Scope and Content From the Collection: 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...