This collection consists of a single letter written by David Cunningham, a Union soldier during the American Civil War. Written at "Berkley's Station," Virginia (probably today's Berkeley, West Virginia) on April 26, 1865, the letter is addressed to Cunningham's friend, Mrs. A. E. Young. Cunningham informs Young that the report of his and Joseph's (probably Joseph Young) deaths is false, probably spread by a local Copperhead. "[H]oo ever it was," Cunningham writes, "pleas tell him to at tend to his one bisness us Soldiers Can at tend to our one wee now hoo gets killed and hoo dont." The writer continues by predicting dark times for the Copperheads ("thay ar played out as well as the war ..."), then expresses regret for the tears shed over his supposed death.