{"id":3172,"date":"2014-09-19T13:00:29","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T13:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/culver\/?p=3151"},"modified":"2014-09-19T13:00:29","modified_gmt":"2014-09-19T13:00:29","slug":"i-am-very-sorry-to-learn-that-your-health-is-not-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/2014\/09\/19\/i-am-very-sorry-to-learn-that-your-health-is-not-good\/","title":{"rendered":"I am very sorry to learn that your health is not good"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Head Qurs. Co. “A” 129th Regt. Ills. Vols.
\nAtlanta, Ga. Sept. 19th 18641<\/a><\/sup>
\nMy Dear Wife<\/p>\n

Your letters mailed the 9th & 10th were recd. yesterday evening. I am very sorry to learn that your health is not good, but hope it is only a slight attack that will very soon be overcome.<\/span><\/p>\n

I spent most of the day yesterday with Bro. John. Sammy was not at home, & I did not get to see him. Both are in good health.<\/p>\n

It rained nearly all day yesterday, & this morning it is very wet and damp. We have not got our tent fixed up yet, as we did not wish to work on Sabbath. Chris [Yetter] is waiting for me to go with him for lumber,2<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0so I will only write a line to inform you of my good health. To-morrow or next day at farthest I will write you a long letter. Give my love to all. Rumor says the pay master is here; if so, we will know it shortly.<\/p>\n

May Our Father in Heaven bless you & Keep you both in health.<\/p>\n

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

    \n
  1. The 1st Brigade took up the march from the Chattahoochee to Atlanta at 6 A.M. on the 16th, and, crossing the Peachtree Creek battlefield, reached the entrenchments they had occupied in front of the city at 8 o’clock. En route they “passed the graves of the fallen dear comrades, that were ‘sleeping the sleep that knows no waking.’ ” After a halt of several hours, the march was resumed, and the brigade passed through Atlanta, going into camp about one and one-half miles south of the city. After falling out, a number of men visited the abandoned Confederate works. “They were very strong and in their erection every modern invention in the art of war had been added.” On the 17th a suitable campground was selected by Colonel Case, and it was cleared of underbrush and debris. A number of abandoned frame dwellings nearby were razed by the soldiers, and the lumber and shingles used “in erecting tenements.” Grunert, History of the 129th Illinois, pp. 102-04.<\/li>\n
  2. Colonels Case and Flynn on Sunday, the 18th, divided off the camp, assigning each company its area, within which “every four or five men were allotted a space of eight feet in width and twelve feet in length, to enjoy themselves in a glorious and noble style \u2014 in a straight line with the rest of the company.” Ibid., p. 104.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Head Qurs. Co. “A” 129th Regt. Ills. Vols. Atlanta, Ga. Sept. 19th 18641 My Dear Wife Your letters mailed the 9th & 10th were recd. yesterday evening. I am very sorry to learn that your health is not good, but … Continue reading →<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3172"}],"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=3172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3173,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3172\/revisions\/3173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}