Marine Hospital NO Oct 22^d/63

 

Dear Wife

               I will again write you a short letter although I have written only by the last mail that a few left here last Saturday. I have nothing new or important to write but will write so that you may know how and where I am

 

            I am still here in the hospital yet and shall remain for some time I guess My health is very good although I am not able to endure hard work as well as I used to but that is probably because I have been in the house so much since I have been here

 

            I have not got any letter from you in some four weeks and am anxious to hear from you I begin to think that you are sick the reason that I do not get any letters from you for I used to think that you used write so that I got a letter nearly every mail from you I have written every week to you since I came here and shall do so as long as I stay here 

 

When you write again Direct your letters to me at the Marine Hospital New Orleans in care of Doctor Powers as I shall get them sooner while I am here, and if I should go away he will send them to me

 

            the last letter that I wrote you I wrote on a sheet of paper that had a cut of Jackson Square on the front page the next one that I send will be a cut of the St Charles Hotel and I have one also of New Orleans that I shall send you

 

            The Regiment the last that I heard of them they were nearly in texas and still were marching on but had no fighting yet but was expecting every day when they should have a skirmish as they were getting close to the Rebs

 

            I send you a paper quite often but they are not allowed to publish anything about their progress unless they have a fight and are victorious then the papers are filled with the news of it I shall send you to day a Harpers weekly and will send you New Orleans papers as often as there is anything in them worth sending I would like to have you send me some Newark papers if you can get them I have not got one in two months 

 

            Yesterday the Surgeon General from Washington was here inspecting the hospital and we had him give us the praise having things look the best of any hospital he had been into. the Doctor that has charge here is very particular about having things look neat and clean

 

            I wrote you in my last letter that W. S. Drake was coming home but it seems that it is uncertain yet he applied for a furlough but it was refused and now he is trying for his discharge but he may not get it yet, it will grieve him very much if he does not for he is a considerable of a baby.

 

            But I shall have to stop writing for this time for there is some more sick men coming in and I must attend to them but I will write again soon and write more when I write                               

 

Answer soon and often

from yours &c

L. V. Tucker

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