{"id":2607,"date":"2014-03-22T08:00:18","date_gmt":"2014-03-22T13:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/culver\/?p=2607"},"modified":"2014-02-25T10:04:28","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T15:04:28","slug":"03-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/culver\/1864\/03-22\/","title":{"rendered":"I would have written to you as soon as I got yours but I expected to leave here soon"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Joseph<\/a>Camp Yates Springfield
\nMarch 22nd, 1864
\nDear Sister Mary<\/p>\n

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 “M” that is here and I would rather be with it than here. 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

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

S.A. Murphy
\nBattery “M” 1st Ill Art.
\nCamp Yates.
\nSpringfield Ills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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