{"id":2719,"date":"2014-03-03T17:54:15","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T17:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/culver\/?p=2560"},"modified":"2014-03-03T17:54:15","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T17:54:15","slug":"we-are-as-far-as-cowan-station-at-the-foot-of-the-mountains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/2014\/03\/03\/we-are-as-far-as-cowan-station-at-the-foot-of-the-mountains\/","title":{"rendered":"We are as far as Cowan Station at the foot of the mountains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/culver\/?attachment_id=2561\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2561\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2561\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/culver\/files\/2012\/10\/Joseph-Culver-Letter-March-3-1864-Page-1-188x300.jpg\" alt=\"Joseph Culver Letter, March 3, 1864, Page 1\" width=\"188\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Head Qurs., 1st Brig., 1st Div., 11th A.C.<br \/>\nIn the Field March 3rd 1864<br \/>\nMy Dear Wife<\/p>\n<p>We are as far as Cowan Station at the foot of the mountains;<sup><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/culver\/1864\/03-03\/#footnote_0_2560\" id=\"identifier_0_2560\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"The sky having cleared, the brigade broke camp on March 2 and travelled ten miles, halting after crossing Elk River. On the 3d a similar distance was logged. Grunert, History of the 129th Illinois, pp. 46-47.\">1<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0we will cross to-morrow if nothing happens. We are all well. We will receive no letters till we get to Stevenson, two days more. I shall anticipate a letter there.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you are well. Give my love to all. May our Father in Heaven keep you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">Your Affect. Husband<br \/>\nJ. F. Culver<\/p>\n<ol class=\"footnotes\">\n<li id=\"footnote_0_2560\" class=\"footnote\">The sky having cleared, the brigade broke camp on March 2 and travelled ten miles, halting after crossing Elk River. On the 3d a similar distance was logged. Grunert, History of the 129th Illinois, pp. 46-47.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Head Qurs., 1st Brig., 1st Div., 11th A.C. In the Field March 3rd 1864 My Dear Wife We are as far as Cowan Station at the foot of the mountains;1&nbsp;we will cross to-morrow if nothing happens. We are all well. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/culver\/1864\/03-03\/\">Continue reading <span>&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"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\/2719"}],"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\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}