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Oct 7th 1861 [Monday]<\/p>\n<p>Dear Father:<\/p>\n<p>I wrote you a letter a few days ago but I haven\u2019t received an answer to it.  I concluded you did not get it. <\/p>\n<p>I supposed you would be uneasy about me as you expected me to have to go to Missouri and as that is a very disagreeable place at present I thought probably you would think I\u2019d been taken prisoner or killed but as good luck would have it, I didn\u2019t  have to go to Missouri.<\/p>\n<p>When I came here I learned that the company [G, 10th US Infantry] that I belong to was in Utah and were about to be ordered in.  So they put me on temp duty under the Provost Marshall. <\/p>\n<p>Captain Layton came out here the same day I did.  He got his commission and orders (I suppose) and departed next day for Boston.  He is in<\/p>\n"},"alt_text":"","media_type":"image","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","media_details":{"width":1588,"height":2339,"file":"10-7-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter.jpg","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"10-7-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-150x150.jpg","width":150,"height":150,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/10-7-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-150x150.jpg"},"medium":{"file":"10-7-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-204x300.jpg","width":204,"height":300,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/10-7-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-204x300.jpg"},"medium_large":{"file":"10-7-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-768x1131.jpg","width":768,"height":1131,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/10-7-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-768x1131.jpg"},"large":{"file":"10-7-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-1358x2000.jpg","width":1358,"height":2000,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/10-7-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-1358x2000.jpg"},"post-thumbnail":{"file":"10-7-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-300x300.jpg","width":300,"height":300,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/10-7-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-300x300.jpg"},"post_thumbnail":{"file":"10-7-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-150x150.jpg","width":150,"height":150,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/10-7-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-150x150.jpg"},"single-post-thumbnail":{"file":"10-7-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-150x150.jpg","width":150,"height":150,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/10-7-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-150x150.jpg"},"home-post-thumbnail":{"file":"10-7-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-200x200.jpg","width":200,"height":200,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/10-7-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter-200x200.jpg"},"full":{"file":"10-7-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter.jpg","width":1588,"height":2339,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/10-7-1861-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\/10-7-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter.jpg","filename":"10-7-1861-p1-William-Fisher-Letter.jpg","filesize":995616,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8488","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=8488"}]}}