Letters center around the Samuel Prestly and Nancy Waits family of Oakgrove, Fulton County, Georgia, who moved to Alabama before 1860. When Prestly enlisted in the 44th Regiment Alabama Volunteers, however, Nancy and their three children moved back to Oakgrove as letters flow to and from her there. Included is a letter from Prestly's brother James W. in Dallas, Paulding County, Georgia, 1855, and an envelope to Leola V. Waits Acree, a daughter, in Hammond, Georgia.