{"id":2692,"date":"2014-02-21T15:28:17","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T15:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/culver\/?p=2511"},"modified":"2014-02-21T15:28:17","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T15:28:17","slug":"i-feel-rather-certain-that-i-shall-get-home-this-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/2014\/02\/21\/i-feel-rather-certain-that-i-shall-get-home-this-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"I feel rather certain that I shall get home this Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Joseph<\/a><\/p>\n

Head Qrs., 1st Brig., 1st Div., 11th A. C.
\nNashville, Febry. 21st 1864
\nMy Dear Wife<\/p>\n

I recd. two letters from you yesterday evening, both mailed on the 12th, but one written on the 6th & 7th & the other on the 12th.1<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0I am happy to learn that you enjoy such good health. I will not undertake to answer the questions you have asked, for I feel rather certain that I shall get home this Spring. If not, I will telegraph for you.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you get an opportunity to see Thomas Hill, ask him what he can do to assist me.2<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0The money of Tom Smith’s & Joe Shellebarger’s that I expected to borrow is in his hands.3<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

Mrs. Harrison will be here this evening; the Col. recd. a dispatch from her to-day. My going home will be delayed on Mitchel’s account.4<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0He has sent in an application for leave to go home & get married. I will cheerfully wait on him. I think he is more nervous about it than I was. He will probably bring his bride here.<\/p>\n

I was at church to-day & heard a very good sermon. It was late when we got back, & now it is mail time & my letter very brief. I have been almost tempted to telegraph for you & give up the idea of getting home. I am afraid by the time Jim returns, which will be full one month, we will have marching orders. If I succeed in being sent for the instruments, it will not interfere with my getting a leave of absence next fall, but to get a leave of absence now would prevent it.<\/p>\n

If I do not get home, I will write in full about the matters of which you write. Hoskins will be home next week; I will send by him. He is ordered to Chicago to appear against C. J. Beattie.5<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

You want me to tell you the next prettiest name to Mary. For dark eyes & dark hair, brunnette, I like Ellen, & for light hair & complexion, Jennie.6<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0Give my love to all. I must close. I hope to get home. May God bless you.<\/p>\n

Your Affect. Husband
\nJ. F. Culver<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Mary Culver’s letters of February 7 & 12 are missing from the Culver Collection.<\/li>\n
  2. Thomas Hill was a 43-year-old Pontiac Township farmer. In 1860 he valued his real estate at $13,000, his personal estate at $1,400, and lived with his wife, Mary, and four children. One of his four farm hands had been Chris Yetter. Eighth Census, Livingston County, State of Illinois, NA.<\/li>\n
  3. Joseph Shellenbarger, a 19-year-old fruit tree agent, was mustered into service on Sept. 8, 1862, as a private in Company A, 129th Illinois. Private Shellenbarger died in the brigade hospital on March 31, 1864, at Wauhatchie of pneumonia. Thomas R. Smith, a 23-year-old farmer, was mustered into service on Sept. 8, 1862, as a private in Company A, 129th Illinois. Private Smith was hospitalized at Quincy, Ill., with wounds to the left arm received at New Hope Church, Ga., May 27. 1864. He received a medical discharge on May 18, 1865. Compiled Service Records of Union Soldiers, NA.<\/li>\n
  4. Adjutant Mitchell of Harrison’s staff was granted a 10-day leave on February 19, 1864, “to attend to personal business” in Bloomington, Ind. Ibid.<\/li>\n
  5. Charles J. Beattie, a Livingston County lawyer, had been indicted for forgery in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Ibid.<\/li>\n
  6. Mary Culver had written J.F.C. of her hope that their next child would be a girl and had asked his preference for a name.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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