...a little more extra you say all the girls sent their respects to me i would like to know who they are tell some of them to write to me and i will try to answer them i dont care mutch if you dont eather for i hant no chance to write i wrote to Manda M^cKalliss a fiew days a go i will send All a ring in this letter that is made out of a cocoa nutt shell it is a queer thing to make a ring out of do you give it to her and i will send her a shell ring that i got at the tennessee river the next letter tell all of them girls i am well and i wish them well tell them i am still in Tennessee and alive believing the war will soon be over so i can get to see them a gain

                                               

this is all at presant

                                                           

write soon Abram Kipp

                                                           

Eliza Bann

 

Direct as before and it will

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