{"id":5100,"date":"2023-09-28T08:43:23","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T13:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/howardletter.png"},"modified":"2023-09-28T08:48:44","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T13:48:44","slug":"howardletter-2","status":"inherit","type":"attachment","link":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/legislators\/merrimon-howard\/howardletter-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to Governor Powers, Nov. 4, 1872"},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":""},"class_list":["post-5100","attachment","type-attachment","status-inherit","hentry"],"description":{"rendered":"<p class=\"attachment\"><a href='https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/howardletter.png'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" src=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/howardletter-300x185.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"Letter to Governor Powers, Nov. 4, 1872\" srcset=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/howardletter-300x185.png 300w, https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/howardletter-1024x633.png 1024w, https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/howardletter-768x475.png 768w, https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/howardletter.png 1497w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/cwrgm.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Civil War &#038; Reconstruction Governors of Mississippi<\/a> project. Original held at the Mississippi Department of Archives &#038; History.<\/p>\n<p>Fayette Miss Nov 4th 1872<\/p>\n<p>His Excellency, R. C. Powers.<br \/>\nGov of Miss.<\/p>\n<p>I regret to inform your Excellency that I have just returned from a long search for James Stewart, who killed Jefferson Blanton a colored man. Stewart has gone over on Red River; he was pursued and overtaken, soon after he shot Blanton by ^the^ City Marshall with a squad of six men. But Stewart being so well armed, they failed to capture him. He shot a hole through the coat collar of the City Marshall, and another through the sleeve of his coat, burning and marking the skin in both places. He retreated until he reached a skiff at his wood yard just below Rodney. It being dark he escaped. Blanton was shot on the 26th ultimo<\/p>\n<p>Description<\/p>\n<p>He is rather a thin and square built man; dark hair, has a yellow complextion, and looks as if he had the swamp fever. He has dark eyes but not black. He is about five feet 6 inches high and between thirty and thirty five years of age.<\/p>\n<p>Respectfully submitted<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/legislators\/merrimon-howard\/\">M Howard<\/a><br \/>\nSheriff of Jefferson Co<\/p>\n"},"caption":{"rendered":"<p>Letter to Governor Powers, Nov. 4, 1872<\/p>\n"},"alt_text":"Letter to Governor Powers, Nov. 4, 1872","media_type":"image","mime_type":"image\/png","media_details":{"width":1497,"height":925,"file":"2023\/09\/howardletter.png","filesize":2144056,"sizes":{"medium":{"file":"howardletter-300x185.png","width":300,"height":185,"filesize":78681,"mime_type":"image\/png","source_url":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/howardletter-300x185.png"},"large":{"file":"howardletter-1024x633.png","width":1024,"height":633,"filesize":727926,"mime_type":"image\/png","source_url":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/howardletter-1024x633.png"},"thumbnail":{"file":"howardletter-150x150.png","width":150,"height":150,"filesize":33358,"mime_type":"image\/png","source_url":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/howardletter-150x150.png"},"medium_large":{"file":"howardletter-768x475.png","width":768,"height":475,"filesize":436633,"mime_type":"image\/png","source_url":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/howardletter-768x475.png"},"twentyseventeen-thumbnail-avatar":{"file":"howardletter-100x100.png","width":100,"height":100,"filesize":15685,"mime_type":"image\/png","source_url":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/howardletter-100x100.png"},"full":{"file":"howardletter.png","width":1497,"height":925,"mime_type":"image\/png","source_url":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/howardletter.png"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0","keywords":[]}},"post":446,"source_url":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/howardletter.png","filename":"howardletter.png","filesize":2144056,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/attachment"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5100"}],"wp:attached-to":[{"embeddable":true,"post_type":"page","id":446,"href":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}