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to let you know how i am getting a long i am well and getting a long as well as i could expect i hope theas fiew lines will find you all enjoying the same great blessing but i received a letter from William Sproulle on yesterday and i was hapy to hear from him but he tells me some of the people a round their hant mutch sympathy for the soldiers only them that has friends in the army and all of them kind wants peace in favor of the / south i was a stonished to hear of the stuff i hope that evry man of them will be drafted and brought out in the field and made fight or go to the reble side and leave them pertect them i think it would be a good idea to leave the reble army invade the north a while then they would now what war is for my part i would sooner kill sutch men as that as the rebles no person has the least idea of what a forsaken country this state and kentuckey is sense the armey has got into them you cant see a rail scarcely and very fiew houses and most of the wood is cut down and burnt it is a hard site / i hope i will see the day when i can talk to some of them but it is allways the case the men that dose the work and stands all the hardships has no praise when theas tories and traitors gets the profits this is plain to evry person i think if they is any true men left at home they oughtent to alow sutch things to go on i go in for killing evry man of them i supose Henry Hawks eye is getting better sense he has started to the academy the coward and a traitor to his country while we are out here they are all runing us down calling this lincolns niger war i would like to see some of them at presant our regiment was at nashville this week to get new guns 

 

i hant got a answer to my last letter i wrote to you we are stil at the same place but i think we will move on soon i will send you my likeness in this letter i got a letter from John Potts on yesterday he is well and walter and all the rest when you write to walt tell him to send his letters by way Louisville for all his letters goes by way of Cairo and they are old by the time i get them write soon as you can and i will do the same yours truly Abram

                                                                                                                       

Eliza Bann

 

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the boys is all well except George tailor he is in the hospital at Nashville with a straned leg

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