Camp Wood                           

December the 26 1861

           

Dear Mother

It tis with pleasure that i sit down to night to answer your welcome letter whitch i received to day and was hapy to hear that you are all well i have been lying sick with the feaver for better than two weeks but i am able to walk a round some now i think i will be able to drill in a week or so i feel well only i am weak i can tell you it is no fun lying sick in camp 

 

Frank Michell took sick the same day i did and in the same tent and when we got orders to march they sent frank to louisville to the hospital where he has been ever sense he is getting better fast Jim Huff is their to and George tailor we have eight their all togather you say you havent received anny letters sense the 7^th i wrote twice or three times sense that they must of ove got lost on their way i think i will have to frank all my letters if they dont go better than they have done for some beffore we have mooved on south 24 miles further than we was when / i wrote to you last

 

            we are now encamped with in 1 mile of green river they was a fight at the river on the 17^th 4 hundred of our men to 4 thousend rebles our men drove then off and killed 127 of them and the wounded they took them with them we lost 11 and 20 wounded it was the 32 indianna regiment that done the fighting it tis raining very hard to night and one little cotton tent leaks very bad but we will try and stand it it is prety hard lying on corn stalks 

 

tell Jinny and billy that i cant tell when i will be home my love to all ove you write soon harry is well and bob smith is well James Smith is here in camp now on his way to rock island John Boil is well and all the rest of the boys

                                                           

yours forever Abram Kipp

 

                                                                        Eliza Bann

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