Morganza, Louisiana Tuesday June the 28 A.D. 1864 My Dearest Elizabeth I seat my self to drop you a few lines tho it has not been long since I sent you a letter yet I must = write you one on perticular business = Peter Leak was teling me last night that the coperheads; as theas men that stays at home (for they) are all alike as regards geting a womens mony don all in there power to get the money from the women or wives of soldiers & to accomplish this they would tel them all sorts of tails such as (the green backs will not for any acount after the war) or this thing is cheap & you can not do beter in Eavensvill) or I would not tel you theas things if you was not a soldiers wife) or here take this dont tel any person I would not let you have it but you are a soldier wife = & just take it along I can live some how ) & at the same time mabe they fell 5 cts or 10 cts as 5 or 10 dollars worth & try to make you think that they are doing grate things for you now all this talk is stuf & no Lady should notice such trash as this & I do not think that you do but I am talking about what is sirtain facts of the mater let me ask a few questions and answer them is Green Backs good ( Just as good as Gold do you like it ( the best of all money I do = do you think it will be good after the war ( yes it will ge good as long as thare is any of it) do you think that the union Army will be successfull =) ( yes I think that the union must shall & will prevale at all hazerds & the U.S. Money will not only be good at the end of the war but it will be beter than gold or silver & no persons but doubtful pepal or southern simpathizers will think otherwize if a man is doubtful of his contrys mony he is doubtful of his contry & I must say in regard to this mater that if my contry goes down I go down with it & if it stands thare is no danger & if I had 7 millions of dollars of Goverment Bonds & had them in a Valt that would not be got open til 5 years hence I could sleep soundly as ever = for I am for my contry & if my contry goes down I go down two for I am willing to share the same fate of my contry ( oh you of litle fathe ) oh I hope Lizzie that you are as good a union man as I am & then I am sirtain that you would love your contry & its money the Rebels = here in the south west part of Louisiana used altogether the green backs the citizens of Louisiana wil not have any other sort the very man that are fighting for southern rits will not have southern money = it is good in Texas tho but the green backs is beter eaven thare = now I am teling you this for your owen good & to rouse you up a litle in regard to your contry go not fall in to the sinn of Coperheadism ( or to doubt your contry money = is all the same ) oh that the time would be hastly in coming that all trators would cease to do eavel & learn to go good = & now Lizzie I do not know that you do ) but let me tel you to never doubt you contrys money no never = value it as the hard earnings of a soldier for away from home & if thare=is=any discount on the green backs I will make it up to you for all that you have on hands ( when this cruel war is over ) when I get home = & if goverment does not redeem it I will that is what you have on hands when I get home I will send you a 5 cts of the last isue of postage curency remember thy creator in the days of thy youth for the eavel days cometh not & so forth 1864 vol. 756 New orleans D.A.I.L.Y. times June 28 No. 9 & now as I have writen this letter on a diferent subject I do not think that is will have any thing to do with former letters so you must excuse my excentric notions & pardon all extremes which I am sory to say I am apt to run to in hasty expressions as you may find in this leter but if you are careful & considerd you may find some good advise espresly if you will take all kinds this letter leaves me well & harty hoping that you may be well when you receive it Kiss the baby for me & tel George to kiss you for me I took my 2 shirts as the cloths ration to a Lady to make & this morning I went to see her or the shirts & she had made one two litle & will have to make it over she laught & said that she did not think that that I was any larger than she was but in this she was mistaken espeshly in the rists & neck I have 3 pants 5 shirts 3 drawers 4 socks 1 over coat one hat pare of shoes & now Lizzie I am yours truly with out fail & I will remember you Mack A Hooker to Lizzie Love Hooker [written sideways across the letter] let me know if you get 2 letters with a dollar bill in each one & one writen at Alexandria & one at this place I think the one writen at Alexandria was captured by the rebels; the wether is very hot here now when on this your eys you cast remember whare you saw me last Lizzie I will be happy when I am blest with the return to your arms ever more I think in 13 months now I will be at home to sea you for to stay I am not coming home on a furlow for you know the terms of furlows & I am not going to comply with the demand for a furlow I hope that you will excuse my last letter & when I write again I will writ more as you say when you write to me the boys is all well & harty Mart is get about well give my love to all inquiring frends or save it all to your self do not care which Remember me when this you sea tho many will forget me another year & then McAllister A. Hooker to Elizabeth Jane Hooker Patrick J. Anderson http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=patanderson 9654 Baltimore Avenue, Laurel, Maryland 20723