Collector. Correspondence (1862–1863) between Lt. Lyle Garrett of the Twenty-third Iowa Infantry and his wife, Mary Garrett. His letters describe camp life, attitudes toward officers, and troop movements in Missouri, Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. Garrett also describes the general conduct of the war, soldiers’ views about action in other theaters of the war, attitudes concerning the South, slavery, and the destruction caused by the war. The collection also contains three letters (1866–1893) regarding the Garrett family in general. Transcripts and scanned images of the collection are available on ShareOK: Transcribing the Past Project Data.