Scope and Contents The author of the two letters is uncertain and is partly based on donor information; handwriting differs between them. The first letter is dated only July and seems to be addressed to several sisters and to Richard House, suggesting he has not yet enlisted and that it is 1861. The author writes, "They have gone with old Stone wall Jacon . . . . I don't want to go with him now more . . . . he runes his men too much, . . . . " dating the letter to before Stonewall Jackson's death in May...