This collection contains a photocopy of a memoir written in 1909 by former Confederate soldier S. C. Roddy, who served in Company F of the 39th Georgia Infantry during the American Civil War. The author writes about his experience during the war from enlisting in late summer 1862 until the regiment's surrender at Greensboro, North Carolina, in May 1865. The author also notes that the civil war was an "unholy war between the states".