Murfreesboro Tennessee        March 14^th 1863

                       

Dear Mother

                  I seat my self this night to answer your kind and welcome letter whitch i received a fiew days a go and was glad to hear ove you all enjoying good health well mother i have had the bad sore throat for 4 or 5 days to day is the first i could make out to eat any thing and that was very little i tell you but i think if i dont get a new cold i will be all right in a fiew days a gain i received them five dolars you sent me and also them stamps you sent me they was one dolars worth of stamps i was glad to get them for it is all most impossible to get any here well mother i must tell you we hant a doctor in our regiment / they have all resigned and gone home we are left now with out any person our captain has been tending to me sense my throat got soar the soar throat is a severe thing i tell you but sutch things will hapen some times i received a letter from alie on yesterday it was dated Febuary the 13^th and i received a nother one from her to day it was a good deal later it was dated March the 5^th i will answer it tomorow if im able i dont want to hear alie talking all the time a bout me for not answering her letters now you can see how it is it tant worth while for me to answer that old one now and alie makes very bad writing but i dont care for that for i am glad to get word from home. the health of our company is very good and in fact all the regiment is in good health. but all the troops that left here is lying out in camp they is a great many of them diing of they is a large field in the / edge of town where the bury a great part of them and it is allmost full gest sense we came here it is hard to see so many good men diing off with hard ships and disposure but it is is a thing that cant be helped you say Hen Hawk got a cracker i am glad ove it i think if he gets gustice he will eat a great many of the same kind in the survice yet before this war is over. well mother what dose the coperheads think of the draft all troublesome spites me we hant got them out now well i gess the coperheads found out the soldiers in the field dident back them up in sutch a way as they expected if some of them was to come out to the army of the Cumberland the soldiers would give them a grave in tennessee. well i sent them trees to you some time a go i will expect to to hear of your getting them in your next letter / well i wrote to Manda and ban and i hant had any answer yet. gess they are afronnted at me a bout something i dont know what i hant had a letter from Walter for some time but i am expecting one evry mail well as i hant mutch to write i will close hoping to hear from you soon yours truly Adam Kipp

                                                                                   

Eliza Bann

 

write soon i wrote to alie that we was expecting to leave here but we are still here so write soon

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