Camp Wood   

Febuary the 6^th 1862

 

Dear Mother              

I seat my self this evening to write you a fiew lines to let you know that i am well and i hope that theas fiew lines may find you all enjoying good health we went out on picket on the 4^th and gust got in last night at eight oclock and was very tiard i must say we had / we had some nice weather what we never had out on picket before on yesterday when we was out a bout twhelve oclock they was twhelve rebles came in to our line of pickets with the flag of truce they had some letters for some ove the rebles friends they are serrounded that tight they cant cend a letter anny where they had some good horses but their uniform was very badly mixed up some had grey clothes on well in fact they had all kinds of uniforms we used them very nice we spent the after noon with them they rebles and our officers passed a great many jokes i herd one ove them sayd he was a quite a young boy to he said he was tiard ove the war and if they would show him his man he would soon make it up with him / our Magor was talking to one ove them and the magor sayd to him i supose you boys will soon be up here to fight us the rebles sayd you men has the largst party and we expect you to come down to us they have drove horses and cows and hogs in the ponds where we will have to get our water our magor sayd to him why you dont want us to go down their dry well says the reble you ought to ove thought ove that before you left home and then says magor to him the people say you dont pay for all your hogs and horses well says the reble they might be some truth in that and he sayd that their boys are very anxious for us to come on they hole twhelves of them acknolledged that they wush it was all over for they was tiard ove it 

 

the day we was out in the morning they was some ove us sent out a bout a half a mile a scouting and we saw fifteen or twenty reble cavelry in the woods a bout a quarter ove a mile off i think we will get at some of them some of theas days we are waiting now on dry weather as soon as the roads gets dry we will advance and try their fortifications at Bolling green our company scorted them Rebles out the pike a bout one half mile and started them with their their rags flaping a round them i will close this letter hoping to hear from you soon my love to you all and the rest of the nabours tell John Spicher i would like if he would answer my letter. yours for ever Abram Kipp

                                                           

Eliza Bann write soon and direct as before

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