Wolcott, Eben P.

Soldier in the 28th Regiment Connecticut Volunteers, Company E, in the Civil War. Correspondence consists of letters to Wolcott in Pensacola, Florida, and New Orleans, Louisiana, from his family in Lakeville, Connecticut. Includes information about the Battle of Fredericksburg (December 1862), the death of Stonewall Jackson (May 1863), and the inflation caused by the war.