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Steam Levee Press New Orleans La. Apr. 4th 1864 Dear Sister Carrie Since last writing I have again changed my quarters, am now situated about five miles down the river fro the Regimental Dead Quarters, guarding Secesh prisoners in a Cotton press. There are three Companies from the Regt. doing duty here beside the Recruits from Company G. If we could have our own officers and all the company here I should like it better than in the heart of the City, but to be way out of the world in the subberbs of the great City, with but few associates makes it somewhat lonesome, and I do not have enough to do to keep my mind occupied. All there is for me to do is to look out for the interests of the men, and see to drawing their Rations. We have seven hundred and fifty Prisoners under guard here, about the finest looking set of Rebs. I have ever seen, they have plenty of good food to eat, and good quarters to stay in. The treatment of these men compared to our poor men in Richmond is so great that