Camp Carlton Dec 24

 

            Dear Lib i will pen you a few lines i rote you a leter the 17 i was looking my paper over the other day and i found some that i rote that i rote i did not send bot i will send it know and rite some more we landed the 18 i was sergant of the guard the next day after we landed i am well the boys is all well i have ben to newerleans to day for the first time i shal be sergant of the guard to morow crismas day i took my crismas diner in town to day lant spicer and sam corbet went with mee we had a good time they took oisters and i took a loaf of bread and some frowg boter and it tasted good to mee lib i could take a loaf of your bread out of the oven and i could eat it i think and i would not want eny boter a bit lib i wish you could see newerleans bot you have sean a knicer town bot newerleans is a big town bot it haint knice there haint now buisness don the Generel Botler saled for new york today i was a litle to late to see him i went to the dock bot he had got on the boat they fired some big gunes / fired when he got on the boat lib i wish you could see the costtom house there is in newerleans i persume you have herd abought it they started to build it 16 years a go a they worked at it seven years and left it the post office is in it now it is all marble i tell you it is a big thing it beats eny building in new york i road doon in a car it mad mee think of the time we rode in a car in brookln lib i shant forget that lib i think we had a knice time lib i shant never be sory you come to see mee the more i think abought it that was the best thing you ever don i don lib i wished you could come here and bring that daughter of mine but you cant come bot jest wait i shal come and see you it makes mee feal bad when i think what a knice time we had last spring a makeing sugar you know how cold sis was what a time we had a mooving in i guess you had a fine ride if i can remember right lib we did not realise what a chance we had for injoying our selvs we will injoy it all the beter when i come home. i have jest ben ought and ansured to my name the role is caled / and the lights is all out sergant Botler and my self is righting in capt Vaughans tent lib it is a affle knice eavening to knice to go to bead fore of us sleep to gether it is very cold here nights a affle hevy fog a good many soldiers have the fever and ague the most of them have the blody disintery and when they git that they are gone they they are dying very fast here we had a litle rane last night lib how knice the gardens does look here great heads of letis and radish and evry thing that growes in a guardin the most of the people here is dotch they are all good ounion people bot the most of the jankes are rebels i know by the way they act but they dast not say a word there was a order red to our compny to night we most drill as fast as we could and fit our selvs for the field i think we shal have a chance to show our dexterity very soon the quick the beter lib i think have got a knice gun and it is as bright as a shilling i think i can handle it some to i shal doo my best if i have a chance and haint alarmed but what i shal have a chance we have good meetings here our chaplin is a knice man / we have preaching on the ground sondies and he holds meatings eavening in a big house that is emty here lib i did not tend meeting there half as often as i would if i had liked the folks that went there lib what doo you think abought it i dont want you to think i am scart atall because i am in a enimy country i feal jest the same that i all wayes did put it is well anough to speak abought it lib let mee know what you think abought it. lib i think this will doo lib i will bet in less than fore weaks if i grow black as fast as i have i could go right by you and you would not know mee i will doo know to pull corn the boys all have got a good helthy coler the boys feal good i wish you would tell the folks around there to right to mee i dont have no chance to right a word i have to set up nights to right to you it is 12 oclock now give my love to all        

                              

From L C Hakes

to his dear wife

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