Scope and Content From the Collection: This collection consists of a single, three-page letter written by Samuel D. Foster, a Union soldier during the American Civil War, to William Johnston and family. Writing from the medical inspector's office at Louisville, Kentucky on August 17, 1864, Foster is apparently responding to an inquiry from the Johnstons regarding a soldier named John (almost certainly Corporal John W. Johnston of Company H, 89th Ohio Infantry). In relaying news of John, Foster describes conditions at the...