Camp that never shal be forgoten

 

December the 2 1862

 

Dear Mother              

I seat my self this evening to answer your kind and welcome letter whitch i received on yesterday and i was sory to hear ove alie being sick i was hapy to hear ove all the rest of you being well i am well at present you want to know how i am geting a long and how i like soldering i am going to tell you the truth i am very tiard living the way we have to get a long we are all tiard soldering i often think of home but i know i cant get to see you we are working on the fortifications evry day but we get full rashions and that suits us very well how long we will stay here is more than i can tel Ab Kinison is well Dan Shearer Bobb Smith Frank Michell John Boyle Johnson Reed are all well Capt Harvy is discharged and gone home William Sproulle is still lying sick in the hospital he is getting better slowly his brother Wilson is here now tending to him i dont know whether Wilson wil take him home or not if ever they was a sceliton Bill is one no person would know him now you herd i was killed i am still living and getting a long as well as i could expect our lieutenant M^cue has resigned and gone home and the men cared very little they has 11 officers resigned out ove our regiment inside of two weeks soldering is got to be a old thing to us they is a great many men diserted a round here our regiment has none diserted yet but i am a fraid they will for they are all tiard of this kind of war            turn over /

 

we hant had any preaching for 5 months we have to work evry sundy or we are on picket or gard you say Jim Wilson is getting better i thought we would get well as soon as we would get home Bobb smith told me to day that Dave Faulk died at home with his wound if that is so i want you to write to me and leave me know i dont believe it a tol i think dan and walt has got into a regiment that has a good time of it i do think that our regiment has saw as mutch hard times as anny regiment has saw you sayd that [faded] well i was glad to hear of her i think a bout her now and then but it dont do me any good but i hant give up geting home i mayent but i live in hopes i think it will be a long time before i get home if i stay til the war is over i have no idea of this war being over for three years we are expecting to be paid evry day now and they is some talk that it will be paid in Kittanning if is i will write to you right of and leave you know all a bout it i got 2 dolars in my letter and was glad of it for i needed it you need not send me any blanket for i cant cary it tell alie to write to me and ban to i guess from all accounts the two weeks men disgraced our state i herd they was drawed up in line of battle and they refused to fight out of their state i would like to see them try them selves in tennessee tell ban to write to me and tell me all a bout it this is all at presant write soon as you can

                                                           

Abram Kipp To Eliza Bann

 

Direct Nashville Tennessee

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