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Kankaku City, March 28 1864

My dear good Wife

   I wrote you a letter in past at La Porte Saturday evening & finished it yesterday at Chicago & mailed it to you at Chicago.  I came here last night.  Reached this place about 12 at night.  I shall go on to Chibansi this morning.  I wrote you that it was very cold in Chicago yesterday.  It was the lake winds that made is so for it is warm here.  It rained early this morning & will be showery all day.  It was terribly mudy in La Porte when I left.  I never say it worse but there is no mud here as the foundation on which the city is built is rock.  I presume I shall find mud enough in the country here.  I am not well this morning at all either the lake winds in Chicago, or the villianous coffee I have had since I left La Porte, or the jolting of the cars has nearly [nasd] me up & brought on quite a fever.  Mrs. Fox made excellent coffee but the coffee I got at the Adams House, also what I got here this morning was like that we got as the