Camp McClarment 3 miles in the woods   April 1st 1862 ) from the river    Dear Eliza    I thought I would write you a few  Lines that I am well and in good Health at pressent  thank God and I hope this may find you the Same/  I doo not know why I can not get a letter from  you/ Mr. Pease gets letters every few days and I   doo not know how it comes that I get non/ Mr. Pease  receivd a letter this    eavining- eavning and it seemes  that you dit not get the things all that I send  home in the box Mrs. Pease got, all the things  that ware in the bottom up to the 2 peasses  of brown paber are yours/ware one pair of new  Dubble blankeds with a gun and 2 hatchets and  a white handled whip in it and one sincle blanked  and one pair of drawers and a sack of coffee in it  all yours and the Box I Bought myself I thought  Mr. Pease explained it to Mrs Pease in a letter  that was in the box/ how the things ware/ Mr Pease  will explain it to Mrs. Pease how it was in his   next letter for he was sick at that time and not   able to be up/ I should have written my name on the   paber between the things and then thay would have  known all about it/ I sopose you have receivd  a letter from me stading what was in the box/  we are still in the woods encampt awaiting orders  to move for the next battle at Corrinth which  is about 18 miles from us  
        From what we can lern thair is a large  forse of rebles thair and we are to fight  them thair/we have so near as I can lern  about two hunderd thousand men here now and  Still more comming evry day and I think  we will be enouph for them/ it seemes thay  are going to make a strong stand thair/it is  thair last chance/ we have not got pait yet  and doo not know when we will be pait/ Some  thinks we will not be pait before May and  then get pait for 4 months/  I wish you would write me how the boys  get along and how thay are doing/ I hope  I shal not bere of being disobedient to you  and I hope thay will be al the help thay   can to you/ I can not tell when I shell  come home again/ there is no one allowd to leav  that is able for duty/ I must close my   writing with my Love and best wishis  to you all/ your affectionate Husband    J. G. Burggraf