Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection comprises papers from the 1860s, consisting of twenty letters, an album of thirteen photographs, three newspapers, and sixteen military documents including ordnance and quartermaster forms, duty documents, and equipment lists, all collected by Charles E. Foote, an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War. The letters were written by Foote between January 1864 and November 1865 to his young fiancée, Kate La Rue, who was living in their hometown of Ypsilanti,...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection comprises papers from the 1860s, consisting of twenty letters, an album of thirteen photographs, three newspapers, and sixteen military documents including ordnance and quartermaster forms, duty documents, and equipment lists, all collected by Charles E. Foote, an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War. The letters were written by Foote between January 1864 and November 1865 to his young fiancée, Kate La Rue, who was living in their hometown of Ypsilanti,...