Scope and Content From the Collection: This collection contains a letter written by Henry Howland, quartermaster for the 51st Illinois Infantry while aboard the the steamer D. G. Taylor on the Mississippi River during the American Civil War. Writing on April 17, 1862 to his mother in Chicago, Howland makes general comments about his health, then notes that his division had captured 5,000 Confederates near Tiptonville, Tennessee. He then describes General Paine as "a most excellent man and a...