This collection consists of Civil War letters from L.N. Barlow to his wife, Eliza, written from various stations near Richmond, Virginia, Columbia, South Carolina, Augusta, Georgia, and some counties of coastal Georgia. They largely relate to life in camp, with some mention of skirmishes, etc. There is also an incomplete poem in Barlow's hand. The collection also contains a fragment of a land grant to John Bennett of Chatham County to Lot 22-6-4, Cherokee County, Georgia, signed by John Bethune, Surveyor General, William A. Tennille, Secretary of State, and Wilson Lumpkin, Governor, with pendant seal.
The letters are very fragile and incomplete. Some fragments have not been matched with the letters in the collection.