NARA Collection nwack — Collection nwack

This file unit contains a letter written on May 31, 1864, by Joseph E. Harvey of Company K, 9th Minnesota Infantry Regiment, to his wife, Mary L. Harvey, at Saratoga, Winona County, Minnesota. Mr. Harvey wrote this letter while he was aboard a Union vessel on the Mississippi River above (north of) Memphis, Tennessee. The letter indicates the vessel had passed Forts Pillow and Randolph that day and had obtained a supply of coal at Cairo, Illinois, the previous day. The letter is accompanied by the envelope in which it was mailed to his wife.