Camp McClerment Tennasee 3 miles from Pitsburg landing April 3rd, 1862  Dear Eliza Your lang looked for letter has come to hand this eavining and I was very glad to here from you once more/this leaves me all well and I hope this may find you all the same/ you want to know what to doo with the lots/ I dont hardly know what to say about it what you shell doo/ I think you had better Mr Coakes have them and doo the best he can with them/ if will   be more then you can doo with the garden by the house this summer/ I sopose must be a hard Spring for you but I sopose it is Gods will to be so and if it his will   we will all meet again to enjoy 
        that social family circle again/ the children I sopose enjoy thair things very much and I wish I could see them with the things and I wish sometimes you could all be here to see all the soldiers and see them revewed/thay are revewing Trups evry day/ it is a beutiful sight to see 20,000 Trups together at one time and Bands of musick with them plaing/ thay have bin at it for 4 days revewing 20,000 a day close by our camp/ we are to be Revewed next Saturday/ we are as I have writen before in the woods and it is a beautiful plase/ the Treese are all geting green and the wather is geting warm and plessent now and I hope we will have a good time of it running the rebles/ I  think thair will be the greatest Battle fought that has bin yet for we are making the gretist Preperation for it/ all the  country around us seemes to be alive with Trups and more comming all the Time/ the Post stamps came in good time for I have not much alse to doo just now only to write when we are not moving/ i dont have much to doo only to cary  masigis around sometimes/ I think I have writen about all that will interest/ now at this  time I will draw to a close hoping you will write Soon again and I would like to have a letter from William and Frank and Lizzy and heare how thay get along and if thay are dood children to thair Mother and obay her what she says/ I hope thay all pray for thair Father evry night when thay go to bet and that he may return safe to them again  I lern from your letter that got the lankeds and things/ I hope you got the rite onse/ the double  blankeds are new and not worn/ write Soon as you can my Love to you all your Affectinate Husband  J. G. Burrgra  Send me more Post Stamps When you can