Marine U.S.A General Hospital New Orleans L'a March 3^d 1865

 

Dear Wife

                                                After two weeks since I wrote you I will try again to write you a short letter. The reason of my not writing for the last two weeks was simply because there has been no mail go North in that time So if I had written it would not have gone until this week Saturday

 

            I recd yours & Mr Reynolds letters yesterday written the 9^th of Feby So you see that we do not get the mails any oftener than you do I wrote to Mr Reynolds the 17^th of last month he must have it before this But I will answer this one in a few days

 

            I am still at work in the Dispensary and my health is good although I feel pretty tired as I had to work pretty hard yesterday. There is no news here yet of any importance there has an expidition left here last week for Mobile the 18^th N.Y. Battery was here with them I should like to have went and seen Henry Vosburg while they were here but they did not stay here long enough so that I could get a chance to go

 

            I think that I have got now all of your letters that you sent me up to the 9^th of Feby In the last one that I wrote you I sent you ten dollars and I will send you two more in this making twelve dollars in all I would send more if I had it to send. I cannot tell yet whether we shall get paid this pay day or not it seems strange that the Government makes the soldiers go with out their pay so long and so many of them need it so bad but I have less than six months to serve yet and then I think I will try to earn money by working for some one else

 

            Mr. Reynolds said that he had not yet bought him any land and that it was not impossible but that he should yet go to Michigan, but I hope that he will wait until after I get home before he goes for I want to see him he spoke of getting you coal, beef and of paying your taxes I feel very thankful to him for his kindness to you I do not know what you would have done but for him he has been so kind to you since I left home. I do not know how I can pay him for his kindness

 

I think of you and the children very often and wish that / I could be there with you but the time is growing less every day although it seems very slow to me

 

But it is getting late and I shall have to stop for this time but will try and write again.

 

            Tell Frank that I have got a new cap for him that I will send him before long

 

I shall send Lilly something at the same time

                       

Write as often as you can and I will do the same as Ever yours

L. V. Tucker

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