Camp Near Murfreesboro Tenn

June the 17^th 1863

 

Dear Mother

                   I seat my self this pleasant evening to answer your kind and welcome letter whitch i received in to days mail and you dont know how glad i was to hear ove you all being well and to hear that lidea was learning so fast at school tell her if she stil keeps learning that i will pay for her schoolen my self and if she lives she will see the use ove a schoolen i have now begun to know the use of schoolin my self if i had ove listened to you or father when you used to tell me i could ove been a good deal better so i want her to try and learn all she can      turn over 

 

i received that picture ove mandays i was glad to get it i dont want alie to think i dident want hers the reason i wanted mans was because be cause i had sutch a fuss the time alie and her had them taking i supose you mind the time and i forgot to bring it a long i left it in the beaurow so i thought i would have it sent to me i received Kates picture and Claries to day i was glad to get them i tell you Kate is a fat old gal by the loocks of the picture Clarie is gest like she was when she was at our place on the visit i havent had but the one letter from cate yet but i am expecting one evry day when she sent the pictures she hadent got my letter yet i know ant ann would be glad to hear from you when you write direct to Hanging Rock Laurence County Ohio 

 

i wrote a letter to allie but i hant mailed it yet i have been writing some in it for several days as i new she wasent at home and i have sayd a good deal in it a bout different things so i wont need say any thing a bout the raid the rebles is making in Pennsylvania you will hear of it sooner than i will well we are stil in our old camp yet we have had no news from vixburgh of late but Grant is still holding their own and General Burnside has left Kentuckey with his force to reinforce Grant i feel confident that our men will take Vixburgh and in very fiew days to i think our moove here depends all togather on what Grant does at vixburgh if he is drove back their we wont soon moove and if he succeeds we will be reinforced by part of his force and then we can expect to do something. the weather here is very hot and we have to drill all / very hard if the rebles goes into Pennsylvania the coperheads will find out what is the matter they will see they need more men in the army a raid run by the rebles in the northern states will learn them a lesson and a lesson they wont forget soon a gain when you write give me all the perticulars a bout the draft and every thing else a round their as i hant mutch to write i will close hoping to hear from you soon Dan Shearer is well. nothing more at presant this leaves me well

                                                                                   

yours as ever Abram Kipp

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