Camp Hambright       

Febuary the 20 1862

 

Dear Mother              

 I seat my self this morning to answer your welcome letter whitch i received some days a go and was hapy to hear ove your all being well we left camp wood the 13^th and started back for west point and intended going from that to cumberland the first day we left camp at 12 oclock and marched 14 miles and lay out on the ground with out tents the wagons was left sticking in the mud and they was two inches of snow on the ground you might think it was cold sleeping on the next morning they was some ove us started / on a head and traveled on til two oclock and we met the cars coming back loadened with soldiers going back we went on til Elizabethtown and stoped in a old school house to stay all night and they was a old farmer came in and invited us down to his house to stay all night and was used very nice we took the cars the next morning for green river they troops had all turned back to go by nashville we got to green river in the evening and our boys had crossed over we folowed them and cot them that night we started on a march the next morning and marched 22 miles that day and i tell you they was a lot of tiard boys that night they was / a great many knapsacks a long the road where the boys had thoughed them a way we lay out all night we have stoped here til we fix the rail road i was sent back to cave citty on the next morning with some wagons for provision and it rained very very hard all the time i was a way i was gone two days they boys all went out to work on the rail road this morning but i couldent go for my feet was sore they is a bout 8 miles of the road tore up and they is a bout 16 thousend at work on it they will finish it in a nother day they rebles has drove hogs and horses in the ponds and killed them so we cant use the water. bolling green is taking our men was drawed back to make them think we was going to nashville to come in the other way / and Michels men was left stay with in 40 miles of them and Buchner was started to nashville and then Michel pushed on to bolling green and is their now and we are going on in a fiew days it may be to morrow we are only 22 miles of ove bolling green Buchner is taking prisoner and Johnson and Pilow three generals and three forts and i think we will be in nashvill in side of a week i am used up prety bad marching and all the rest of the boys to Dan Shearer was left behind        direct your letter to camp wood and it will folow me tell John Spicher to answer my letter yours truly

                                                                                               

Abram Kipp

 

Eliza Bann

 

tel bily to be a good boy and giny

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