This collection consists of two letters from Job Barnard, a First Sergeant in Company K, 73rd Indiana Infantry Regiment, to his fiancee Flora Putnam in Berrien Springs[s], Michigan. As a Union soldier, Barnard was stationed in Camden, Alabama, and writes about letters he has received, both from Flora and from friends and family, the goings-on of his regiment, reading poetry and articles in The Atlantic, and remaining friends with another woman. Also included is a scrap of cloth cut from a chair purportedly from the home of Confederate President Jefferson Davis.