This collection contains correspondence and other papers associated with Washington Brown, captain in the 145th Pennsylvania Infantry, who died of wounds received at the Battle of Fredericksburg. Among the correspondence in the collection are four letters from Brown to family members, including a copy of a letter written to his wife on the morning of the battle in which Brown would be fatally wounded; three letters from Brown's parents (Conrad and Elizabeth Brown) and a letter from Conrad Brown to his wife, written from the hospital in which his son was recovering; letters from Ed L. Taylor, Lt. James H. Hamlin, George Coleman, and Conrad Brown regarding the personal effects of Washington Brown; and a letter from John C. Sennett and George Royer of Company I convalescing in the post hospital near Alexandria. The collection also includes an invoice for the use of a hearse from C. W. Stuart of Erie; a copy of the last words of Washington Brown; and a "personal memoir" containing brief biographical information on Washington Brown.