Camp Near Murfreesboro Tenna

May the 13^th 1863

 

Dear mother

                     I seat my self this morning to answer your kind letter that i received on the 12^th and was glad to hear ove you all enjoying good health but i was expecting to hear from Walter in your letter but from what i can hear of the Patomack army you wont get any word from them for some time i am well as usual and getting a long very well we get some very encouraging news here from that army but we cant put no confidence in the / news papers for one day they will be good news and the next day it will be contradicted so we cant tell any thing a bout we are stil in our old camp but we dont know what day we may have a battle i think our General is waiting to see what will be done on the Patomack but we all feel confident that we can do our part here if we get keeping our General all we are a fraid of is that they will take him from us i hope they wont for the men has all confidence in him we know if he cant whip the rebles here no person else can i was glad to hear of lida going to school i supose she will have to ware pretty good clothes to be up to / the rest of the students i now this my self so i will send you five dolars in this letter to buy her some clothes to make her loock as well as the rest i know she will be pleased with it tell her to learn all she can. i gest got in from picket on yesterday we had a nice time and good weather whitch we very seldom we have they any news for me to write to you this time i want you to write as soon as you get word from Walter and let me know if any thing happened him as i hant mutch to write this time i will close hoping to hear from you soon

                                                                                   

Abram Kipp

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