Scope and Content From the Collection: This collection consists of a letter from George W. Ringlar, a Vermont resident, writing from Yorktown, Virginia, during the American Civil War, probably in 1862. Writing to his father, Ringlar states that he has recently been ill and that he had tried to join the army but was rejected by a colonel who said that "he had sick men enough already and did not see eny use in taking a sick man for a soldier." Ringlar refers to himself as a "stranger in a strange land" but is content in living with...