Regimental Hospital  

Lafourche L.A. Aug 31^st 1863

 

Dear Wife & children                                    

I thought this morning that I would write you another short letter this morning so that you would know how that I am getting along and where I am

 

            We are still at Lafourche the regiment guarding the rail road a company in a place but are expecting every day to get orders to moove where to we do not know but think to Mobile. Gen Banks is fitting out two expiditions one for Mobile and the other for Galveston in Texas which we shall have to go with we cannot yet tell and shall not know until we have to start and perhaps not then for there is no fear of a soldier knowing what he has got to do until he does it but when they do have to moove we shall have to send our sick to New Orleans & I shall try hard to go with them if I do I think that I shall stay there for a while till we are settled again 

 

My health at present is better than it has been for some time back and I hope that it will keep on improving until I am entirely well I do not have to work very hard here and if we could stay here awhile I should like it firstrate Our hospital is with in about ten rods of the rail road where the cars stop so we can get our mail the next day after it gets to New Orleans and we can send our letters from here every morning it is the best place that we have had for a camp yet any where but the 160^th must keep mooving for if they should lie still awhile after marching some six hundred miles they might have a chance to recruit up a little but that would not do they must keep on the march the third Brigade is said to be the best fighting brigade in this department (the third is our brigade) and after they were stationed here as it was said by the Officers to stay for two or three months Gen Weitzel would not go either to Mobile or texas unless he could have his old brigade with him for he said he had tried them and could depend on them always 

 

Well Ma I wrote you a letter last wednesday so I shall not write you a very long one this time but will write again in a few days unless I have to go on the march with the rest of them if I do I will write again as soon as I can and as often as I can I wrote in my last letter from New Orleans that I was going to send the children some new clothes but when I came away could not get down in the city so that I could get them to send and I have not been back there since and have not yet sent them I have a very nice white wool blanket that I want to send you as soon as can and some other things with it if I go to the city to stay I will send them from there but if not as soon as I can get a pass to go down there to get the other things that I want to send I will send them from here but do not be disappointed if I am unable to send them for the favours of war is to a private rather sparingly shown the reason that I have not sent you any more money is because that I did not know how much it would cost to send them home and I wanted to keep enough to pay for sending the box home not because I was afraid you would [paper hole] it foolishly 

 

I have been looking for a letter from Mr Reynolds for some time but have not yet recd any lately Give him my respects for his kindness to you since I have been gone from home

 

            Deborah I got those stamps that you sent me all right you need not send any more until I write for them again for I have plenty of them now and will send for more before I get out of them again

 

Has J. H. Miller been to see you yet with that money that I sent you by him it is two weeks since he started for home and he must be there before this as he went up the river from New Orleans

 

            W. S. Drake has not got his furlough yet and I guess that he will not there is lots here that are more deserving of one than he is that cannot get one

 

            I hope that this will find you in better health than when you wrote your last letter try and get your health if possible

 

but I must stop for this time

 

From yours as Ever

L. V. Tucker

 

keep good courage a better time is coming

 

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