The Augustus Smith Family Collection consist of two letters--one (1864) from Smith in Greenville, Tennessee, to his mother, and another (1866) to General Alex E. Smith, his father, in Rural Mount, Virginia, from an unknown person, telling of his daughter-in-law's death. The collection also includes newspaper clippings concerning the American Civil War by Selden Nelson, a genealogy of the Gammon descendants of Joseph Hamilton, an obituary of Elizabeth Smith the wife of Augustus Smith and daughter of Joseph Hamilton, and other articles from various authors.