Dates: 1861 - 1862.

Photostat of a letter from Laura Burt to her sister-in-law, Mag Smith, dated December 20, 1861, from L. P. Tree, Alabama, and a photostat of a letter from John Burt to his sister, Mag Smith, dated June 12, 1862, from Columbus. John Burt served in Company C, Forty-second Alabama Regiment, and was killed in the Battle of Atlanta.