Tennessee

Camp at Deckard Station

August the 4^th 1863

 

Dear Mother

                I seat my self once more to answer your kind and welcome letter whitch i received in to days mail and i was sory to hear ove you being sick but i think you give a very corect account ove your sickness i know you have been working to hard and i mentioned this in my last letter but i supose you wont pay any attention to it as usual i tell you mother this has been bothern me a good deal this long time a bout you working so hard i know it is needed to be done their to get a long but you must bair in mind that you are getting to old / to work so hard and you cant stand it if i only could be their to talk to you and help i would feel mutch easyer a bout it this makes me feel very bad to think that you have raised me up til i have got to be some help to you and now to think that you have to work til you are laid up this is hard and i ask this one thing ove you to quit this hard work leave things go as they may i wrote a letter to walter on this very subgect a fiew days a go and i feel this my duty to get you to quit this hard work but i dont want you to read this letter over and throw it aside and think no more ove it bair this in mind you know your self this ant right you sent me five dolars in your letter i got and you said you sent stamps but they was none in it i think you must ove forgot / to put them in i received that handkerchief alie sent me and socks and comb you said they was mailed the same time your letter was i got them several days a go i was glad to get them i am very thankful to her for them but you needent send me any cotton socks after this for we can ware them out in our coarce shoose in one days march i had a letter from walt a fiew days a go he was well and i gess the war fever has left him. you say ban has paid his three hundred dolars and is going to stay at home well i dont know what to think of sutch news we will never get any help at this way of doing but the old troops say they will stick to it til the last man falls before they will give it up do you think the people at home ever takes a thought of what is at stake please answer / this in your next letter i dont think they do or they wouldent stay at home and see the men fight a way til they are all gone and if they do this they will see after while that it would ove been mutch better for ove came out when they could ove helped us and we could ove helped them but they will have all to do after while themselves or leave the country go to ruin whitch i believe they would do before they would risk their life to save it i think we will moove in a fiew days over the mountain our division mooved on yesterday and i think we will moove in a very fiew days i hope we will for we are in a very poor place for water watter is scarce here this leaves me well and i hope by the time this reaches you that you will be well and that you will listen to the contense of this letter i will close my love to all from your son Abram Kipp

 

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