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10-22-1861 p1 William Fisher Letter.<\/p>\n

Washington, D.C. Oct 22nd 1861 [Tuesday]<\/p>\n

Dear father:<\/p>\n

\tYours and George\u2019s of 19th was received a few moments ago, and as I have nothing to do, and its raining so hard that I can\u2019t go out, I will answer your inquiries at once.<\/p>\n

\t The Washington news is no news at all. We have reports almost every day of battles and skirmishes just beyond the [Potomac] river, night before last. The train didn\u2019t get in at the usual time and it was surmised that Beauregard had crossed over into Maryland, tore up the Rail Road and had defeated Banks and had possession of Baltimore. But of course it was all false.<\/p>\n

\t Our forces made an advance yesterday. Gen. Stone and Colonel Baker was killed, this is true.<\/p>\n

\tAbout the fleet that was reported out up at New Orleans is all a humbug. It was taken from Southern papers in the first place.<\/p>\n

\tThe tenth came in from Utah and arrived here, night before last 20, I\u2019m expecting an order to join it.<\/p>\n

\t All the officers here are getting ready to go into camp.<\/p>\n

\t George says he have received three letters from you since you have been in Washington. I think this is the fifth one I have written. I wrote one on Sunday last and also one to Fred Callaway.<\/p>\n

\t George says Bill Hinson enlisted and then they refused him<\/p>\n"},"alt_text":"","media_type":"image","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","media_details":{"width":2286,"height":2940,"file":"10-22-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter.jpg","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"10-22-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-150x150.jpg","width":150,"height":150,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/10-22-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-150x150.jpg"},"medium":{"file":"10-22-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-233x300.jpg","width":233,"height":300,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/10-22-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-233x300.jpg"},"medium_large":{"file":"10-22-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-768x988.jpg","width":768,"height":988,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/10-22-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-768x988.jpg"},"large":{"file":"10-22-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-1555x2000.jpg","width":1555,"height":2000,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/10-22-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-1555x2000.jpg"},"post-thumbnail":{"file":"10-22-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-300x300.jpg","width":300,"height":300,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/10-22-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-300x300.jpg"},"post_thumbnail":{"file":"10-22-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-150x150.jpg","width":150,"height":150,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/10-22-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-150x150.jpg"},"single-post-thumbnail":{"file":"10-22-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-150x150.jpg","width":150,"height":150,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/10-22-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-150x150.jpg"},"home-post-thumbnail":{"file":"10-22-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-200x200.jpg","width":200,"height":200,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/10-22-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-200x200.jpg"},"full":{"file":"10-22-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter.jpg","width":2286,"height":2940,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/10-22-1861-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\/10-22-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter.jpg","filename":"10-22-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter.jpg","filesize":1752554,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8480","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=8480"}]}}