Stil in the wilderness             

Georgia

June 15^th 1864

 

Dear mother

                I received yours ove the 5^th and was hapy to hear from you my health is good we are stil on the moove the weather being very wet has allmost caused us to stick in the mud but it cleared up yesterday and we mooved on as usual we had not stoped but would ove had to if the rain had continued wet we moove some distance evry day and evry time we stop for the night we build a breast works we are going slow but i think we are advancing shure we lost one man ove our regt yesterday [faded, paper hole] only wounded this has been a hard campaign on the troops they is some mountains in our front that the rebles is on in force but i think our Generals will compell them to leave without us storming their works we was badly used up on the 27^th of may gest two regts ove our brigade but we repulsed them when they charged us they made a bold charge we cut them up pretty bad we came in here last evening and we have now a good breast works but i supose the rebles wont charge us as they find it ant a paying business to charge us i estimate our loss sense we left Chattanooga at 15 thousand killed and wounded so you can gudge for your self wheather they has been any fighting down here we have been in a part of the country ove a perfect wilderness no open country woods hills hollows and a rough country generally / you give me [paper hole] for not writing oftener i write gest as often as i can it is impossible for me to write regular for some time the mail dont go out for a week at a time and often times dont get to now they is a mail going out but you needent be oneasy a bout me when you dont hear from me for some time for i cant write regular this is the third letter i have written sense we left ringgold and that was as often as i could possibly write under the sircumstances we expect some hard fighting before we get to atalanta the sound ove the artilery and musketry has never been out ove our hearing for a month the troops are very mutch woren out but they are all in prety good spirits you say they is a draft coming of a gain that is right to draft so when the three year men goes out so they can keep the army filled up and not leave the rebles get the advantage of us now i supose they is a great many men that will think nothing ove coming out now thinking the war is a bout over but i am a fraid some ove them will be [paper hole] a good deal but it is a good deal nearer over now than it ever has been yet the rebles charged on our left yesterday and was repulsed with heavy loss rebles prisoners reports that their reble General Polk was killed in the charge well i will close hoping to hear from you soon a gain give my love to enquiering friends i will write gest as soon as i can a gain

                                               

Direct as you did before

Abram Kipp /

 

 

June     the [faded] 1864

[faded] with thanks to god that i seat my self to answer your kind letter i received yesterday i was glad to hear you was well [section faded]

 

Grant is still after the rebs he is on his way to Richmond he is within 3 days march of Richmond [section faded] but he had hard work at the big battle it was a hard fite it lasted 8 or 9 days we lost heavy there was so many pensylvanians killed i think this summer will end the battles but i expect we will have trouble for a long time with the rebs [section faded] the weather is very warm and dry we have worked our corn and it is so dry [faded] Elisa is going to school from home she has been in leechburgh boarding she can go from home now the weather is [faded] going on to Pittsburgh the [faded] is for the use of the sick and wounded soldiers it is the greatest [faded] that has been yet it will last for three weeks i do hope you will get safe home i am so glad your time is so near out for it is a hard place to [faded] 

 

well abram this is a [section faded] the children all sends their love to you and ant mary and manda and cute [faded] i have wrote several letters to you since i got any if you get this i have rote you one a every week i still think you might get them i will rite as often as i did to you and you rite as soon as you can give me all the particulars as i hant mutch to rite i will close hoping to hear [faded] abram how i miss poor Daniel if you was only here so i could tell you how i feel no one misses him like i do but i must try and submit to god for his ways is rite but [faded] god will spare you [faded] home

 

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[?] Kipp

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