This collection consists of the Civil War letters of Jesse Sumner Battle and James Norman Adams. Included is another notebook containing typed copies of these letters, an extensive genealogy of the Battle and Adams families, and addenda on some of the more famous members of the families, e.g., Thomas Holley Chivers, etc. The collection also contains two photographs of James Norman Adams and a copy of John D. Battle's published Civil War Letters of Jesse Sumner Battle, C.S.A. and James Norman Adams, C.S.A.