{"id":3070,"date":"2014-08-22T13:00:41","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T13:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/culver\/?p=3067"},"modified":"2014-08-22T13:00:41","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T13:00:41","slug":"yours-of-date-11-aug-has-just-reached-me-and-it-has-lifted-a-load-of-anxiety-from-my-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/2014\/08\/22\/yours-of-date-11-aug-has-just-reached-me-and-it-has-lifted-a-load-of-anxiety-from-my-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Yours of date 11 Aug. has just reached me, and it has lifted a load of anxiety from my mind"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Joseph<\/a>Hd. Quarters Battery “M” Ist Ill. Artillery.
\nNear Atlanta Ga. 22 Aug. 1864.
\nDear Sister Mollie:<\/p>\n

Yours of date 11 Aug. has just reached me, and it has lifted a load of anxiety from my mind. Untill today I have not heard a word from Sammy since the 26th of last month. He may have written to me. Our mail of late, has been troubled considerably by the rebel cavalry, and I hope all the letters that have been mailed to me have not reached me – or more plainly speaking, I hope that more letters have been mailed me, than I have yet received. I had a letter today from William S. Murphy. It is quite an affectionate and patriotic missive. He did not say anything about his father’s family. I know but little of them. How are they doing? Your letter is full of news and gratifies me more than it would to “go home and get married.” I do not write to the “girls” any more. You see I am out of note paper, have nothing but this large foolscap – and do not expect to have anything better for one or two years to come – and of course I would not shock their propriety by sending them a letter written on this vulgar sort of paper.<\/span><\/p>\n

I think it is no pleasure to Jennie Guthrie to have you speak of me to her, therefore I would recommend that you avoid it in future. We used to correspond, but we don’t now. I don’t think I ever saw Robert Kelly, and yet the name sounds wonderfully familiar. Success to him in all his matrimonial enterprises. I guess I had better say something like that and let it go, hadn’t I? or shall I get a leave of absence and go home and call him out. There would be a taste of romance in this latter course! and I think it would please the girls beyond measure, to have us poor deluded swains shootings one an other’s heads off for their sakes. Yes, it wood please them too well – guess I shant do it. And it would detract from the dignity of us ‘Lords of Creation to fight about women. How does Jennie look now? What sort of a girl is she? I do not know her. As much as I have seen her and as much as I have been in her company, I am not well acquainted with her. I was not aware that Thomas did not take a share that boat, as he contemplated doing. I have not heard from him in some time – in a long time. I will write to him and see how he is getting along. I have not seen Frank for three weeks, but heard from him a few days ago. He was well.<\/p>\n

With love, Mollie, Goodbye. Write me often.<\/p>\n

Affectionately Johnie.
\nLieut Battery “M” 1st Ill. Artillery
\n4 Army Corps Dept. Cumberland<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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