{"id":1759,"date":"2013-08-01T13:00:56","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T13:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/culver\/?p=2182"},"modified":"2013-08-01T13:00:56","modified_gmt":"2013-08-01T13:00:56","slug":"your-letter-containing-20-arrived-duly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/2013\/08\/01\/your-letter-containing-20-arrived-duly\/","title":{"rendered":"Your letter containing $20 arrived duly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/culver\/?attachment_id=2184\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2184\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2184\" title=\"Joseph Culver Letter, August 1, 1863, Page 1\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/culver\/files\/2012\/09\/Joseph-Culver-Letter-August-1-1863-Page-1-187x300.jpg\" alt=\"Joseph Culver Letter, August 1, 1863, Page 1\" width=\"187\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Camp near Shelbyville, Tenn.<br \/>\n1st August 1863.<\/p>\n<p>Dear Brother Frank:<\/p>\n<p>Yours of date 29 Ult is at hand. Your letter containing $20 arrived duly, and its receipt was acknowledged the same day of its arrival.<\/p>\n<p>I am glad to hear from our folks. I hope Mollie will soon entirely recover her indisposition I have not heard from home directly since 13th May. The mails or something els are very irregular. Untill very recently, I reported to headquarters at home about twice a week. But I&#8217;m not writing letters now &#8220;so much as I was.&#8221; It don&#8217;t pay. <span id=\"more-2182\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>My health is not so good since our stay here, as it usually is. I always feel better when we are on the move. For the benefit of my health I am trying to get a transfer to the cavalry arm of the service.<\/p>\n<p>No news here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Affectionately your Brother<br \/>\nW J Murphy<br \/>\nBattery &#8220;M&#8221; 1st Ill. Arty.<br \/>\nShelbyville Tenn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Camp near Shelbyville, Tenn. 1st August 1863. Dear Brother Frank: Yours of date 29 Ult is at hand. Your letter containing $20 arrived duly, and its receipt was acknowledged the same day of its arrival. I am glad to hear &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/culver\/1863\/08-01\/\">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\/1759"}],"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=1759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}