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La Porte, Jan. 19th 1864 My dear good Wife I wrote you yesterday hoping to hear that you all got home Safely without any detentions, but to-day the telegraph brings word of a terrible Snow Storm East, I have just been to the telegraph office to try & learn how far East the Storm Extends, I can only learn that the road along the Lake Shore is blockaded? by the Snow so that no trains arrive at or leave Cleveland to-day, I cannot learn anything of the Storm at Buffalo or East of that point, I know that if the trains made time you ought to have been in Buffalo last Evening & at Springfield unclear this, & I am in hopes that you are ahead of the