No 4 
Cottage Home, Iowa
  Monday, Nov 23d 1863
  Dear Husband,
  I am again at home, as you will see by the heading; Austin came up to church in his buggy and brought me out; I was really glad to get home, and they all seemed glad to see me, so you will forget all I said in No 2.  The last time I wrote you I was looking anxiously for a letter from you, I recd yours of the 29th and 30th written immediately after your arrival at Camp Carrolton, on Wednesday, and yours of the 6th just as you were leaving or expecting to leave for the Regt the next day, so that I know the first was detained somewhere.  I was glad to hear your health had improved so much and that you had such a pleasant trip down, but I am sorry you did not start two weeks sooner if it, your absence, will be any detriment to your intrests there; I suppose you did not know when you wrote that the Regt had been consolidated, I suppose in that event about half the Capts would be mustered out unless they resigned; We met Dr Hull as we were coming out yesterday, he seemed to regret very much that you did not get there sooner, as he said there would be a
