No 24  Rossville, Ill.  Sabbath Morn April 16th, /64 Dear Husband. This is a beautiful morning! the Robins and Lark are trilling their matin songs, every thing in nature seems to recognize their Creator.  I am at Mary's, that little black-eyed girl; you remember she married John Ellison; I am spending the time here very pleasantly indeed; all I have had to trouble me particularly was the loss of my trunk, but I heard from that yesterday morning, it is at Danville now at the Express Office, it will cost me 2.75 but I am glad to get it by paying that sum; I was afraid that I had lost it entirely.  Last Thursday I received two letters from you (No 20 & 21.) in the last you wrote of moving from Indianola to the Island again; the loss of those soldiers on the pontoon was very sad indeed, I read an account of in the Chicago Tribune,
