These letters cover family life, conscription, and General William Tecumseh Sherman's famous March to the Sea. These letters also show Weaver's growing weariness in their discussions of total war and war fatigue (later known as shell shock and post-traumatic stress disorder).

These letters deal with many of the topics listed above, but either were never dated or their dates can no longer be deciphered.

These letters, primarily written to Milton Weaver by his mother, Ann, deal with masculinity, life on the Northern home front, Copperheads, and conscription.

These letters deal with the topics covered in Folder 8, but their dates cannot be determined.

This correspondence focuses primarily on a Democratic Convention and sickness in the Weaver family.

These letters deal with the period following Milton Weaver's death on September 1, 1864. They include the letter from Captain Walter Crook, Milton Weaver's commanding officer, announcing his death, letters of bereavement, and discussions of the Presidential election of 1864.

These poems discuss the concepts of duty and death as well as Sherman's March to the Sea.

These envelopes, probably originating with the correspondence catalogued earlier, are particularly notable for the patriotic logos that decorate many of them. Others bear personal messages and miscellaneous doodling.

These documents consist primarily of invitations to various parties, but the folder also includes such items as an 1888 bill of sale to Robert Weaver.

The items in this folder include innovative recipes for hair wash and toothache medicine

This image constitutes an undated tintype of Milton Weaver in Union uniform.

The correspondence in this folder deals primarily with guard duty, military drills, and Company F's Prussian drillmaster.

These letters cover Confederate prisons, military camp life and drills, the environment of occupied Nashville, Tennessee, patriotic symbolism, family life, and military operations in Middle Tennessee.

This material discusses the condition of occupied Nashville, military operations in Tennessee and Kentucky, guerrilla warfare, foraging expeditions, General William Starke Rosecrans, and finally the city of Murfreesboro, Tennessee.

This correspondence discusses the battle of Stones River, Milton Weaver's family history, the environment the 74th Ohio has encountered in Tennessee, life in camp, and Copperheads.

The letters in this folder are devoted primarily to two military encounters: the Battle of Lookout Mountain and the Siege of Chattanooga.