Extensive series of letters to this early Midwesterner. Harris lived in Logan, Hacking Co., Ohio, in Indianapolis, and Des Moines. Much of the correspondence is from his two brothers, but also consists of invitations, business letters, and a small number from friends who were soldiers in the Civil War. One from Camp Denison reads, "...we are having fine times here we drill eight hours a day the buglers go out in the woods to practis every morning there is about twelve or thirteen of us, you had better think that we make the woods ring..."