White Station Tennesee  April the 19th 1863    Dear Eliza    Your letter of the 12th  has come to hand day before yesterday  and you may think that I am always  glad to here from you and how you  get along/I am sorry to here that  you suffer so much with your back/  it must be very hard for you to  get along but I sopose it is Gods  will it should be so and to be   thus seperated but I hope the  time may soon com when  we shall all be together again  to enjoy each others society in pease/  our Regement has not got such  good times here as we had in Bethel/  thair is so much gard duty to doo  here on this Railroad to keep the  
        inside     left  gurilles away from distroying it/  thay are all the time overing  around here to see where thay  can doo som damage/ some of  our men go out scouting most  evry day and bring in som of  them/ we caught one captain two  Lieuteunents and one privet last  Friday/ all well arund the captain  had a splendid hore sadle bridle  and three revolvers  we will get pait this week  sometime and I will sent  some muny home with  Owin Brease  Owen Breese / he will start  home as soon as we get  pait/ he has got his discharge  I must stop writing just  now the misqeters are bothering  me to much/ I hpe this   ma-g-y find you all well  as this leafes me the same  inside     right    I want Willy to write  again soon/ I think he had  improved very much in writing/  you can do what you are  a mind to about inshuring  the house    your affectionate Husband  J. G. Burggraf    write soon again  and dont let me  wait so long for a letter