This collection contains a single letter from Cyril H. Tyler, a sergeant in Company I, 7th Michigan Infantry during the American Civil War. Writing to his father from Fair Oaks, Virginia on Jun 9, 1862, following the Battle of Seven Pines, Tyler discusses mentions being fired upon by Confederate sharpshooters while eating breakfast, a recent skirmish between pickets, Casey's loss of 19 pieces of artillery to the Confederates, crossing the Chickahominy River, and the overwhelming smell of the dead after battle. The letter is accompanied by a stamped enveloped, addressed to Rufus Tyler in Kalamazoo, Michigan