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Scope and Content From the Collection: This collection consists of a Civil War memoir written by John H. Myers, a corporal in Company G, 55th Illinois Infantry. Rather than a strictly personal narrative, Myers' memoir provides an overview of military operations as he experienced them. He writes at length on military personnel (never naming individuals, however), likening officers to monarchs and privates to serfs, detailing several instances of injustices and incompetence committed by the former. Also discussed, often in a...