Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection contains three letters from Emery Washburn Frost, a private in the 14th Battery, Massachusetts Light Artillery, at the end of the American Civil War. Two of the letters are addressed to Frost's brother Eli; the third, to his mother. Writing from camp between City Point and Petersburg, Virginia, on April 14, 1865, Frost describes in detail the military defenses of Petersburg and the conditions in the city following the Confederate evacuation. He also discusses the purchasing...