This collection consists of a single letter written by John N. Hull, a Confederate soldier in Company D, 4th Virginia Infantry during the American Civil War. Written in a camp on the Rapidan River near Orange Court House, Virginia, on November 22, 1863 (or possibly 1862), the letter is addressed to "My Dear Friend, who was apparently a Union sympathizer, for Hull writes, "I thought you yould [sic] be glad to hear from me if I am a Rebel as I bliev [sic] you are hard on them." Hull focuses on his personal attachment to the city of Winchester and of his romantic interests in the city and elsewhere. He also makes note of having recently enjoyed a 50-day medical furlough and mentions an impending review by Confederate President Jefferson Davis and the building of winter quarters. (Given the family names mentioned by Hull, the letter was likely written to Elizabeth Dieffenderfer of Winchester.)