The Arkansas in the Civil War Message Board

Civil War letters

The Butler Center for Arkansas Studies is pleased to announce the digitization of the John Myers Civil War Letters collection. Myers served in the 28th Iowa Infantry and spent a good deal of his service in Arkansas. He also participated in the Vicksburg Campaign. Myers died of typhoid on August 14, 1863, while on the hospital ship R.C. Wood.

The letters can be viewed at www.butlercenter.org/civilwararkansas