{"id":2780,"date":"2014-03-22T13:00:18","date_gmt":"2014-03-22T13:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/culver\/?p=2607"},"modified":"2014-03-22T13:00:18","modified_gmt":"2014-03-22T13:00:18","slug":"i-would-have-written-to-you-as-soon-as-i-got-yours-but-i-expected-to-leave-here-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/2014\/03\/22\/i-would-have-written-to-you-as-soon-as-i-got-yours-but-i-expected-to-leave-here-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"I would have written to you as soon as I got yours but I expected to leave here soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/culver\/?attachment_id=2608\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2608\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2608\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/culver\/files\/2012\/10\/Joseph-Culver-Letter-March-22-1864-Page-1-183x300.jpg\" alt=\"Joseph Culver Letter, March 22, 1864, Page 1\" width=\"183\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Camp Yates Springfield<br \/>\nMarch 22nd, 1864<br \/>\nDear Sister Mary<\/p>\n<p>Yours of the 2nd inst I received in due season and was glad to hear from you. I would have written to you as soon as I got it but I expected to leave here soon and thought I wait and write when I got to another place They have sent away the Inft and Cav. recruits and I think the Art will leave soon, but I have thought so for some time. I am the only one for Battery &#8220;M&#8221; that is here and I would rather be with it than here. <span id=\"more-2607\"><\/span>Have you heard from Jack lately. I have not received a letter from him for about four months. I am not sure that I will stay here this week, but may possibly and I wish you would send any letters that are at Pontiac for me. I have not received but one letter since I enlisted and that was yours. I would be a treat if I could receive a bundle of them this week.<\/p>\n<p>The weather has been cold here for a few days past, but it is getting warmer now and begins to look like spring. I suppose it is quite warm down in Dixie now. Camp Yates is situated one mile west of Springfield It is a pretty nice place for a camp. and we have good water The Governors mansion is just a little way from camp as my knee does not make a very good writing desk I will close for the present Write by return mail. and address.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">S.A. Murphy<br \/>\nBattery &#8220;M&#8221; 1st Ill Art.<br \/>\nCamp Yates.<br \/>\nSpringfield Ills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Camp Yates Springfield March 22nd, 1864 Dear Sister Mary Yours of the 2nd inst I received in due season and was glad to hear from you. I would have written to you as soon as I got it but I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/culver\/1864\/03-22\/\">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\/2780"}],"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=2780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}