Lewis V. Tucker to Deborah O. Tucker, 3 March 1864
Marine Hospital N. Orleans L'a. March 3d /64
 
Dear Wife       I will once more write you a few words although I have written but a few days since to you your letter of Feby 14th I got some two or three days since and will reply to it to night
 
            Well now that I have commenced I hardly know what to write for I have written so often that I have no more news to write you but if nothing happens when I write you again I can tell you a little something new for to morrow the first free State governor that Louisianna ever had is to be inaugurated and and there is to be a great time of rejoicing all day and in the evening If I can I am going down to see the performance
 
            Well Dr Powers is going to leave here next Saturday for Brashear to take charge of a hospital there I have been with the old Doctor so long that I hate to see him go a way for he has been a friend to me Mr White goes with him I shall be about the only one of our regiment that is here now and it will seem lonesome when Mr White leaves /
 
            When you write to me after this you need not send in the care of Dr Powers any more for they may go to Brashear if you do before I get them. The Doctor that takes Dr Powers place is the first surgeon of the 75th N. York a very fine man, his name M. D. Benedict
 
            I shall send you in this letter some Confederate money it is not good for anything but yet I would like for you to keep it for me if you will. I am going to write to the children pretty soon again
 
            I will make that ring for Minnie Horton as soon as I can but I will quit now and go to bed for I expect to be waked up in the morning pretty early for there is to be a 100 guns fired at daybreak the rurals that you sent me I have got often I read them through I gave them to Mr White and he sent them to his wife
 
Write often to
yours as ever
L. V. Tucker
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(14309)DL1940.067X.1Letters1864-03-03

Tags: Guns, Hospitals, Loneliness, Money, News, Politics, Reading

People - Records: 2

  • (5096) [writer] ~ Tucker, Lewis V.
  • (5097) [recipient] ~ Tucker, Deborah O. ~ Osgood, Deborah

Places - Records: 2

  • (72) [origination] ~ New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana
  • (3161) [destination] ~ Arcadia, Wayne County, New York

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Lewis V. Tucker to Deborah O. Tucker, 3 March 1864, DL1940.067, Nau Collection