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10-18-1861 p1 William Fisher Letter.
\nWashington, D.C. Oct 18th, 1861 [Friday]<\/p>\n

Dear Father
\n\t\tI received yours of the 16th a few moments ago.<\/p>\n

\tYou spoke of seeing Judge Houston in Georgetown and that he said he saw me in Washington. I don\u2019t remember seeing him. He might have seen me, but I don\u2019t think he spoke to me. I think if he had, I\u2019d have known him. I saw him in Dover and, I think if I\u2019d have seen him here, I\u2019d have remembered him. <\/p>\n

\tI see so many men (officers principally) that I\u2019ve been introduced to, that I can\u2019t recognize them when I see them again or (rather), I can\u2019t remember their names. I know that I\u2019ve seen them before, and have been introduced, but I can\u2019t recall their names.<\/p>\n

\tSo probably Judge Houston saw me and spoke to me. But if he did, I didn\u2019t recognize him.<\/p>\n

You want to know how I stand in regard to money matters. You know I had fifty dollars when I left home. It took about $15 to get to Washington, plus boarding while I was here. The first week cost me about $10.00. To make it clear, I\u2019ve spent about $10.00 since I\u2019ve been here. I\u2019ve got about fifty now. I receive $10 the first of October as pay. I\u2019ve had a great many things to get (blankets, haversacks and several other things).<\/p>\n

We are getting ready to go into the field next week. If I like and nothing happens I shall receive $10 or so at the end of this month.<\/p>\n"},"alt_text":"","media_type":"image","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","media_details":{"width":2273,"height":2940,"file":"10-18-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter.jpg","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"10-18-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-150x150.jpg","width":150,"height":150,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/10-18-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-150x150.jpg"},"medium":{"file":"10-18-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-232x300.jpg","width":232,"height":300,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/10-18-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-232x300.jpg"},"medium_large":{"file":"10-18-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-768x993.jpg","width":768,"height":993,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/10-18-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-768x993.jpg"},"large":{"file":"10-18-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-1546x2000.jpg","width":1546,"height":2000,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/10-18-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-1546x2000.jpg"},"post-thumbnail":{"file":"10-18-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-300x300.jpg","width":300,"height":300,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/10-18-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-300x300.jpg"},"post_thumbnail":{"file":"10-18-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-150x150.jpg","width":150,"height":150,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/10-18-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-150x150.jpg"},"single-post-thumbnail":{"file":"10-18-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-150x150.jpg","width":150,"height":150,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/10-18-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-150x150.jpg"},"home-post-thumbnail":{"file":"10-18-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-200x200.jpg","width":200,"height":200,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/10-18-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-200x200.jpg"},"full":{"file":"10-18-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter.jpg","width":2273,"height":2940,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/10-18-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1","keywords":[]}},"post":null,"source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/10-18-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter.jpg","filename":"10-18-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter.jpg","filesize":2087973,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/attachment"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8478"}]}}