Letter 4

June 10^th, 1864 Davenport, Illinois

Dear Wife,

Here I am again in God’s World. Got here an hour or more ago. Left Washington D. C. on _______to Baltimore at ______(Burlington (maybe)) _____ and stayed till morning. Then got to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania the next A.M. We passed nearby the Ohio on Thursday night and got to Chicago in the P.M. We rode all night in Illinois and got here in Davenport, Iowa at about noon, where we expect to stop 3 or 4 days, later in letter father said the boys all feel might good to get home again. I have had quite a tramp since last fall. Through Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia,

Washington D.C., Maryland, Ohio, and back to Iowa. October 16^th, 1864 Chicago April 16^th, 1865 North Carolina Camp in the woods.