{"id":413,"date":"2009-09-06T10:51:45","date_gmt":"2009-09-06T15:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/blog\/?p=413"},"modified":"2010-06-16T08:38:12","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T13:38:12","slug":"civil-war-letters-%e2%80%93-university-of-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2009\/09\/06\/civil-war-letters-%e2%80%93-university-of-washington\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil War Letters \u2013 University of Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2009\/09\/civilwar_letters_uw1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-414\" title=\"civilwar_letters_uw1\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2009\/09\/civilwar_letters_uw1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2009\/09\/civilwar_letters_uw1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2009\/09\/civilwar_letters_uw1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2009\/09\/civilwar_letters_uw1.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>The University of Washington offers <a href=\"http:\/\/content.lib.washington.edu\/civilwarweb\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">a great collection<\/a> of Civil War letters that provide\u00a0interesting accounts on a wide range of topics. The collection\u00a0contains\u00a0correspondence from both Union and Confederate soldiers, including a description of General Robert E. Lee\u2019s surrender. \u201cIt all seems like a dream,\u201d as <a href=\"http:\/\/content.lib.washington.edu\/cdm4\/results.php?CISOOP1=all&amp;CISOBOX1=Accession%20No.%204898-1&amp;CISOFIELD1=source&amp;CISOOP2=exact&amp;CISOBOX2=&amp;CISOFIELD2=author&amp;CISOOP3=any&amp;CISOBOX3=&amp;CISOFIELD3=creato&amp;CISOOP4=none&amp;CISOBOX4=&amp;CISOFIELD4=edit&amp;CISOROOT=\/civilwar\" target=\"_blank\">M. Adelaide Smith<\/a> explained to his \u201cdear friends\u201d back in Michigan. Another interesting letter is one<a href=\"http:\/\/content.lib.washington.edu\/cdm4\/results.php?CISOOP1=all&amp;CISOBOX1=Accession%20No.%2080-1&amp;CISOFIELD1=source&amp;CISOOP2=exact&amp;CISOBOX2=&amp;CISOFIELD2=author&amp;CISOOP3=any&amp;CISOBOX3=&amp;CISOFIELD3=creato&amp;CISOOP4=none&amp;CISOBOX4=&amp;CISOFIELD4=edit&amp;CISOROOT=\/civilwar\" target=\"_blank\"> General Lee\u2019s wife<\/a> wrote to Union General Sanford in late May 1861, in which she complained about the conduct of northern troops who occupied her home in northern Virginia. An overview of all the material in this collection<a href=\"http:\/\/content.lib.washington.edu\/civilwarweb\/collections.html\" target=\"_blank\"> is available<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Washington offers a great collection of Civil War letters that provide\u00a0interesting accounts on a wide range of topics. The collection\u00a0contains\u00a0correspondence from both Union and Confederate soldiers, including a description of General Robert E. Lee\u2019s surrender. \u201cIt all seems like a dream,\u201d as M. Adelaide Smith explained to his \u201cdear friends\u201d back in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,172],"tags":[161],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war-1861-1865","category-letters-diaries","tag-battles-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1874,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions\/1874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}