Camp Wood Ky         

January the 27 1862

 

Dear Mother              

I sit down this night to answer your welcome letter whitch i received on the 25^th and have had so mutch to do that i could not write to you any sooner we had to go out on the other side of green river we went out and laid in the woods two days and one night we was expecting a attact they was some two regiments went down to cave citty and drove in the rebles pickets / but we couldent get them to follow us out if they had we would we played smash with them we herd a great deal of canonadeing all that day the boys was all anxious to get at it for they have been lying so long here doing nothing our grub fell short when we was out and had to make our dinner on parched corn and had no sleep the night before it went prety hard eating the corn but it ant the first time we have had to eat it to keep on our footing we have been througing up intrenshments / we have throughed up a bout a mile ove it i am a fraid that we wont take bolling green for it is so well fortified we will have to attact it in a narow place and they can play on us with their batteries as we go in on them we will have to fight from cave citty to bolling green that is 25 miles but i think we will try it soon make what we will out ove it the weather is very bad here all the time rain and snow it ant the case a bout Bob smiths nose tell Billey that i hant killed any rebles yet turn over 

 

you need not send any thing to me for i cant cary it the drum is beatting for me to go to bed i will close this letter hoping to hear from you soon i am well and hope you are all the same

                                                                       

yours forever A Kipp

 

Eliza Bann

 

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