This manuscript contains copies of regimental and brigade general and special orders documenting the activities of the Second Division of the Army of Tennessee under the command of General Grenville Mellen Dodge from 1 January 1863 to 14 January 1864. It begins with Mellen and the troops near Corinth, Mississippi, and ends near Pulaski, Tennessee, where the manuscript was apparently captured by a Captain Jasper N. Chaffin of the Confederate Army.

The collection also contains a small hand-written card labeling the manuscript signed by A. H. Chastain and a page of hand-written notes.