<div class="description">
The letter was written during the Siege of Vicksburg in Mississippi during the American Civil War by an unknown Union soldier to his brother and sister. It describes his brigade's participation and his killing of a Confederate soldier.</div>
This file was contributed to Wikimedia Commons by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Indiana_State_Library_and_Historical_Bureau" class="extiw" title="w:en:Indiana State Library and Historical Bureau"><span title="research library in Indianapolis, Indiana">Indiana State Library and Historical Bureau</span></a> as part of a cooperation project. The donation was facilitated by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Public_Library_of_America" class="extiw" title="w:Digital Public Library of America">Digital Public Library of America</a>, via its partner Indiana Memory.<span style="text-align:left">
<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://cdm16066.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16066coll31/id/538">Record in source catalog</a></li>
<li>DPLA identifier: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://dp.la/item/b2904278bc4d9704db55c2e1568287e8">b2904278bc4d9704db55c2e1568287e8</a></li>
<li>Indiana State Library and Historical Bureau identifier: <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://cdm16066.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16066coll31/id/538">http://cdm16066.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16066coll31/id/538</a></li></ul></span>