{"id":9200,"date":"2020-01-08T21:23:55","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T02:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.willegal.net\/blog\/?p=9200"},"modified":"2020-01-09T14:35:51","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T19:35:51","slug":"miltiary-construction-corps-half-crazy-to-construct-road-through-petersburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.willegal.net\/blog\/?p=9200","title":{"rendered":"Miltiary Construction Corps &#8220;Half Crazy&#8221; to Construct Road through Petersburg"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here&#8217;s a telegram written by the Head Engineer of the Military Railroad at City Point to Rufus Ingalls, Chief Quartermaster of the Armies before Richmond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"657\" src=\"http:\/\/www.willegal.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/half-crazy.jpg\" alt=\"Half Crazy to Construct Road through Petersburg\" class=\"wp-image-9199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.willegal.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/half-crazy.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/www.willegal.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/half-crazy-300x197.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.willegal.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/half-crazy-768x505.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2003To General Rufus Ingalls,<br>\u2003At Genl. Grants Head Quarters<br>We have plenty of Bridge Material and 1250 men in Construction Corps half Crazy to get orders to construct road through Petersburg.<br>\u2003C S McAlpine,<br>\u2003&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; Engineer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This message was sent on the same day that the Union Armies broke through the Confederate lines just south of Petersburg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a telegram written by the Head Engineer of the Military Railroad at City Point to Rufus Ingalls, Chief Quartermaster of the Armies before Richmond. \u2003To General Rufus Ingalls,\u2003At Genl. Grants Head QuartersWe have plenty of Bridge Material and 1250 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.willegal.net\/blog\/?p=9200\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war","category-model-railroads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.willegal.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.willegal.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.willegal.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.willegal.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.willegal.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9200"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.willegal.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9231,"href":"http:\/\/www.willegal.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9200\/revisions\/9231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.willegal.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.willegal.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.willegal.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}