Camp Wood January the 16 1862

           

Dear Mother

                                    I sit down this evening in my little cotton tent to answer your welcome letter whitch i received on the 14^th and was glad to hear of you all being well i am well a gain and getting fat on our musty crackers and fat pork and a little black coffee. Frank Michell has come back to camp he loocks very well he is able to drill some now. James Huff is lying sick but i think he will get a ferlough to go home til he gets better or fit to drill a gain. we have a great time here if we was half dead we would have to dril turn over 

 

they is one regiment in our brigade that has lost two hundred and fifty men with sicknes. we have had one case of smaul pocks in our regiment they have moved him out a good ways from the rest of the tents. we are getting a long very well now they is only four sick out ove our tent now but i think a gain i write to you a gain they will be able to dril all but one that is sam shafer from freeport i am a fraid he wont get well a gain he has been lying sick for a bout 8 weeks and ant able to set up yet without some help. this is a very hilly country here. our boys is getting very mutch dis satisfied on acount ove not mooveing on faster. turn over 

 

but i think they will be some thing done before long now. if it wasent for this rail road we might ove been to bolling green before this time but the rebles has halled wood on the track and set it on fier and burnt the road all up and blowed up the cave city tunnel i think our officers will give up trying to make the road, and try it on foot i hope they may, so we get throug with this trouble for i am tiard of this kind of ove a soldiering laying here we will all be lousy here before long if we dont moove. this is all, write soon as you can, i wrote to you on the 14^th, yours forever Abram Kipp Esqr

 

Mrs Eliza Bann

 

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