Murfreesboro Tennessee Febuary the 20^th 1863

 

Dear Mother

             I seat my self this morning to answer your kind and welcome letter whitch i received on yesterday and i was glad to hear ove you all enjoying good health my health is good i received a letter from allie the same mail i received yours i wrote to alie last night and i got a letter from John Potts on yesterday they are all well their except Cal Hawk John says he is sick. John talks like if he was tiard of soldering and i expect walter will take my advice the next time if he gets through this safe i have a idea that congress will pass an act when they meet in march to keep the nine months men longer if needed i hope they wont for i would like walter would get home but i am a fraid they will have to stay longer John says they have good quarters. we are stil in Murfreesboro but i think we will moove on before long we are expecting a nother hard battle 40 mile south of this we expect we will have to fight hard i now. Dan Shearer is well i must tell you frank mitchell is going to leave our company he is going in what is called a roll of honer they are to be mounted and do duty sutch as scouting and any daring thing that may be called on they is five of our company going Johnson Reed is one of them but he wont go til something hapens to one of the rest sutch as sickness or any thing that may hapen them they was elected by the company. you speak about the money going down i dont now what to do a bout it you say things is very dear if things ant dear here i dont know any thing. i tell you mother the last time i was at nashvill we went the pike that parted the battle field and it is a awful site you cant go two rodds but what you will see graves of our poor soldiers / by acres acers and the trees and corn stocks is riddled by the balls for miles a round it is one of the most horriblest loocking places i ever saw and horses is lying on the field as high as 6 in a pile killed all togather it is awful. well mother where the battle was fought they is very nice little cedar trees from a foot high til two feet they are plenty of large ones. they are a good deal like pine trees but by trimming them a casionly they are a very nice thing some of the boys has sent some of them home to their friends in freeport if theirs goes home i think Johnson Reed and i will send some home to if we stay here any length of time they will be a nice thing if you get them i think we will try and send you a fiew of them and you can say then you have some thing of the bloody field of stones river as it is mostly called. the weather here has been very wet and stormy but the sun is out to day and it is very pleasant Mother i tell you no person has any idea what a talk they is in our army a bout the dimicrats at home the way they are carying on the solders has all swore vengance on them they are opposing on the poor soldier when he is out the soldiers says if they keep on and this has to stop in favor of the south they will kill the last one of them when they get home i am of the same opinion. give bill sproulle my best respects if you see him i received a letter from him and i answered it. i supose elaxander sproulles boys is getting a long as usual and Henry Hawk them is the kind of men i would like to see in the army. i want you to send me five dolars in your next letter as i need it at presant goverment money send me the boys is all well send me some stamps if you please tell liza i will write her a letter soon but i dident get hers this is all at presant   

 

yours truly Abram Kipp           

 

Eliza Bann

 

write soon as you can

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