This collection contains two letters from the American Civil War and one dated immediately after the end of the war. There is also information related to certain units during the war and soldiers' military service records.

The Cobb's Legion Infantry, Company B, of the Confederate States of America, otherwise known as the "Bowdon Volunteers" was formed in 1861 by Charles A. McDaniel, the founder and first president of Bowdon College.

This collection consists of original letters and photographs, as well as copies of both, from the Hargrave family of Carroll County, Georgia.

An original letter sent to Mrs. Melindah J. Boyd Groce from Moses Gresham Herrin in Columbus, Mississippi to inform her that her husband, Confederate soldier Lewis Dudley Groce, had died in the Civil War in 1862.