Scope and Content From the Collection: This collection consists of a letter written by S. Wellford Corbin Letter, a lieutenant in the Confederate States Navy being held as a prisoner of war at Fort Delaware during the American Civil War. Writing to an unidentified woman (said to have been Mrs. Emily S. Brune of Baltimore, Maryland) on January 29, 1865, Corbin thanks her for the gifts of books, paper, and envelopes, then mentions several mutual friends in Charlottesville and Richmond, Virginia, including Ellen Mercer, Betty Maury,...