Written from Camp Stoneman, Washington, D.C. References upcoming enlistment efforts and asks her to tell his father to tell local volunteers to enlist in his Company, B. Asks her to send one or two pounds of tobacco, and discusses logistics of his father coming to visit. He recounts a general review and that a general had positive things to say about his regiment. Mentions the weather, his good health, and that the food is generally "a little better fare than Soldiers generaly have."

Envelope postmarked at Washington, D.C. on January 13, 1864. Addressed to "Mrs Jane Lockwood, Watkins, Schuyler Co., N.Y."