{"id":1972,"date":"2013-09-16T13:00:46","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T13:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/culver\/?p=1537"},"modified":"2013-09-16T13:00:46","modified_gmt":"2013-09-16T13:00:46","slug":"we-had-rather-a-gloomy-night-of-it-on-picket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/2013\/09\/16\/we-had-rather-a-gloomy-night-of-it-on-picket\/","title":{"rendered":"We had rather a gloomy night of it on picket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/culver\/1863\/09-16\/attachment\/joseph-culver-letter-september-16-1863-page-1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1538\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1538\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/culver\/files\/2012\/07\/Joseph-Culver-Letter-September-16-1863-Page-1-238x300.jpg\" alt=\"Joseph Culver Letter, September 16, 1863, Page 1\" width=\"238\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Head Qrs. Co. &#8220;A&#8221; 129th Regt. Ills. Vol. Intry.<br \/>\nNashville, Tenn., Sept. 16th 1863<\/p>\n<p>My Dear Wife<\/p>\n<p>I rather expected to be greeted on my return this morning with a letter but was disappointed. We had rather a gloomy night of it on picket. It rained very hard &amp; the lightning &amp; thunder was terrific. One house in the vicinity of Camp was struck, but I have heard of no further accident. Nearly all the tents were blown down &amp; many of our things spoiled. My health is quite good.<span id=\"more-1537\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I met [Lt.] Smith this morning for the first time since his return &amp; have been trying to gather news from Pontiac, the most that I learn is that all our friends are well. I fear the people have almost forgotten us. They seem to be very intent upon all matters of business &amp; politics. They may be suddenly awakened some of these days. I shall try &amp; write this evening at length, for the present I must close.<\/p>\n<p>Give my love to all &amp; a kiss to Frankie. Hoping that Our Father in Heaven will keep you,<\/p>\n<p>I am, as ever,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">Your Affect. Husband<br \/>\nJ. F. Culver<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Head Qrs. Co. &ldquo;A&rdquo; 129th Regt. Ills. Vol. Intry. Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 16th 1863 My Dear Wife I rather expected to be greeted on my return this morning with a letter but was disappointed. We had rather a gloomy night &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/culver\/1863\/09-16\/\">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\/1972"}],"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=1972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}