This collection consists of a single letter written by Ed. [Edward] H. Rees, of Company E, 15th Illinois Cavalry during the American Civil War. Written to "Dear Cal" from Jefferson Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, the letter is dated September 9, 1863. Rees writes of the advantages of Memphis as a place of quarantine. "You can get anything you wish and at on half what you have to pay at Corinth," he writes. He also mentions others from his company ("Blakemor" [probably James Blackmore] and Jas [James] Wood) and describes his condition and treatment: "I am taking but verry little Medicine but they cup me almost every day Round the region of my liver & stomeach and sometimes between the shoulders and give me A coald bath every night."