This collection consists of three letters from C. H. Evans, James Evans, and Mary J. Evans, of Iowa and Illinois, addressed to their brother, William E. Evans, a soldier in Company B, 6th Wisconsin Infantry during the American Civil War. The letters focus largely on family matters and news of mutual acquaintances. Writing from "Okoboggi" (Okoboji, Iowa), on November 2, 1862, James Evans notes that Samuel's knee is healing, and he writes an additional note to his friend J. (John) C. Heales, also of the 6th. The letter from C. H. Evans is dated from "Okobojia" on March 23, 1863, menmtions the recent deaths of W. A. Brown and David Knap [Knapp?] at Murfreesboro. Mary J. Evans, writing from Winnebago County, Illinois, on March 31, 1863, conveys news of the recent return of Dan Hubbart [Daniel Hubbart?], wounded and recently released from a Confederatte prison, and mentions that "the inhabetence are all leaving Okoboji on the account of the indians."