{"id":2677,"date":"2014-02-17T13:00:30","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T13:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/culver\/?p=2485"},"modified":"2014-02-17T13:00:30","modified_gmt":"2014-02-17T13:00:30","slug":"i-am-living-in-the-expectation-of-getting-to-see-you-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/2014\/02\/17\/i-am-living-in-the-expectation-of-getting-to-see-you-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"I am living in the expectation of getting to see you soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/culver\/?attachment_id=2486\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2486\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2486\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/culver\/files\/2012\/10\/Joseph-Culver-Letter-February-17-1864-Page-1-184x300.jpg\" alt=\"Joseph Culver Letter, February 17, 1864, Page 1\" width=\"184\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Head Qrs. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 11th A.C.<br \/>\nNashville Febry. 17th 1864<br \/>\nMy Dear Wife<\/p>\n<p>I wrote to you last night, enclosing Pass &amp; twenty dollars, also in a letter a few days previous I enclosed an order on Wm. B. Lyon for $30. I hope they will arrive safe.<\/p>\n<p>I feel very well to-night. Col. Harrison telegraphed his wife to start on Friday, so that she will be here Saturday evening [the 20th].<\/p>\n<p>I am living in the expectation of getting to see you soon. All is prospering finely. We are all well.<span id=\"more-2485\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I expect a letter to-morrow certain. I have recd. but three since you returned, &amp; one of them was from Decatur. It is midnight. We had [Brigade] school to-night till after ten, &amp; then I had a letter to write for Davy Jones to his little boy.<sup><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/culver\/1864\/02-17\/#footnote_0_2485\" id=\"identifier_0_2485\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"David Jones, a 37-year-old miner, was mustered into service on Sept. 8, 1862, as a private in Company A, 129th Illinois. Private Jones died at Chesterfield Courthouse, S.C., on March 3, 1865, of a congestive chill. Compiled Service Records of Union Soldiers, NA.\">1<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0Enclosed you will find his Photograph. I have not been in camp since day before yesterday. Good night. May God bless you. Write often to<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">Your Affect. Husband<br \/>\nJ. F. Culver<\/p>\n<ol class=\"footnotes\">\n<li id=\"footnote_0_2485\" class=\"footnote\">David Jones, a 37-year-old miner, was mustered into service on Sept. 8, 1862, as a private in Company A, 129th Illinois. Private Jones died at Chesterfield Courthouse, S.C., on March 3, 1865, of a congestive chill. Compiled Service Records of Union Soldiers, NA.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Head Qrs. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 11th A.C. Nashville Febry. 17th 1864 My Dear Wife I wrote to you last night, enclosing Pass &amp; twenty dollars, also in a letter a few days previous I enclosed an order on Wm. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/culver\/1864\/02-17\/\">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\/2677"}],"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=2677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}