HEAD QUARTERS,
1st Reg. Michigan Engineers & Mechanics.
			               March 9the
Co C Camp Chatnoog tenn 1863.
	    Dear Sister
	        I now sit
down to rite you a few
to let you know how hi
I am geting a lonong once
more I have got the mumps
now I am just comming
down with them now
I guess that I shant have
them very hard but
cant tell yet my throat
is a little sore now I have
not recieved but too letters
from you since I have been


here one was a bout thet
money that I sent from the
rapids and one from matt
I rote and sent you the receit
and have not herd from
it yet I expect one every
mail you must rite often
well cate we have lost one
more of our company that
Enlisted for Baltimore John
Mcomber died last night
about three oclock he will
be buried some time to
day he was as good a boy 
as we had in our company
if I can I shall go too the
funerel if it is so i can
get back before night they
will take him a bout
three miles to the burrying
ground we shall miss him
for their is not but too of

us left now that Enlisted
for this regm from that town
when we started we all thought
that we should stand it but
we cant tell who will go
nex as for mee I have been
well until now you must
rite often I shall have
to rite to mr Mcomber to day
and let him know and
it is a hard stent for me
to do you must excuse
me for this time now so
good bie
    From Sololomon
		Hardenberg
	to
     Catherine Baker
P S Direct as before

Cate I thought i would
rite you a few more
lines this after noon being
I could not go to see
John Mcomber burried it looks
like to rain and I dare
not go to day but when
I get over the mumps
I shall go up and see whare
he is burried you must
not wory about me for i
am weell or will be in a few
days the mumps dont last
long rite soon so mo more
yours From your Brother
	Solomon Hardenberg
	       to 
	Catherine Baker