Scope and Content From the Collection: This collection consists of a single letter from Union soldier R. Buckley, writing from Rock Island to his mother and wife. The writer is likely Ralph Buckley of the 197th Pennsylvania Infantry. Buckley writes briefly of personal matters, health, and weather and is happy to report that the health of his regiment is improving: "I have not a man that is dangeriously ill ..." He notes that the regiment has had two deaths and that he will enclose papers for Mr. Evans so that he can collect the...