Letters, 1861-1863

This collection contains the letters of John Collins Enright, a soldier in the 18th Virginia Infantry during the Civil War. The letters are in the form of transcripts (71 pages), made by Enright's wife in 1899. Enright writes from various locations in Virginia, including Danville, Manassas, Centreville, Germantown, Fairfax, Warwick, Yorktown, Richmond, and Charles City. His letters discuss his company's formation, early troop movements and skirmishes in northern Virginia, the Battle of First Manassas and its aftermath, camp activities, his duties as orderly sergeant, the Siege of Yorktown, the Battles of Williamsburg and Seven Pines and the Seven Days' Battles.