Scope and Content Note From the Collection: The collection contains materials regarding the Harper family, including a letter from Rachel Harper writing from Montezuma, Indiana, to one of her sons informing him of the death of his brother, Derastus Harper, who fought in the U.S. Civil War's Battle of Marks' Mills (Cleveland County, Arkansas), as well as of the birth of his nephew, William Albert; research notes and a transcription of the letter created by Jeremy Oborny; and genealogical notes on Daniel Harper and other family...

Scope and Content Note From the Collection: The collection contains materials regarding the Harper family, including a letter from Rachel Harper writing from Montezuma, Indiana, to one of her sons informing him of the death of his brother, Derastus Harper, who fought in the U.S. Civil War's Battle of Marks' Mills (Cleveland County, Arkansas), as well as of the birth of his nephew, William Albert; research notes and a transcription of the letter created by Jeremy Oborny; and genealogical notes on Daniel Harper and other family...

Scope and Content Note From the Collection: The collection contains materials regarding the Harper family, including a letter from Rachel Harper writing from Montezuma, Indiana, to one of her sons informing him of the death of his brother, Derastus Harper, who fought in the U.S. Civil War's Battle of Marks' Mills (Cleveland County, Arkansas), as well as of the birth of his nephew, William Albert; research notes and a transcription of the letter created by Jeremy Oborny; and genealogical notes on Daniel Harper and other family...