Little Rock Arkanses   September the 19th 1863  Dear Eliza,  I receivd a letter from you last Sunday dated the 25th of August and you may know that I was glat to here from you all and that you are all well as this leafes me at pressent/ we have seen a great many hardships since you was with us at Germantown but I have stood it very well/ better then I exspected I would when we started on this march/ I sopose you can here all the perticulars on our march from Mrs Pease for he writes evry thing that hapens on the way home and perticurly about the taking of this place and how Price  Sterling  run when we got here/ I wish we could have caught  back side thay think will get well/ Cpt Lockwood has just com back yesterday he had a very hard time geting to us he was nearly 3 weeks  on the road to us how would you like to take such a trip as that/ he says Dr. Mercer  Stephen F.  is giting beter I hope we shel soon see him with us again for the boys want to see  him very much/ it may be that we have to stay here this winter and if we do thair will not be much  prospect of my comming home soon for it is some 300 miles further the way we have to go then it was from Memphis/ I wish I could com and see you all/ I hope the children will be good and obedient to you and the time may soon som when we shel all be toegher again and live in peace one more your affectionate husband  J.G. Burggraf  write soon 
        inside-left but he is just like a flee when you think you are going to pud your finger on him he is not thair when your advance cavelry came  in to Town thay com with in one squre of him and then he  started and run 7 miles and his horse fell dea-d-t then he got on an other horse and went on and got away and from what we can lern he has gone to Texes which is about 125 miles from here and a large portion of his army has left him and gone hom. This is a beautiful country I should like very much to live in a country like this/ thair is som of the finest and richest land here I ever saw thair is som corn grows 15 and 18  feet hight and the Arkanses river is a beutifull Stream on  which steemboats can com upon except when the river is very low inside-right  which iti s just now/ thair was six steemboats here when we com and the rebles set fire to five of them and burned them up the last thing thay could do and since then we captured two more loated with provishon for them thair is a great many of our men sick in the hospital from the afects of our hard margis/ two of our men have died one oc Co. C. and one of Co. G but the sick ones are all on the mend we had but two men wounted in the fight that I know of and thay belong  to Capt. Vans batery that was with us at Germantown a peace of shel pasing through one and in to the  other the peace was 3 ingis long and 2 ingis wide and    of an inch thick passed through ones hip and in the  spine of the other/ the one the peace passed through has died since and the