Scope and Content of the Collection From the Collection: Dolton's Civil War letters to his German immigrant wife Wilhelmina (Minnie) Christliebe Nietzsche and diaries provide detailed and highly descriptive information about daily military life, the people and scenes he encountered, politics, and the need for and consequences of the war.Postwar family and business correspondence, diaries, and printed ephemera from Illinois, and after 1871 from St. Louis, document Dolton's wholesale merchandising business, his difficult family...