Camp South of Nashville      

December the 17^th 1862

 

Dear Mother

                     I take the pleasant oportunity once more ove answering your kind and welcome letter whitch i received a fiew minuets a go and i was hapy to hear ove you all enjoying good health i have had very good health for some time past and i am getting a long as well as i could expect we have mooved out from Nashville 6 miles south and we are expecting a battle evry day of our life so was our regiment and two others and one battery was ordered out this morning for forage we went out side of our picket line 4 miles and got some forage and shelled the rebles a fiew minets and then we returned to camp we dont want to bring on a engagement for we ant prepared for a battle here now we cant get one days grub a head we have only one railroad to get the grub for the hole army if we was to fight them here now and whip them we couldent folow them up to do any good i have confidence in our General Rosecrans he has the first battle to loose yet he inspected our division the other day and he told us that Negleys division made the best apearance of any division he ever inspected and he said our regiment marched better to the front than any regiment he ever saw he give us a very good blow i tell you we have a good regiment and a bragg regiment about here and they will fight for i have saw them tried for my part i am full of fighting but if i have to do it i can they is a report here that the malishey disgraced the state when they was out their two weeks they say when they was drawed up in line for fight some said they wouldent fight out of their own state and some of them throwed a way their guns and wouldent fight a tall i think it hard to have the old state / disgraced by them after all the old troops fighting so hard and keeping up the name of their lovely state i hope it is false write to me and leave me now all a bout it and what Laband thought of his spree to harisburgh i was very glad to hear of David Faulk being a live i herd he was dead i am hapy indeed to hear from him i supose Hery Hanks eyes is getting better now o what men like that would get out here if they was here i think Alie might write me all the little perticulars a round their but she never dose it what hary went home for i cant tell unless he was tiard soldering it ant only the privets that is tiard of it officers with the rest you want to know if i can get staying with sproulle when i was in town i could get to see him some times but now i cant see him a tal i herd from him to day he is getting better and i think Wilson will take him home soon the rest of the boys are all well i got two dolars in your letter we was paid of but all of mine was on the lotment roll and you will get a order from dan to draw it 52 dolars is what i have coming their and dont you take any money but goverment money for it is all a speculation a mongst the men in Kittanning you need not send me any more money for i had some money lent out that i got and that will do me a while i am very thankfull to you for what you have done for me i hope i will get to see you all once more i will close this letter hoping to hear from you soon a gain

                                                                       

yours truly Abram Kipp

 

Eliza Bann

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