{"id":820,"date":"2011-02-24T08:24:56","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T15:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cumberlandcivilwar.com\/?p=820"},"modified":"2011-02-24T08:24:56","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T15:24:56","slug":"lt-thomas-sweeny-carlisle-barracks-1854-1855-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/lt-thomas-sweeny-carlisle-barracks-1854-1855-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Lt. Thomas Sweeny \u2013 Carlisle Barracks (1854-1855)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cwblog\/files\/2010\/08\/sweeny.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-194   alignright\" title=\"Thomas Sweeny\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cwblog\/files\/2010\/08\/sweeny-271x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/files\/2010\/08\/sweeny-271x300.jpg 271w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/files\/2010\/08\/sweeny.jpg 562w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 190px) 100vw, 190px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Richard J. Coyer, ed., \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/library\/Coyer1999.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Carlisle Barracks\u20141854-1855: From the Letters of Lt. Thomas W. Sweeny, 2nd Infantry<\/a>,\u201d <em>Cumberland County History<\/em> 16 (1999): 100-115. <\/p>\n<p>This article contains nine letters to Ellen Sweeny about Lt. Sweeny\u2019s experiences and acquaintances at the Carlisle Barracks.  Editor Richard J. Coyer introduces the letters with a biographical sketch of Sweeny, including details about his military service from the Mexican War through Reconstruction. This article includes extensive notes where Coyer indentifies figures and provides context for Sweeny\u2019s letters.<\/p>\n<p><em>This essay has been posted online with permission from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.historicalsociety.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cumberland County Historical Society<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard J. Coyer, ed., \u201cCarlisle Barracks\u20141854-1855: From the Letters of Lt. Thomas W. Sweeny, 2nd Infantry,\u201d Cumberland County History 16 (1999): 100-115. This article contains nine letters to Ellen Sweeny about Lt. Sweeny\u2019s experiences and acquaintances at the Carlisle Barracks. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/lt-thomas-sweeny-carlisle-barracks-1854-1855-2\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lt. Thomas Sweeny \u2013 Carlisle Barracks (1854-1855)<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[77,5039],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antebellum-1840-1861","category-our-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}