This collection includes a letter dated May 13, 1864, from a Union soldier named Charley at a camp near Woodstock, Virginia to "Friends at Home" during the American Civil War. He writes, "We are now about 50 miles from Martinsburg and expect to move on further tomorrow if not today ... we are getting up where the rebus are now & are liable to have a fight any day ... we shall have great success ... Gen. Sigel is called a good general ... affc. soldier, Charley."