{"id":1030,"date":"2013-01-08T08:00:37","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T13:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/culver\/?p=1030"},"modified":"2014-02-25T10:08:16","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T15:08:16","slug":"01-08","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/culver\/1863\/01-08\/","title":{"rendered":"The first mail from the North reached us yesterday evening but brought no news from Pontiac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/culver\/1863\/01-08\/attachment\/joseph-culver-letter-january-8-1863-page-1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1031\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1031\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/culver\/files\/2012\/07\/Joseph-Culver-Letter-January-8-1863-Page-1-237x300.jpg\" alt=\"Joseph Culver Letter, January 8, 1863, Page 1\" width=\"237\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/culver\/files\/2012\/07\/Joseph-Culver-Letter-January-8-1863-Page-1-237x300.jpg 237w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/culver\/files\/2012\/07\/Joseph-Culver-Letter-January-8-1863-Page-1-811x1024.jpg 811w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/culver\/files\/2012\/07\/Joseph-Culver-Letter-January-8-1863-Page-1.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 237px) 100vw, 237px\" \/><\/a>[google-map-v3 width=&#8221;400&#8243; height=&#8221;300&#8243; zoom=&#8221;12&#8243; maptype=&#8221;hybrid&#8221; mapalign=&#8221;right&#8221; directionhint=&#8221;false&#8221; language=&#8221;default&#8221; poweredby=&#8221;false&#8221; maptypecontrol=&#8221;false&#8221; pancontrol=&#8221;false&#8221; zoomcontrol=&#8221;true&#8221; scalecontrol=&#8221;falso&#8221; streetviewcontrol=&#8221;false&#8221; scrollwheelcontrol=&#8221;false&#8221; \u00a0addmarkermashupbubble=&#8221;false&#8221; addmarkerlist=&#8221;36.63234; -86.539994{}1-default.png&#8221; bubbleautopan=&#8221;true&#8221; showbike=&#8221;false&#8221; showtraffic=&#8221;false&#8221; showpanoramio=&#8221;false&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>Mitchellsville, Tenn., Jan. 8th 1862<\/p>\n<p>My dear Wife<\/p>\n<p>The first mail from the North reached us yesterday evening but brought no news from Pontiac. I recd. a letter from Cousin Lucy Dunmire of Burbank, Ohio, being the extent of my mail matter. ((Cousin Lucy Dunmire was a niece of Martha Dunmire Culver, J.F.C.&#8217;s mother.)) I hope, however, by to-day&#8217;s mail to hear from you.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I am quite well, &amp; we are doing well. I sent a letter yesterday by a gentleman going to Louisville to be mailed, &amp; hope you will receive all I have written in due time.<\/p>\n<p>Hoping that God has blessed you all with health and happiness, &amp; with much love to all, I subscribe myself in haste. Dear Mary, as ever,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">Your Affect. Husband<br \/>\nJ. F. Culver<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[google-map-v3 width=&#8221;400&#8243; height=&#8221;300&#8243; zoom=&#8221;12&#8243; maptype=&#8221;hybrid&#8221; mapalign=&#8221;right&#8221; directionhint=&#8221;false&#8221; language=&#8221;default&#8221; poweredby=&#8221;false&#8221; maptypecontrol=&#8221;false&#8221; pancontrol=&#8221;false&#8221; zoomcontrol=&#8221;true&#8221; scalecontrol=&#8221;falso&#8221; streetviewcontrol=&#8221;false&#8221; scrollwheelcontrol=&#8221;false&#8221; \u00a0addmarkermashupbubble=&#8221;false&#8221; addmarkerlist=&#8221;36.63234; -86.539994{}1-default.png&#8221; bubbleautopan=&#8221;true&#8221; showbike=&#8221;false&#8221; showtraffic=&#8221;false&#8221; showpanoramio=&#8221;false&#8221;] Mitchellsville, Tenn., Jan. 8th 1862 My dear Wife The first mail from the North reached us yesterday evening &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/culver\/1863\/01-08\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-7","category-january-1863"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/culver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/culver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/culver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/culver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/culver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1030"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/culver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3558,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/culver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions\/3558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/culver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/culver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/culver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}