Germantown Tennessee August the 14th 1863  Dear Eliza   I thought I would write you a few lines as we have had some very exiting times here since you left us and write you the news/ I will  first begin from the time you left me on the river/ as soon as you got away I went up town to the soldiers home and registerd my name and got my supper and then I went to the 6th cavelry which was about a mile from town and by the time I got back to town I got a purty good ducking in the rain and then after I got in bet I had to fight the misgeeters/ they came very near eating me up/ I looked next day as tho I had the measles/ then when I got back to Germantown I had the headacha very bad but since then I feal very well/ my ears  are better and I think I shell get along very well now/ Miller was dead when I got back and yesterday and to day we had very exciting times/ yesterday Capts Alexander  Thomas  Crucoff  Louis Krughoff?  and Berry John G. with-e- four men and a citecen got on to a hand car and went down to White Station and as thay ware comming back and got to Richway thair was som gurillis laying in som bushis and fiert in to them and cilled Cpt Allichsander very dengerusly wounted Capt Berry and two men 
        and one slitly and the rest of them came through safe/ Capt Bery has three balls in his right    geo-let and one man in Co. C. is shot in five places mostly in his hips and thys and another man in Co. C. clytly in the arm and the citycen-s- has 7 or 8 holes in him/ you  know that coffen I made for miller, well just before thay started from here Cpt. Berry and A. came in the shop and asked me who that coffen was for/ I told them anyone that wanted it and then Capt B lait him self right on in  to see if it would fit him and said it is most to small for him and told Capt A to buy it for it would just fit him and shure enough it just fitted him/ he was buirit in it/ the whole Rigement turned out/ it looked very sollom/ if you can recolect that old log house I showed you ad Rigway I stood picked at when we went to White Station that is the  place where thay ware and where it happent I must now close for-e- it is about train time I hope this may find you all well as this eaves me and I hope I shel soon here from you/ wards wife com to day she will be at the  hospital/ no more at pressent/ give my love to all your affectionate Husband  J. G. Burggraf