Bonnet Carrie La Jany 8th 1864
Dear Sister
     I received a letter from
you some time ago telling me
that Sol had gone to the pinery
to work I wish you would send
me his address so that I could
write to him for I don't think
he will write unless I send him
a letter we have been in this
place since cristmas it is a 
dirty muddy Place forty miles
above New Orleans on the Mississippa
River the Regmt is Quartered here
for to get claned up and some
rest befoe going to New Orlenas
to do Provost duty where we
expect to go in a few days
we have been drawn from the
field for the present for to recruit
the Regmt for it is getting quite

small out of Eight Hundred
men that we left New York
with a little over a year ago
there is not over two Hundred
and fifty left the work is all
done in the field here their
is no more Rebs left in this
state and nothing for them
to live on if they were here
we have had a good deal of rain
here this fall and winter and
some cold nights since
I have been here
     I have wrote two or three
letters to conquest and have
had no answer when you
write let me now when you
have heard from their it
is getting time for dress Parade
and I must close Remember
me to the children and

the enquiring friends and
let me know how you are
getting a long this winter and
how Mr Vantyle like the Camp
this winter
            From Brother Jim

P.S.
      Direct your letters to New Orleans
as follows
                    James Hardenbergh
           Lieut Co. C 133 Regmt N.Y.V.
                   Defences of New Orleans