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10-31-1861 p1 William Fisher Letter.<\/p>\n

Washington, D.C. Oct 31st 1861 [Thursday]<\/p>\n

Dear Father<\/p>\n

\tI received you letter of 18th this morning.<\/p>\n

\tThe Laurel, Delaware news is news indeed for I never heard of it before. I think I had better correspond with some of the inhabitants of Laurel to tell me the news. <\/p>\n

\tI think Uncle John\u2019s boys might write to me. I wrote to them about ten days ago and haven\u2019t received an answer yet. They might not have received it but if they haven\u2019t they might write. I suppose they know where I\u2019m stationed and if they are as interested in the War as you write, I think they would write to me and ask what they want to know about the looks of the Generals and the general appearance of the Army per se.<\/p>\n

\tYou write that you are going to send Sis to Philadelphia to some school but you didn\u2019t write what school it was.<\/p>\n

\tI think I should be able to send one hundred dollars home next month. With this months pay, I have to get an overcoat, which will cost forty dollars, and a heavy suit of common uniform for everyday winter wear besides camp beds and other things.<\/p>\n

\tWe are all ready (the soldiers) to go into camp and<\/p>\n"},"alt_text":"","media_type":"image","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","media_details":{"width":2409,"height":3022,"file":"10-31-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter.jpg","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"10-31-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-150x150.jpg","width":150,"height":150,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/10-31-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-150x150.jpg"},"medium":{"file":"10-31-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-239x300.jpg","width":239,"height":300,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/10-31-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-239x300.jpg"},"medium_large":{"file":"10-31-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-768x963.jpg","width":768,"height":963,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/10-31-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-768x963.jpg"},"large":{"file":"10-31-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-1594x2000.jpg","width":1594,"height":2000,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/10-31-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-1594x2000.jpg"},"post-thumbnail":{"file":"10-31-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-300x300.jpg","width":300,"height":300,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/10-31-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-300x300.jpg"},"post_thumbnail":{"file":"10-31-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-150x150.jpg","width":150,"height":150,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/10-31-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-150x150.jpg"},"single-post-thumbnail":{"file":"10-31-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-150x150.jpg","width":150,"height":150,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/10-31-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-150x150.jpg"},"home-post-thumbnail":{"file":"10-31-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-200x200.jpg","width":200,"height":200,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/10-31-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-200x200.jpg"},"full":{"file":"10-31-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter.jpg","width":2409,"height":3022,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/10-31-1861-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\/10-31-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter.jpg","filename":"10-31-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter.jpg","filesize":1986799,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8482","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=8482"}]}}