Piper, Jonathan

Nashville Tenn

I take my pen to drop you a few lines to inform you that I am well at this time and I hope that these few words on my lines may find you in the enjoyment of the blessing of a kind preserved I am in the best of spirits now that we I have been in ?? Since I left home the last time and all the boys ar in good helth and fell determined to make a good Show if they get a chance to do so I would like to be out in th front if they woud not put us throug to hard but I know that they will put us throug from the ?? we left Louisville on the 7th and came her by rail and got her on the 9th and had the pleasure of meeting our friend daniel Skinner from Dry Run and you may think that we was not a little Surprised to meet him So far from home and all the boys was glad to her from the valley and all the rest of the friend in cold Pennsylvania We are at this time encamped 2 miles from this place and expect to go to Murfresboroug in a few days as the troops ar all gon up and I think that there is a battle in contemplation and you may look for stirring news from the department of the Cumberland as the Commanding General is in earnest about the matter an if the war will end it must come from the rest for the army of the potmoac is not worth a tinker cause as far as fighting is concerened for they ar defeted evry time they so fight and I think that they had better let us do the work and them do the talking for that is the best that my an at there is strong fortifications around this place and ar still strengthening them and soon they will def the Rebels to take Nashville and all the rest of the country we can easily defend all the troops think the war must end soon I will now close for this time as I must do some washing this afternoon I am as ever your brother Martin Piper

To Daniel R Piper
Dry Run Franklin PA

Martin Piper Nashville
Co. SGT PA Cav Tenn

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