Curry family papers, 1862.

Open to research.

Portion of letter (1862 September 23; Washington, D.C.) from an unidentified Civil War soldier to his mother mentioning his brothers Thornton and Halsey Curry who served in Company I of the Seventh Wisconsin Infantry Regiment. The writer describes the death of Thornton Curry on the battlefield in Gainesville, Va., in August 1862, the writer's subsequent capture and release by the Confederate Army, and the death of John Eastman, another Civil War soldier from Boscobel, Wis., at a hospital in Washington, D.C.

The Curry family from Boscobel, Wisconsin.

Collection material in English.