{"id":7251,"date":"2013-07-03T11:59:53","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T16:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=7251"},"modified":"2013-07-16T13:20:54","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T18:20:54","slug":"150-years-ago-today-the-11th-mississippi-at-the-battle-of-gettysburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/150-years-ago-today-the-11th-mississippi-at-the-battle-of-gettysburg\/","title":{"rendered":"150 years ago today: the 11th Mississippi at the Battle of Gettysburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>150 years ago today, July 3, 1863, Company A of the <strong>11<sup>th<\/sup> Mississippi<\/strong>, better known as the \u201c<strong>University Greys<\/strong>\u201d, a Confederate unit made up of students from the University of Mississippi, made a gallant stand during <strong>Pickett\u2019s Charge<\/strong> in the <strong>Battle of Gettysburg<\/strong>. The Greys penetrated further than any other Confederate company, but at a great cost: 100% casualties. Those who survived Gettysburg were merged with another unit from Lafayette county, Company G, the \u201c<strong>Lamar Rifles<\/strong>,\u201d where they served out the reminder of the Civil War.<\/p>\n<p>Read further and see their monument at Gettysburg:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gettysburg.stonesentinels.com\/Confederate\/11MS.php\">http:\/\/www.gettysburg.stonesentinels.com\/Confederate\/11MS.php<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/450_large_image.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7252 aligncenter\" alt=\"450_large_image\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/450_large_image.jpg?resize=600%2C381\" width=\"600\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/450_large_image.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/450_large_image.jpg?resize=300%2C191&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>150 years ago today, July 3, 1863, Company A of the 11th Mississippi, better known as the \u201cUniversity<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[309],"tags":[1474,7085,1336,1393,1337],"class_list":["post-7251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-civil-war","tag-11th-mississippi","tag-civil-war","tag-gettysburg","tag-sesquicentennial","tag-university-greys"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/450_large_image.jpg?fit=600%2C381&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}