Murfreesboro Tennessee       

March the 17 1863

                       

Dear Mother

                                                I seat my self this beautiful morning to answer your kind and welcome letter that i received on yesterday and i was hapy to hear from you all being well well mother my throat has got a bout well a gain we have had a fiew very nice days and to day the weather is warm and beautiful some of the Rebs here is commencing to make garden but i supose the soldiers will get the benefit of it well you wouldent tell me any thing a bout the draft i would like to hear all a bout it in fact all the boys in the company is anxiously to hear from them and who it will be i am glad you got them trees if they grow they will be / a nice thing. i hant had a letter from Walt for some time the last he was well i had a letter from Sarah Potts a fiew days a go they was all well i wrote to Tom Stevenson a fiew days a go you want to know if we have any preaching we hant for our chaplain is gone home sick some time a go but they is niger church evry Sabath gust a cross the street from our quarters so we listen to him some times they is a white man takes his place some well how is the coperheads getting a long their now well mother you want to now if i am a good boy i am a good deal better boy now then when i left home and if i have the luck to go home a gain and you are living you will say so your self you need not be uneasy a bout me for i will do what is right 

 

i had a letter from alie a fiew days a go i answered it a fiew days a go you say Jim Kulp was sick i was sory to hear of it can you give me Ann Macentiers address in your next letter you can get it from ban please send it to me if you can i would like to rite to her and see if she is stil living i now she is in allegheny Citty but that is all i know of her well i gess from what we can hear here the people in Westmoreland and butler county is arming them selves and taking to the woods to save them selves from the draft it would do me good to hunt sutch boys as that i supos they will soon begin to plow and sow well mother it is reported here the rebles has evacuated Vixburgh and if it is so we will be apt to / have some hard fighting here to keep them back but our army is in pretty good condition at presant and all in pretty good spirits when you hear from the army of the cumberland you can expect to hear of something good

                                               

so good by Dear mother

Abram Kipp

 

write soon

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