Marine Hospital New Orleans L'a. Feby 7^th 1864

 

Dear Wife

                        Another short letter to you to night and probably it will be a short one for I have something of a headache to night and shall go to bed before long and see if I cannot sleep it off

 

            Yours of Jan 21^st I got day before yesterday and as usual was glad to get it and to day I got one from Wes. Drake In regard to that letter of yours that I spoke of written Nov 3^d I will send it with this to you so that you can see if you know anything about it. I think you wrote it for it looks like your writing and has your name signed to it

 

            This afternoon I went up to the city cemetry and had a stroll through that, but it was not so interesting as the other from the fact that it was very much like it although there is a good many splendid tombs there, some of them built of brick and a good many of them built of marble About the only difference between this and the Catholic Cemetry is that in this one there is a few buried in graves with tomb stones up at the head and foot, while in the Catholic there is none only in the tombs. I also went through the Soldiers Cemetry and a sad and sickning sight was there and a worse stench for they are only buried about 2 feet or 2 and ½ deep and only about 5 inches apart each way and when they dig new graves they are so close to those that are filled that the stench comes out very bad and is hardly endurable now while it is cool weather and what must it be in the hot weather of summer there is probably 2000 and it may be more buried there now 

 

In regard to those pennies that the children sent me I think that I have them all in my pocket now I have five of them and I think that I shall send them home when I send another box

 

            You said that Doctor Vosburgh had been to see you did he say anything about what I owe him or when he wanted his pay I do not see the Cook boys any more for they are both with the regiment and have been for some weeks Give Mr Cook my respects when you see him

 

            In regard to Bill Cookingham if you sue him Ruben Hartman saw him sign the note it was down in John Haights brick yard that was the way that it came to be signed with a pencil as we had no pen and ink there

 

            But I must stop and go to bed for I have to work to morrow we have to moove out of this ward into and other so that this can be whitewashed and painted but I will try and write twice this week yet as there is two more mail steamers leaves here for New York after this one that this letter comes by

 

                        So good bye for this time

 

From

L. V. Tucker

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