Scope and Content From the Collection: The collection consists of a letter from Union soldier Charles W. Sleeper, a private and later Quartermaster Sergeant with the Massachusetts 7th Light Artillery, written to his cousin on August 24, 1862, from Yorktown, Va. The letter includes detailed discussion of the Confederate defenses in the area, miserable conditions at the Yorktown camp, the prevalence of illness among the soldiers, and other details of the Yorktown area, including mentions of Revolutionary War sites. ...