Scope and Contents Letters, documents, newspaper clippings, memoirs, and genealogical charts. Correspondents include Laura Mitchell, Eliab Metcalf Allen, Purvice Irwin, Minerva herself, her husband Wiley Jarrett McClatchey, and others. Minerva's letter describes conditions in their Marietta, Cobb County, Georgia, household during and after the Union occupation in 1864. There is a memorial to her dead son and his photograph. Also includes many CSA [Confederate States of America] orders and newspaper...