Scope and Content From the Collection: This letter consists of a single letter written by Timothy S. Walker, a veteran of the 25th Maine Infantry working aboard a cargo ship during the American Civil War. Dated Georgetown, D. C. [i.e., Virginia], April 20, 1864, the four-page letter is addressed to "Friend Orrin." Walker writes that his ship had been to Alexandria, unloading its cargo of hay and grain and was in Georgetown to load coal bound for Boston. Walker reports a long trip: "We was almost a month to Alexendria [sic] --...