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La Porte Ind. March 4th 1864

My dear good Wife,

    I have received no letter from you since the one dated Feb 22nd which was one week ago last Monday.  It reached me last Monday morning.  I would be very glad to know to-night just how you & the children are. It has been very beautiful weather here for the past few days but to-night we are having a March snow storm & I presume to-morrow it will be all mud again.  I am getting very homesick here.  I do not like to live here in La Porte.  Perhaps if you & the children were here I might feel different.  I now feel as if the farther I can get away from La Porte the better I shall like it.  These precuring difficulties