Marine Hospital New Orleans L'a March 30^th 1865

 

Dear Wife

            I will write you a few lines to night before I go to bed but yet shall not probably finish the letter now as it is already quite late and I am pretty tired to night

 

            I am well as usual only as I have worked pretty hard this week in cleaning out the Dispensary and getting in our next three months supply of medicines I feel pretty tired and then the Hospital if filled up full again with patients it keeps us at work nearly all day so that there is not much time for play

 

            I hope that before this reaches you that you and the children will all be well again I have been very anxious to hear from you all the week but no letter has come as yet but I hope the next mail will bring one from you so that I can hear how you are all getting along How are the children do they get any better of their sickness. Oh how I wish that I was there with you how my heart aches for you that I cannot help you any in the time of your trouble I cannot either be with you nor get my pay so that I can send you any money to help your self with It is very singular that we cannot get any pay here all around us they have been paid but not here for about eight months but a little over four months and they can pay me for the last time for then I shall quit them and work for some one that does pay oftener than once in 8 or ten months 

 

            I got a letter from Aunt Sally day before yesterday Said that they were all well when she wrote but said that she had not been down to see you yet since I was home But is very fraid that some of her Dear Boys will get drafted (they of course are better than other men myself for instance) Even though I did not go to Canada) but I will say more about her letter in another place

 

            I got a pamphlet from (who do you think it was from) Mrs M. A. White yesterday. well you cannot pull my hair until I get home if I do tell you who it was from & I will send it to you after I read it I shall write to her before a great while

 

            I intended to have written again to Mr Reynolds this week but have worked so hard that when night came I was glad to go to bed but I will try and do it to morrow night if I can and am not too tired. has he gone West again yet Give him my best wishes for his kindness to you & the children since I have been gone. Also to Mr & Mrs Heath

 

            Does the Ledgers come home all right or are they lost on the way I send them when ever I get two to send I have sent you some New Orleans papers did you get them. Tell the children that Pa wishes that he was home with them this cold weather I think of them & you very often. But I must stop writing and go to bed

 

Write as often as you can

                       

As Ever Your             

L. V. Tucker

 

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I will send you a ticket to a fair that is to be

held here next month

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