Primarily Civil War letters of Thomas C. Omary or O'Mary to his wife, Elizabeth, in Bowdon, Georgia, while he was serving in the 56th Regiment Georgia Volunteers, Company C in Vicksburg, Mississippi, in Tennessee, and in north Georgia. In May 1864, he was in a Kentucky prison. Also included are the letters of Elizabeth's Arnold family in Carroll County, Georgia, and of the Langfords in Warren County, North Carolina.