Camp Bethel Tennesee Dec 14th 1862    Dear Eliza    I thaught I would write you a few lines  that I am well at pressent and I hope this may find  you the same/ I have bin looking for a letter from you  but in vain/ I doo not know what is the reason why  you don   t write to me/ this is now the thaird letter  that I have writen since you have writen/ I would  like to know if you have got that muny from Tom  White yet and that ten dollars from Mrs Pease/  I begin to think you will be wanting som muny  before long/ thair is some talk of us giting pait  off by the tenth of next month/ I hope it  will be so for thair is a gread many that is in  nead of muny to sent to thair fammilys/  I know nothing new to write at pressent  as thair has nothing occurred here since I  have last writen to you/ I have just returned  from Church/ we have now preching evry sunday  and prayer meeting in the evning and prayer  meeting on wensday evnings and always crowdet/  thair is a gread ele of interest taken in these  meetings/ I go whenever I can and injoy them  very much, your affectionate Husband  J. G. Burggraf    write soon now  take notis of this