Crow Valey Alabama

August 27/63

 

Dear Mother

             It is with pleasure that I seat my self to answer your kind and welcome letters that i received in this morning mail and you have no idea how glad i was to hear from you but i was sory to hear ove lidea being sick i hope hope by the time this letter reaches you that she may be well and able to go to school a gain we are lying in a valey and the sun is shining bright and the air is cool and it makes it most beautiful after being so hot it seems a great deal to me like a fall day to me at home it seems like some ove the days i used to roam over the hills gathering chesnuts in the old Keystone state when i think ove the hapy days i used to have it makes me / feel down harted the way we are kept under here but but i know we couldent be left run at large here if we would the army would be of no use a tal so i content my self as it is i live in hopes that the war will be over some time we are deprived of a great many pleasures now that youst to have a person at home has very little idea of what we have to do but perhaps some ove them will get trying it them selves yet. i was sory to hear ove the death ove Bell hawk you spoke ove shaner being dead i dont know whitch shaner you mean whether it was Henry or Jacob please let me know whitch if them it was. you want to know where bob smith is and saltshiver i see bob evry day he is well and loocks well Saltshiver is in the hospittle at Nashville in fact isaac never was any account to the regt but he cant get a discharge on no conditions bob dose well he is the same old bob John Boyle is well and friend Daniel Shierer Dan is a nice boy 

 

i received both ove your letter in one mail but i rote a letter to you three days a go as i did not get any from you i thought i would write i think we will get a long here if it keeps cool but i am a fraid it wont last we are expecting to moove on soon and from what i can learn when we do start we will travel on into Georgia we have a long road before us some thinks the rebs will give us a hard fight at chattanooga they may but i am confident we can drive them out of that and atalanta Georgia is their next place to make a stand i dread the long march. you say elen daugherty saw our sargent in freeport i wish you had ove saw him and talked to him he is a nice young man but from what i hear he is failing fast in health sense he left us he was sick when he left us i hope he will get a nough men to fill our regt and get back soon for he is well liked by all the boys in the company / the boys are all well in the company we have splendid watter here you spoke a bout walter showing you that letter i wrote to you i hope you will take my advice for once well as i hant any good news to write this time i will close this leaves me enjoying good health i hope you will write often nothing more but my love to all

                                                           

write soon

Abram Kipp

 

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            Abram Kipp

            Co. F 78^th Pa. Vols

            2^d Div. 14^th A.C

                        Alabama

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