{"id":1241,"date":"2013-01-07T13:00:54","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T13:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/culver\/?p=2097"},"modified":"2013-01-07T13:00:54","modified_gmt":"2013-01-07T13:00:54","slug":"today-i-recd-the-letters-brought-by-seymour-bennet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/2013\/01\/07\/today-i-recd-the-letters-brought-by-seymour-bennet\/","title":{"rendered":"Today I rec\u2019d the letters brought by Seymour Bennet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/culver\/?attachment_id=2100\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2100\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2100\" title=\"Joseph Culver Letter, January 7, 1863, Page 1\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/culver\/files\/2013\/01\/Joseph-Culver-Letter-January-7-1863-Page-1-187x300.jpg\" alt=\"Joseph Culver Letter, January 7, 1863, Page 1\" width=\"187\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Pontiac Ill. Jan. 7th 1863<\/p>\n<p>My Dear Husband<\/p>\n<p>Today I rec&#8217;d the letters brought by Seymour Bennet. You may be sure I was happy to get them &amp; I hope ere this some of mine have reached you As Bennet got through safely I presume Maples will start immediately I will see him tomorrow &amp; ascertain I mailed you a letter yesterday. I told you there that baby &amp; I are well I am still at Maggies &amp; will probably go home saturday There are no new cases of Small Pox &amp; we hope the worst is over There have been but three deaths One was Fred Foster the others I was not acquainted with one was an old man in the country &amp; the other used to work for Morris Johnson he died in that little house where where Custer lived Jonnie has gone to Chicago I do not know how long he will stay, he has written for transportation &amp; does not know why he does not get it the last letter he had from Capt Miller he offered him a discharge if it were proven that he was not able to go. He is anxious to be gone We are very busy preparing for the Christmas Tree I am knitting four pairs of mittens making half a dozen needlebacks half a dozen plum baskets &amp; braiding a pair of slippers for Mr. Fisher Emma Mac, is making Mr. Strevells Mr. Benton is going to town &amp; I must close<\/p>\n<p>God bless you Accept much love from your wife &amp; baby<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">Mary M Culver<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pontiac Ill. Jan. 7th 1863 My Dear Husband Today I rec&rsquo;d the letters brought by Seymour Bennet. You may be sure I was happy to get them &amp; I hope ere this some of mine have reached you As Bennet &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/culver\/1863\/01-07\/\">Continue reading <span>&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1299,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions\/1299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}