This collection contains financial documents from Dr. G. B. Thompson and J. H. Craigmiles of Cleveland, Tennessee, and span from 1863 to 1895. There are four bills of sale for enslaved men (John, William, Rhubin, and Charles) within the collection. Also included is a receipt of payment from 1862 when Craigmiles was the chief commissary agent of the Confederacy during the Civil War. Lastly, there are two checks written by Craigmiles from 1893 and 1895.

This circular, printed on lined paper, invites qualified veterans or their heirs to contact the firm of White & DeLany for assistance in claiming their Civil War soldier bounty. It provides the text of the two pertinent sections of the Congressional Act that established these bounties, before summarizing and explaining them below. It also gives directions to the firm's offices in Cleveland, Tennessee.