Pitsburg landing March 23 1862  Dear Eliz   As I can find lasure time to write to you I will and I  hope you will doo the same as I would like to here from you more/ this leaves me thank god well at present and I hope this may find you the same/ we have moved again up the River nearer the enemy/ we are out in the woods 3 miles from the River incampt waiting for further orders/ Thair is 130 Richmants here now/ Still more coming wich is about one Hundred Thousand men and Gen Buel is from what I can lern about 20 miles South of us with 100, 000 men/ I thin we will   make a seep through them soon so we can come home soon/ for I tell you thair is no fun in solgering thair is no plase like home/ but God knows what is best for us/ 
        Tell the children that thay must obay you and be kind to you while thair Dear Father is gone away/ and  I hope thay will plant something in the garden this summer and not let the grase grow to much in it/ and every chance I get I will sent something home to them/ we have not got our pay yet and doo not know ehen we will get it/ I sopose you would like to have some muny soon/ as soon as I can get some I will sent it  home/ Col Pease very unwell he is ont able to get around much/ he has the Diaree and can not get any thing to halp him much/ and it has weekend him down very much/ he was mort to much feligt at the battle at Fort Donnelson and just begins to feel it/ I know not where we shel be the next time I shel write/ when you write Direct your letter to Pitsburg Landing Tennesee in care of Col Pease  49th Illinois vollenteers/ your affection ate  Husband   J.G. Burggraf