Gen. U.S. Marine Hospital N Orleans L'a Sept 14^th 1864

 

            Dear Wife

                        Again this morning will I try to write you a short letter in answer to your two that I recieved the 10^th & 14^th. I was very glad to get them as I always am to get a letter from you and the dear ones at home and to know that you are well althoug I have not very lately contributed any toward your comfort in the way of money that is the reason that I have not written oftener than I have because I could not send you any money it has been the talk that we were to be paid several days since but have not yet which was the reason of my not writing for I wanted to send you the money as soon as I got it and it seemed like a mockery to write without it. I hope that when I write again I shall be able to send you some for I think that we shall get our pay before long

 

My health is improving again and I hope as it gets cooler weather that I shall recover entirely although it is very warm here yet in the day time but yet the nights is cool & pleasant

 

            Every thing is quiet down here now & with out any prospect of fighting. I wish that it was so all over & that the war was closed up for the more I see of it the more I am convinced that politics is the prominent feature of the war at present although money has had more the lead heretofore but as the Presidential Election comes closer at hand politics takes the lead at last here & I presume elsewhere 

 

You said that Josephus Cookingham had got home I am glad of for he deserved it long ago I hope that he will get well again for he is a firstrate boy there is not much in him like Bill but he is a generous openharted boy he should have been sent home last fall when there was a prospect of his getting well if he could have been sent home then. I have not seen Jo Rush since I wrote last but presume that he is well

 

If you see Josephus give him my respects if he is able I should like for him to write to me

 

            I got a letter from Reynolds several days ago and answered it by last weeks mail

 

            I have another photograph that I will send you soon if I do not come myself I shall come after pay day if it is possible for me to do so but do not make any calculations on it for it is uncertain

 

            But I shall have to stop for it is mail time again

 

                        Write as often as you can to me

                                   

Yours as Ever

L. V. Tucker

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