No 30  Rosssville, Ill.  June 5th 1864  My Dear Husband  Yours of May 12th, written opposite the mouth of Red river was received Thursday the 2nd inst, and I assure you I devoured its contents greedily, for I was becoming very anxious about you, as it had been more than two weeks since I had heard from you; I again have reason to be thankful that your life was spared, for you were evidently in a very dangerous position.  O! it makes my blood chill to think of terrible death that some of our poor poor boys met on Red river!  Certainly our national pride will forbid out historians from recording the barbarities of Ft Pillow and Red River.  I shudder when I think there is a possibility of my husband falling
