{"id":1168,"date":"2010-03-08T16:36:13","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T21:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/?p=1168"},"modified":"2010-06-16T10:34:55","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T15:34:55","slug":"a-civil-war-soldier-in-the-wild-cat-regiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2010\/03\/08\/a-civil-war-soldier-in-the-wild-cat-regiment\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A Civil War Soldier in the Wild Cat Regiment&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/memory.loc.gov\/ammem\/collections\/tcreynolds\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1170\" style=\"border: 7px solid black\" title=\"wild_cat\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2010\/03\/wild_cat.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2010\/03\/wild_cat.jpg 320w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2010\/03\/wild_cat-300x217.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/memory.loc.gov\/ammem\/collections\/tcreynolds\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">A Civil War Soldier in the Wild Cat Regiment<\/a>,\u201d which is available from the Library of Congress, features Captain Tilton Reynolds correspondence with his family between 1861 and 1864. Reynolds, who joined the 105th Pennsylvania Volunteers as a seventeen year old private, became a prisoner of war after the Battle of Fair Oaks in May 1862 and was exchanged four months later. Hereceived a commission in November 1864. (A <a href=\"http:\/\/memory.loc.gov\/ammem\/collections\/tcreynolds\/tcrtime.html\" target=\"_blank\">timeline <\/a>is available). Forty-six letters in this collection have been transcribed, including <a href=\"http:\/\/hdl.loc.gov\/loc.mss\/mreynolds.002007\" target=\"_blank\">one from October 1861<\/a> in which Reynolds described President Abraham Lincoln. As \u201cPresident Lincoln and his Wife and child went By In a two horse Carriage,\u201d Reynolds explained how \u201cLincoln laughed when he seen us all standing looking at him.\u201d \u201c[Lincoln] looks a good deal like his picture only he is better looking,\u201d as Reynolds concluded. In addition, this exhibit includes correspondence from other members of Reynolds\u2019 extended family as well as from a family friend who also served in the Wild Cat Regiment. A <a href=\"http:\/\/memory.loc.gov\/ammem\/collections\/tcreynolds\/tcrfamily.html\" target=\"_blank\">short essay<\/a> provides more information on these individuals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cA Civil War Soldier in the Wild Cat Regiment,\u201d which is available from the Library of Congress, features Captain Tilton Reynolds correspondence with his family between 1861 and 1864. Reynolds, who joined the 105th Pennsylvania Volunteers as a seventeen year old private, became a prisoner of war after the Battle of Fair Oaks in May [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,172],"tags":[161],"class_list":["post-1168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war-1861-1865","category-letters-diaries","tag-battles-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1168"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1173,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168\/revisions\/1173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}