Genealogical material and letters relating to the family, many by Richard (Dick) W. Milner from his home in Pike County, Georgia, to his future wife, Sallie, and to her parents. Most letters are incoming correspondence from siblings and in-laws. Dick's brother-in-law, Austin Harris, described his trip from Griffin, Georgia, to Mobile, Alabama, while he traveling onboard the St. Charles steamboat enroute from Montgomery to Mobile. Other letters reflect a concern for Christian living and the growth of the Baptist denomination; not only does Dick write to Sallie about this from Arkansas in 1859, but also Sallie's brother, Richard S. Ravens, comments on the same subject when describing his new community in Claiborn Parish, Louisiana, in 1860. The Civil War period letters among family members, especially the women, concern the difficult times, wounded acquaintances, and the location of Dick Milner's company in Virginia.