Scope and Content From the Collection: This collection consists of a letter written by Conrad C. Fisher, a corporal serving in Company B, 76th Pennsylvania Infantry during the American Civil War. Addressed to "my dear cousin" (Miss Nancy Jane Cozad), the letter employs phonetic spelling throughout and is dated "Chatnon Farm, Va., Jenuwar the 2, 1865." Fisher reports that he has just returned from a failed expedition to take Wilmington, North Carolina (following 22 days at sea, half-starved and covered with body lice), and he...