This collection contains hundreds of letters written during the Civil War by many people including: Reuben M. Benjamin, Joseph Burnett, H. H. Clark, John W. Coleman, George B. Custer, John Franklin Day, Karl Donitz, Anna E. Dyer, Charles S. Elder, Rowland N. Evans, Rudolph Fry, Richard Gates, James Gill, E. E. Greenman, F. J. Herron, William H. Horine, Andrew Jackson, George W. Kent, Frank Leeper, Amos Mason, William P. McCain, William McCarty, Almon Morrow, Abraham Moses, James Murphy, John Preston North, Mattie Orendorff, M. W. Packard, Virgil E. Reed, Alonzo Smith, William Stillhammer, Charles D. Thompson, John Trotter, William Van Gundy, and Faire Wren.