Lieutenant George Harold Byrd and Lieutenant George S. Fox Jr. wrote the bulk of these letters to Rose Harwood in Trenton, Tennessee and later at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia during World War I. Both men intended to marry Harwood upon returning to the United States. Byrd served with the 327th Infantry, 82nd Division in France and was killed by an artillery shell in the Argonne Forest on October 11, 1918. He signed the bulk of his letters to Harwood as your little soldier boy; the last is signed your husband. Fox served in an administrative capacity and never saw battle. Other letters from Captain Scott Candler (328th infantry), Chaplain Chisley L. Bowdin (327th infantry), Lieutenant C. M. Adams, and Captain Paul Beck express the writers' condolences on the loss of Lieutenant Byrd.