Correspondence written by Lieutenant William Henry Harrison Shibley (1840-1932) and Private John Samuel Shibley, both of Company G, Twenty-second Arkansas Infantry, to their parents living in Van Buren (Crawford County). The Shibley brothers enlisted together in June 1862 and remained with the Confederate army until the end of the war. They participated in the battles of Prairie Grove (Washington County), Helena (Phillips County), and Jenkins' Ferry (Grant County), and were stationed at various points in Arkansas, Texas, and Louisiana before surrendering at Fort Smith (Sebastian County) in May 1865. The letters in this collection were written between August 21, 1862, and August 19, 1863, and document the Shibley brothers' experiences in the weeks prior to the fight at Prairie Grove, at a military camp near Little Rock (Pulaski County), and the movements prior to the battle of Helena. Probably due to their subsequent visit to their parent's home, no letter details the battle of Prairie Grove, but the Shibley brothers did describe at some length their combat activities at the battle of Helena. All of the letters in this collection have been published by Ruie Ann Smith Park in "Dear Parents": The Civil War Letters of the Shibley Brothers of Van Buren, Arkansas (Fayetteville: Washington County Historical Society, 1963).