Marine Hospital N. Orleans L'a. March 3^d /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 14^th 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 75^th 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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