{"id":2052,"date":"2013-10-15T13:00:21","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T13:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/culver\/?p=1629"},"modified":"2013-10-15T13:00:21","modified_gmt":"2013-10-15T13:00:21","slug":"i-do-feel-sadly-disappointed-and-very-uneasy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/2013\/10\/15\/i-do-feel-sadly-disappointed-and-very-uneasy\/","title":{"rendered":"I do feel sadly disappointed and very uneasy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/culver\/1863\/10-15-2\/attachment\/joseph-culver-letter-october-15-1863-page-1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1631\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1631\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/culver\/files\/2012\/07\/Joseph-Culver-Letter-October-15-1863-Page-1-239x300.jpg\" alt=\"Joseph Culver Letter, October 15, 1863, Page 1\" width=\"239\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thursday, Octr. 15th 1863<\/p>\n<p>Dear Wife<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately I have recd. no letter to-day. I have been working on some Ordnance reports, trying to keep my mind engaged but with little effect. I do feel sadly disappointed and very uneasy. I feel assured, however, that had anything serious happened you would have telegraphed to me, yet I cannot account for this long silence.<span id=\"more-1629\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I very much fear that I shall be sent out on train guard to-night or in the morning, &amp; thus two or three days more will elapse before I hear from you &amp; Frankie. It is very probable, but I will hope for better things. I felt so certain that I should hear from you every day. I know you must be almost worn out with care &amp; watching [over Frankie]. May God give you health and strength.<\/p>\n<p>The papers you sent me were recd. yesterday, mailed the 8th. I think the letter sent with them must have miscarried. My health is good. It has quit raining but is still very muddy. I cannot compose myself to write much. Give my love to all. Kiss Frankie for me. I earnestly hope he may be better.<\/p>\n<p>May God bless &amp; Keep you both.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">Your affect. Husband<br \/>\nJ. F. Culver<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, Octr. 15th 1863 Dear Wife Unfortunately I have recd. no letter to-day. I have been working on some Ordnance reports, trying to keep my mind engaged but with little effect. I do feel sadly disappointed and very uneasy. I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/culver\/1863\/10-15-2\/\">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\/2052"}],"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=2052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}