Marine U.S.A Gen Hospital N. Orleans La

 

Dec 29^th 1864

Dear Wife, I will write you another short letter this afternoon as I am not very busy but yet have not got anything of importance to write more than to say that I am still well and feeling firstrate for me

 

I hope that you are getting along all right and that you & the children are well. You must be having some pretty cold weather up there now if I can judge anything by what it was when I left home But here we are having very nice weather it is so warm that I have not worn a coat for nearly a week and to day the sun shines very warm & nice and yesterday I see folks working their gardens as we do in May 

 

Well I believe that I said something in my letter that I wrote to you last week about the preperations here for a christmas dinner. We had a very good dinner which consisted of roast turkey oyster soup mashed potatoes mintz pies ginger bread & fruit cake & bread & butter and a plenty of each kind Every man in the Hospital had turkey that was able to eat it When I set down to the table to dinner I could have enjoyed it much better if I could have just put the turkey on the table before you and the children to have eaten of as well as myself

 

            But hope I that we may enjoy a good many good meals together yet

 

            I hope that it will not be many days now before we shall get paid and then I can send you some money so that you can keep comfortable for the rest of the winter 

 

            I do not have to work very hard yet as there is not very much work to do now

 

            Well I will stop for this time and write again in a few days if I do not write such long letters I will write the more of them so as to make it all up

 

            Write as soon & as often as you can To

                        L. V. Tucker

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