Murpheys Borow Tennessee

January the 13^th 1863

 

My affectionate Mother

                 I seat my self this beautiful morning to write you a fiew lines to leave you know how i am getting a long i am well at presant and i hope theas fiew lines may find you and all the rest of the family enjoying the same great blessing i am getting a long as well as i could expect i have not received any letter from walter for a long time when i do get one from him it is old by the time i get it for they letters all goes a round by Cairo so they are old by the time i get them i have wrote / to alie and Manda and i have not received an answer yet you said in your last letter they wrote to me but i havent got them yet you dont know how mutch good it dose me to get a letter from my old home and to hear that yous are all well it is a comfort to me but i hope the day will come soon when i can return to my home where i can talk to my friends as i used to i hope they will be some compromise soon for i hant any idea that we will drive them into the union for two or three years for they have a great many advantages of us it takes two men to their one for us to folow them we have to keep / half of our army behind us garding the railroad so we can get our provision they is some talk here that they is a brittish fleet coming in sight to raise the reble blockade i dont know what it will come to perhaps you will see more a bout it in the papers than i can tell you i will send you two rings in this letter you can give alie one of them i made them my self one is made out of a shell ove the tennessee river and the other is ove cocoa nutt shell when you dont get a letter from me regular you need not expect they they is any thing rong for often times we hant any chance to write so you can rest easy a bout me if you can get any stamps please send me some for it is allmost impossible to buy them here / i would like if you would let me know where dave faulk is or whether he is living or dead as i hant mutch to write this morning i will close hoping to hear from you soon give my best respects to all whome may inquier of me give ant mary my best respects and tell her i will write to her soon yours for ever Abram Kipp

                       

Eliza Bann

 

Direct Murpheys Borow

Tennissee

 

write soon and keep in good spirits

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