We have had no news from Vicksburg since the gunboats ran past, last week, but from the firing that is going on there this morning there must be something of interest going on perhaps more gunboats - We have but little news news of any kind.  I have not yet received your Nos 31 & 32, & none since No 33.  I am verry anxious to hear from you, I want to know Just how you are getting along - whether you have taken a school or not & where & where you are boarding: & how you get to Church & all about how you are enjoying yourself.  I have no doubt but that you will be treated well & kindly if you should board with Mr Robinson - but you know my opinion of him & my sentiments with regard to associations with people of doubtful character.  I would be happy if the memory of the past with regard to him was obliterated from my own mind & from the mind of others.  But memory will never die & the poisoned fangs of envious malice will continue to pierce the privacy of social life.  From my heart I pitty the victim.  We find from a retrospect of the past that in all ages & in every phase of life that life is a warfare against prejudices & passions - The present is no exception to the past, O! my dear wife how I miss your intelligent society, here more than perhaps any other situation in which I could have been placed, here where there is so much that is light & foolish how my heart yearns for the society of home with its charms.  There I confine my thoughts to my own mind, with the exception of the few I catch as they pass & send to you.  What a pleasure it would be to have the quick response from a loved wife.
Let us unite our humble prayers to our Father in Heaven for a spedy reunion & that the necessity may never again ocur to separate minds so congenial.  I look forward to that happy day with confidence - Let us not doubt the kindness of the Being Who has guarded the dangerous paths of an eventful life to each of us.