No 28
 Des Moines Iowa 
Wednesday March 4th /63  
Dear Husband,  
I received the draft this morning for 43.00. I hope you kept enough to buy such things as are necessary for your comfort, I will use it as economically as possible, we owe Brother Nash 5.50 of our last years subscription that I will pay, as I expect they need it, how much ought we to give next or I would say this year; O: I try to hope you will be home to hear his sermons, before the year is out, I wish that I could feel as hopeful as Bro Nash does, he said Sunday that he would write you & send it by Capt Houston I did not see as expected, & he did not start to the regiment until this morning, Mr Reicheneker saw him last evening & asked him if he knew you, he said he did & saw you every, Mr R told him that there was a woman up at his house that would like to
