Chattanooga June 5^th 1864

 

Dear mother

                   I now seat my self to write you a fiew lines in answer to your kind letter whitch i received to day and was glad to hear ove you all enjoying good health when i wrote to you last we had orders to go to the front as railroad gard so i did not get saying mutch well we went and was four days gone going out they rebs attacted the train after they had toren up the track and throwing the train of they fiered in to us wounding one man of Co A ove our regt and very bad but we soon made them light out for the woods and coming back we run into a nother train which had a regt on and wounded 80 men of that / and one of Co C of our regt that was all the accidents on our trip they is stil fighting going on in front i think old Sherman will beat them yet he charged some parts of the reble lines a fiew days a go and was repulsed but he lossed no ground that he held before the fight he lost some three thousand men killed and wounded the report here is that Sherman has sent two corps over the river in rout for Atalanta and atlanta is 8 mile from the river so if this is the case they rebs will have to leave the weather here is tremendious hot our regt got orders of the evening of the third to march with two days rashions they left a bout dusk dident take anny thing except rashions they marched in direction of lafyette Georgia they expect a / body of rebles their i was left here to gard what was left behind me and several other ones but we are expecting the regt in to night they was some wounded came in on the carrs yesterday wounded with picks and shovels the reason of that our men has dug up that close on them neather party dare look up for fear ove a ball hitting them so they throw tools at one and anoth so you can gude for your self wheather they ant close on them i wrote to you but a fiew days a go and wanted you to send me fifteen dolars so if you get this letter first you will oblige very mutch by sending me that amount as we hant been paid for 6 months and no sine of being paid yet so i need it or i would not send for it i have to by my tobaco and i could by / vegetables here now if i had money which i now would be good for me or any person else that hant had any as long as i have i never saw the weather as hot as it is at presant i see by lideas letters that David Faulk is home i think if we are spared til the first of October that we will get out well i hardly know what to write it is to hot to write a long letter i will close hoping to hear from you soon a gain

                                                                       

Abram Kipp

 

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