Contains the following types of materials: correspondence, organizational documents, maps / charts. Contains information pertaining to the following war: Civil War -- Eastern Theater, -- Northern Interior, -- Trans-Mississippi, Reconstruction. Contains information pertaining to the following military units and organizations: 81st Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment; 16th and 18th United States (U.S.) Veteran Reserve Corps (VRC) Regiments; Office of Assistant Provost Marshal General for Ohio and Missouri; volunteer recruiting service for Missouri; 4th Brigade (provisional), XXII Corps; Central Recruiting Office of I (Veteran) Corps; Freedmen's Bureau -- Southern Sub-District of Kentucky. General description of the collection: The Charles F. Johnson papers include colonel's almost daily letters to wife, September 1861 to December 1864; served with 81st near Washington, DC during 1861 Maryland elections in Siege of Yorktown until June 1862; with Veteran Reserve Corps in Columbus, Ohio, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Laurel, Maryland and Washington, DC; with 4th Brigade at Belle Plain, Port Royal, Battle of White House (Virginia), Cliffburne and E. Capitol Hill Barracks, DC; a few 1866-1867, papers on Kentucky and Louisiana.
