John H. B. Jenkins to Mary A. Benjamin, 1862 May 17

Letter from J.H.B. Jenkins, Cumberland Landing on Pamunkey River, 12 Miles from West Point, Virginia, to Mary Benjamin, Smyrna, Delaware. Jenkins provides a Union soldier's (serving in the 40th New York regiment) description of the Battle of Williamsburg including sketches of the Federal battle position near Fort Magruder, the ineffectiveness of Austrian rifles, a drawing of wagons used by the Confederate army, a description of Jamestown, the promotion of Philip Kearny, and the arrest of Thomas Washington Egan and Charles Smith Hamilton.