Letter written by Griffis from his home in Stewart County, Georgia, to Mary Elizabeth (Lizzie) Wilmot Allison, the daughter of his Civil War captain, Daniel Hicks Wilmot (ca. 1831 - 1882), whose life he had saved at the Battle of Lookout Mountain in 1863. "I managed to get him on the train by toating him nearly 3 miles . . . ." The men served in the 17th Regiment Georgia Volunteers, Company A.