{"id":8555,"date":"2025-09-19T11:25:36","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T16:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/5-24-1862-p1.jpg"},"modified":"2025-09-22T10:57:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T15:57:39","slug":"5-24-1862-p1","status":"inherit","type":"attachment","link":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/5-24-1862-p1\/","title":{"rendered":"5-24-1862 p1"},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","_jetpack_social_image_focal_point":{"x":0.5,"y":0.5}},"class_list":["post-8555","attachment","type-attachment","status-inherit","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/a3viLY-2dZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"description":{"rendered":"<p class=\"attachment\"><a href='https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/5-24-1862-p1.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/5-24-1862-p1-240x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/5-24-1862-p1-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/5-24-1862-p1-768x961.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/5-24-1862-p1-1598x2000.jpg 1598w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n"},"caption":{"rendered":"<p>5-24-1862 p1.<br \/>\nMay 24th 1862 [Saturday].  Camp, 12 miles from Richmond, Va.<br \/>\nMy Dear Father:<br \/>\n\tI received your letter of May 19th a few moments ago, being the first I\u2019ve received since leaving Yorktown.<br \/>\n\tWe left, I think, on the 10th and marched through the Rebel fortifications which were the best I\u2019ve ever seen.  They had been thrown up more than a year ago. Their heavy guns commanded everything for miles around.  They had planted torpedoes all over the fields in front of their works but when we passed, they were nearly all of them marked by a small stick with a slip of white rag tied to it.<br \/>\n\tWe marched on towards Williamsburg we passed through the field where the battle of the 5th was fought.  Under a large tree, in the center, I saw two Rows of graves of Jersey Vols. I saw the grave of one 2nd Lieutenant. After he was killed, the Rebels stripped him of his clothes and left him on the field. I also saw them burying one man that was wounded. He had started home but died before getting to the landing and was brought back and buried with his comrades. I forgot to mention a grave yard I saw near Yorktown of the 5th Miss. Battalion.<br \/>\n\tWe marched through <\/p>\n"},"alt_text":"","media_type":"image","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","media_details":{"width":2382,"height":2981,"file":"5-24-1862-p1.jpg","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"5-24-1862-p1-150x150.jpg","width":150,"height":150,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/5-24-1862-p1-150x150.jpg"},"medium":{"file":"5-24-1862-p1-240x300.jpg","width":240,"height":300,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/5-24-1862-p1-240x300.jpg"},"medium_large":{"file":"5-24-1862-p1-768x961.jpg","width":768,"height":961,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/5-24-1862-p1-768x961.jpg"},"large":{"file":"5-24-1862-p1-1598x2000.jpg","width":1598,"height":2000,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/5-24-1862-p1-1598x2000.jpg"},"post-thumbnail":{"file":"5-24-1862-p1-300x300.jpg","width":300,"height":300,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/5-24-1862-p1-300x300.jpg"},"post_thumbnail":{"file":"5-24-1862-p1-150x150.jpg","width":150,"height":150,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/5-24-1862-p1-150x150.jpg"},"single-post-thumbnail":{"file":"5-24-1862-p1-150x150.jpg","width":150,"height":150,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/5-24-1862-p1-150x150.jpg"},"home-post-thumbnail":{"file":"5-24-1862-p1-200x200.jpg","width":200,"height":200,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/5-24-1862-p1-200x200.jpg"},"full":{"file":"5-24-1862-p1.jpg","width":2382,"height":2981,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/5-24-1862-p1.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1","keywords":[]}},"post":null,"source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/5-24-1862-p1.jpg","filename":"5-24-1862-p1.jpg","filesize":1811953,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/attachment"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8555"}]}}