Murpheys Borow Tennessee             

January the 11^th           1863

           

Dear Mother

                                    I seat my self this beautiful after noon to answer your kind and welcome letter whitch i received on yesterday and was hapy to hear ove you all enjoying good health my health is very good and i am getting a long very well i received a letter from ban on the day before cristmas and you know how i would feel to hear ove sutch news as was in it but i do think he was prepared to die for the last letter i got from him he was in good hart and said he felt like a new man sense he gained the church it is hard on me here to hear of him being killed but i think he is better of now       turn over 

 

it will be hard on walter to do without him i now but i got a letter from John Potts a fiew days a go he says walter is in good spirits and Harvy potts and him goes togather John says him and some more of them buried Daniel them selves this is a great confort to me to know that he was buried decently i hope you wont trouble your self a bout him and for my part i would not have him brought home it will only be double trouble trouble on you i would like to see him home my self but i ask this of you dont have him brought home talk to ant mary a bout this and see what she thinks of it this would be my advice a bout it the day i got the letter from ban we was sent on picket and on the next day we started on the march and was on the march and arived in this place on the fifth after five days fight we lost very heavy

                                                                                                                       

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our regiment lossed 180 men killed wounded and missing our company lossed 6 killed 12 wounded and 8 taking prisoner the first day the rebles drove us back and after that we whiped them i never want to witness sutch a sight a gain as i did on the battle field them 5 days it was shocking my pardner was shot dead by my side his name was Henry Weaver a son of Benn Weavers a nice boy he was to i would of wrote to you sooner if i could but as it was i couldent i our Division done very hard fighting i wont tel you any thing about it you will see it in the paper Negleys Division and we are in General Milers Brigade you will see all a bout it in the paper Dan Shearer wasent hurt and all the westmoreland county boys is safe this was one of the hardest battles of this war i never want to witness sutch a fite a gain      

                                                                                 

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our army is now at a stand here but i think we will moove on soon we took a bout 7 thousand prisoners and the rebles left their sick and wounded here whitch will amount to 1500 hundred i also received them two pair of socks gloves and blanket you sent me but i lost my blanket on the battle field i am very thankful to you for theas articles you sent me give my love to ant and all whome may inquier of me i read my bible a good deal more than i use to but i will acknolledge i dont read it as mutch as i ought to do but i will do better from this on i do mean this i will close this hoping it will find you all in good health this is all at presant write soon as possible

                                                           

your true friend Abram Kipp

                                                                                   

Eliza Bann

 

Direct Murpheys Borow Tennessee

 

[margin] tell Manda and Alie to write often to me and i will try and answer them

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