A letter to Woodward Manning from his brother Ira L. Manning discussing the death of their brother Elisha, the failing cotton crop, the hiring of freedmen, and requesting information on who from their hometown was killed in the war.
A list of burials with occasional notations on the individuals. Makes notations on the deaths of a refugee from Auburn, a wounded soldier from the Confederate Army and a soldier who died at the age of nineteen in the hands of "the enemy."