April 22^d 1864

U.S. Gen Marine Hospital N Orleans La

 

Dear Wife

                        I will write you a few words this morning before the mail closes so that you may know how I am

 

                        I am still well as usual and hard at work I have to work harder now than I have had to since I have been down here but with the exception of being very tired at night I am getting along firstrate. I try to make the best of my situation let me be where I will and I have found by so doing that I get along much better than I would by constantly fretting

 

            I have no news to write this morning from any source, for since the battle up at Red River there has not much occurred here. I sent you a paper containing an account of the fight there but you need not / believe all that you read in the paper for by that account we gained a great victory, but it is just to the contrary for instead of gaining the day with us it was a complete route and a heavy loss for us our army has fell back some 40 or 50 miles and it is thought that we shall be unable to hold Alaxandria with all of our troops there and fortified at that

 

            Last Sunday Mr White and I went down to the old battle ground where Jackson fought the Battle of New Orleans in 1815. I was some what disappointed in the place for with the exception of an unfinished monument there was nothing there to designate it from any other place. But I enjoyed the ride there and back and brought away with me a piece of the marble of which the monument is built. I saw some beautiful yards or lawns in front of houses. They were laid out / and arrainged so nice there was hedges of roses in full bloom of all colours and also of pinks and then other flowers to match

 

            But I must stop for this time for it is time that this was in the office But I will try and write again soon

 

            I got a letter from W. S. Drake last Sunday

                                   

Write as often as you can

Yours as Ever

L. V. Tucker

 

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L V Tucker

 

Leslie

            Robinson

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