Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection contains three letters written by Matthias Harter, a soldier in Company C, 9th Iowa Infantry, to his wife, Sallie Hall Harter, during the American Civil War. In the first letter, written at Davenport, Iowa, on September 28, 1862, Harter requests many foodstuffs from home and describes swimming and bathing in the river with other soldiers. Writing from Rome, Georgia, on October 9, 1864, Harter conveys news of the recent Battle of Altoona Pass and of the declining reputation of...