I will write again as soon as I can.  I see by your last (June 7th) that you are looking for me at home.  I am sorry to disappoint you but circumstances beyond my controll keep me from the society I love so well far beyond the time I could desire, but it is now less than three months to the time when we can reasonably hope beyond for adventure, when we will be at home  I sincerely regret that we were not mustered out at Mobile as I think we should have been, but since we have come to Texas I want to see all of it I can.  We may not go further than Houstin, but there is a report that we are to go to Austin, the Capitol.  If we should we will have to march a part of the way, which I dread as it will be verry warm.  I intend to hope on that we will yet be mustered out before the 19th of Sept.  I believe I wrote you in my last that Cyrus had been taken prisiner, he & five others of his Co were cut off from the rest of the Command during an engagement.  I have some hope that he will be mustered out as all prisiners were to be, but there is no knowing, he may have been killed, & our hearts be wrung with the same anguish known by thousands of other parents.  But let us hope that God in His mercy may spare us such a sorrow.  It would truely be terrible.
