U.S. Gen. Marine Hospital N. Orleans L'a June 2^d 1864

 

Dear Wife

            I will try this morning and write you another short letter, but I presume that I shall have to put it away several times before I get it finished as there is so much to do that I do not get time to write much now days unless I do it at night after ten oclock and then I am so tired that I go to bed in hopes that I will get rested by morning but frequently get up about as tired as I went to bed

 

            My health is pretty good or else I should not be able to do what I have to do every day from 6 in the morning until 10 at night before I can leave the Dispensary

 

            Has Mr Putman come home to stay you said that he was there and preached the funeral sermon of A. Cain & M E Stebins. I should like to see him firstrate If he is there and you see him give him my respects

 

            I spoke to Mr White about sending you his wifes photograph but he has not got only one with him and that he does not want to part with now. I some think that he will go home before long and if he does I will get it of him and send to you if I can Aunt Sally sent me hers a few days ago and it is a nice one / I will send it home before long. I am going to send you another box pretty soon I have got about 10 yards of nice bleached muslin and 4 or 5 yard of linen and about the same of very nice white flannel and a yard of oiled silk besides several other things that I want to send you and the children. If I can get away I will come and bring them to you myself but if I cannot I will send them to you by Express

 

            I presume that you have heard all about the killed and wounded of the 160^th through the papers if you have you know more about them than I do for I cannot find out anything about them here except of the death of Capt Vandusen Bury Vaughn & Ed Taylor (he is from Newark) there was a number of others killed in the Regiment but I cannot find out who they are

 

            John Vandusen is here in the city to the St James Hospital Josephus Cookingham is at some of the hospitals in the city but I do not know which one of them

 

            It is very warm weather here now as warm as it is at home in July. Corn is tasseled out and all kinds of vegetables are plenty in market Blackberries has been plenty here for a month green cucumbers are no rarity here for they have been large enough to eat for the last two months young potatoes & green peas & beans are a very common dish vegetation of all kinds is very forward 

 

            I got a letter from Iowa a few days ago They are all well then when that was written, but Jennings said that their little girl had been very sick and the rest of the children all had the measles at the same time                

 

I sent you $20. the 13^th of May did you get it all right I will send you $5.00 in this letter and would have sent you more but if I send you a box I shall have to pay the express charges on it which will be as much as three dollars then if I have any left I will send it to you

 

            I will try to write to the children before the next mail goes north if it is possible for me to

 

            Write to me as often as you can I did not get any letter from you the last mail nothing but the Rural and Newark paper that contained the death of Al. Cain

 

I have not sent you any New Orleans papers lately for reason that there was nothing in the worth sending

           

But I must close this for the Present

 

From yours as Ever

L. V. Tucker

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