| Description | Typescript copy of a letter (now at the Iowa State Library, Des Moines) written in Welsh by Private Robert Davis, Company 'F', 25th Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry, from camp near Helena Arkansas, to his parents, brothers and sisters at Long Creek Iowa Welsh Settlement near Columbus City, Iowa, 30 January, 1863. Refers to the casualties suffered by his Company in the battles of Vicksburg and Arkansas Post, etc. The letter, which has a line by line English translation, is prefaced by a long note on the writer's family background by David A. Morris, Colonel United States Army, Retired. |