{"id":2526,"date":"2012-06-27T18:18:54","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T18:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/drp\/?p=2526"},"modified":"2012-09-13T16:38:07","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T16:38:07","slug":"letters-from-the-home-front","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/2012\/06\/27\/letters-from-the-home-front\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters from the home front"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2528\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2528\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/u?\/cwd,7650\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2528\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2012\/06\/rigby-300x178.jpg\" alt=\"William T. Rigby | Civil War Diaries and Letters\" width=\"300\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2012\/06\/rigby-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2012\/06\/rigby.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2528\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">William T. Rigby | Civil War Diaries and Letters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>During a war conducted without telephones, Skype, or even reliable mail delivery, Civil War soldiers treasured their letters from home &#8211; and lucky for us, because they kept them all their lives and passed them down through their families to us. William Titus Rigby expresses his gratitude to his correspondents eloquently:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I never received a letter in my life which gave me as much pleasure as these two did. You must remember how we are Situated away from home of course &amp; without any mail for two weeks&#8230; when we are not expecting them comes those messages from home. It is a poor comparison to say they came like &#8220;Sunbeams in a Shower&#8221; It is as though a person completely lost in a dark night Should suddenly recognize the light burning in his own home.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a war conducted without telephones, Skype, or even reliable mail delivery, Civil War soldiers treasured their letters from home &#8211; and lucky for us, because they kept them all their lives and passed them down through their families to us. William Titus Rigby expresses his gratitude to his correspondents eloquently: &#8220;I never received a<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/2012\/06\/27\/letters-from-the-home-front\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Letters from the home front&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2526"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2526"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2700,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2526\/revisions\/2700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2526"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=2526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}