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11-6-1861 p1 William Fisher Letter.<\/p>\n

Washington, D.C. Nov. 6th 1861 [Wednesday]<\/p>\n

Dear Father & Aunt Angie<\/p>\n

\tI received yours this morning, dated Nov 4th, and Aunt Angie\u2019s of Oct 31st. <\/p>\n

\t You write that you haven\u2019t received the letter I wrote on the 20th Oct. and Fred Callaway hasn\u2019t received his. If you go to Uncle John\u2019s any time soon, tell the boys that I shall expect the next writing to be done by them.<\/p>\n

I expect we shall move over into Virginia very soon. General Scott has resigned and general McClelland, it is thought, will put the Regulars into Virginia. General Scott\u2019s plan was to keep us as a reserve in case of another disaster like that at 1st Bull Run.<\/p>\n

I should like to send my overcoat home, if I could fix upon any plan by which I could get it there. It\u2019s of no use to me here. It\u2019s more in the way than anything else. So I think I\u2019ll send it home by Adams Express, but I will let you know by my next letter what I have concluded to do.<\/p>\n

I guess you have got your wheat sown and are getting in your corn. <\/p>\n

We have it rather cool today. We had a very heavy rain last night.<\/p>\n"},"alt_text":"","media_type":"image","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","media_details":{"width":2286,"height":2940,"file":"11-6-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter.jpg","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"11-6-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-150x150.jpg","width":150,"height":150,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/11-6-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-150x150.jpg"},"medium":{"file":"11-6-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-233x300.jpg","width":233,"height":300,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/11-6-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-233x300.jpg"},"medium_large":{"file":"11-6-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-768x988.jpg","width":768,"height":988,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/11-6-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-768x988.jpg"},"large":{"file":"11-6-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-1555x2000.jpg","width":1555,"height":2000,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/11-6-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-1555x2000.jpg"},"post-thumbnail":{"file":"11-6-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-300x300.jpg","width":300,"height":300,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/11-6-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-300x300.jpg"},"post_thumbnail":{"file":"11-6-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-150x150.jpg","width":150,"height":150,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/11-6-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-150x150.jpg"},"single-post-thumbnail":{"file":"11-6-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-150x150.jpg","width":150,"height":150,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/11-6-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-150x150.jpg"},"home-post-thumbnail":{"file":"11-6-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-200x200.jpg","width":200,"height":200,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/11-6-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-200x200.jpg"},"full":{"file":"11-6-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter.jpg","width":2286,"height":2940,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/11-6-1861-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\/11-6-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter.jpg","filename":"11-6-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter.jpg","filesize":1854482,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8484","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=8484"}]}}