing that ought to have been done all along.\u00a0 The Col. being unable to ride on horseback on account of a fall yesterday, gave up his horse to me for the afternoon, Lt. J. starting with his little mare.\u00a0 The Quartermaster states that there are now 400 wagons in the train, which must be near 4 miles long.\u00a0 The ride across the prairie this afternoon was a delightful one, &amp; I was even better pleased with the Country than with that on the march up.\u00a0 Halted about 5 o\u2019clock, &amp; the fresh meat\u2014beef &amp; mutton\u2014coming in early, the men had ample time to cook a good supper.\u00a0\u00a0 Slept finely on the ground.\u00a0 Heard heavy guns in the night in what we supposed to be the direction of Port Hudson.<\/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>Friday. Started at 6 a.m. &amp; after marching a mile were ordered to put two men with each wagon, &amp; having thus \u201cdeployed\u201d our Company, Lt. J., Capt. Wood, &amp; myself got on a baggage wagon, &amp; \u201ctook it easy.\u201d The plantation where we camped is the largest we have seen, having immense fields of [&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-981","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\/981","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=981"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2460,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions\/2460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}