This collection contains three letters written by George J. Whitman, of the 2nd Pennsylvania Cavalry, during the Civil War. The letters, written to Whitman's wife Ruth, focus largely on personal matters. Whitman provides instruction on managing their personal financial/legal affairs and having work done on their farm but eventually concedes the impracticality of his long-distance advice, writing, "[Y]ou must do with things as you think best I leeve evrything in your care and what you think best to do with our thinges you moust do it dont wate to aske my advise about it becaus you no that it takes so long to get leters from home ..." Elsewhere, Whitman defends his decision not to request a discharge: "[Y]ou no that I can do beter hear torge geting a living than I can to work a farm ... you dont want me to make a hog of my self think I had or to do some duty fore our counery fore what I have had you no that our countery needs all that can be spared ..."