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Murffreesboro

Tennessee

 

Dear Mother

 

I seat my self this morning to write you a fiew lines to let you know that i am well and i hope theas fiew lines will find you all enjoying the same blessing i hant received a letter from you for two weeks but i expecting one in the next mail. i tell you Mother they is a great talk here in the army a bout the raising of the negro soldiers it is all the talk some says they will leave the army and some says it is right this is hurting our army very mutch what shal we do this army is made up with men gust like my self they hant any property / at home and the men at home that has property they wont volenteer and if the government goes to draft they will rebell. now we volenteered to come out here to save the country calculated the northern states was loyal to the union but it is plain to see they would rather see the southern confedercy acknolledged than to go out them selves or to leave their sons go i know and evry person nows that we hant a nough men in the field to crush out this war and if they ant a nough loyal men in the north to put down this war i think it nothing more than right to arm the nigroes and send them a long the coast where it is to sickly for the white man. them very people that is at home that has property and us poor men out here protecting their property and they will say them ornery men out their puting them / selves on an equal with the negroes they are aposing on us the worst kind of a way what are we to do will we lay down our arms and leave the rebles invade the north and abuse our loyal friends sisters and mothers and brothers on their account no we will try to whip them with what men we have and if we can use the negroes i say it is no disgrace for the country is all ready disgraced they call this the lincoln niger war why dont they come out and we wouldent want nigers this is hard we have now labored hard 18 months for our country and trying to safe it and then to see the way things is going it is awful they can go on but i think we will be the conqueror they is a good many men here and hant any property and they think if the wealthy people at home dont care they needent but if we did want to quit how would it turn out we would be shot like a dog / this is all true we have 18 months more to stay but i dont think it will last that long for the people in the north will cry out for peace as they have all ready done if they would shut their mouths and say nothing it would be a good thing if it wasent that the innocent people would suffer it would do me good to see the reble army invading the north i think their centiments would change fast. i do hope this will be over soon i can tell some of them me things they wont want to hear if the rebles is and has to be acknoledged i am sory for some of them men when the soldiers gets home if this bees the case the poor soldier will never forget what they have had to endure and to loose the country on their account some of them will have to pay for it. i have a good deal more to say on this subgect but i cant do it to day i got a letter from Walter on yesterday he is well

                                               

yours truly Abram Kipp

                                               

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