{"id":989,"date":"2013-05-20T09:00:17","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T13:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.bowdoin.edu\/arch\/civil-war-blog\/?p=989"},"modified":"2025-05-19T10:50:43","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T10:50:43","slug":"may-20-1863","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/2013\/05\/20\/may-20-1863\/","title":{"rendered":"May 20, 1863"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/03\/19.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-990 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/03\/19-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"19\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/03\/19-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/03\/19-768x1172.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/03\/19-671x1024.jpg 671w, https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/03\/19.jpg 1583w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/a>Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Got up this morning &amp; went down to the bayou to wash, &amp; came back pretty well tired.\u00a0 Ate a light breakfast, &amp; spent the forenoon in the house.\u00a0\u00a0 Feel pretty well, but quite weak.\u00a0 At noon, orders were given to be ready to march at 4 o\u2019clock.\u00a0 At some roast pig at dinner, with good relish.<\/p>\n<p>Shall put my pack on the team, &amp; try to march with the Company, but expect to get pretty tired, as I feel quite weak.\u00a0 Had a vomiting spell after dinner, &amp; being offered a horse, concluded to ride.\u00a0 We left camp at 3 \u00bd o\u2019clock, and reached Barre\u2019s landing at 8.\u00a0 The men made coffee by the fires of the 26<sup>th<\/sup> Me. that had been encamped there two days.\u00a0 I camped down without eating or drinking anything.\u00a0 Walked the last two miles, letting Capt. Gilman ride.\u00a0 We are to march to Brashear City, &amp; expect to be about 8 days on the route.\u00a0 Are ordered to start as early as six every morning, &amp; march about 15 miles a day, stopping ten minutes each hour, &amp; two hours in the middle of the day.<\/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>Wednesday. Got up this morning &amp; went down to the bayou to wash, &amp; came back pretty well tired.\u00a0 Ate a light breakfast, &amp; spent the forenoon in the house.\u00a0\u00a0 Feel pretty well, but quite weak.\u00a0 At noon, orders were given to be ready to march at 4 o\u2019clock.\u00a0 At some roast pig at dinner, [&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-989","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\/989","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=989"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2234,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989\/revisions\/2234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}