Abstract

An account of the discovery of artifacts in the collection of the Historical Society of Southern California. Highlighted is the Civil War diary and a letter written by Charles Myers Jenkins, the only enlistee from Los Angeles to see combat for the Union during the Civil War. Included is a transcription of the November 1864 letter Jenkins wrote to his mother after his release from a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp.

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