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Camp Distribution, Factors Press New Orleans Dec. 25th /64 Dear Carrie A Merry Christmas, and a happy new year to you all. When I left home was in hopes to have been with the boys of the Company ere this, but fate seems to be against me, and I have to spend my Christmas here under guard. I have an invitation out to dinner, by a Dutch woman who married a man in Company I of our Regt. August is his name, he formerly lived up near the Piasa. Dining there I think will be