This collection contains a series of wartime letters written by James Aaron Fuller from 1862 to 1864. Another letter, written in November 1865, is from Ellen Whiteside to Fuller after the close of the American Civil War. Fuller was a Private in Company K of the 47th Alabama Infantry Regiment of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.

Also included in this collection are: ● State pension applications from 1897 to 1924 ● A brief service record of Fuller ● A photocopy of a book, titled “Historical Sketches of the Forty-Seventh Alabama Infantry Regiment, C.S.A.”, by Cpt. Joseph Q. Burton, Pvt. Theophilus F. Botsford, and William Stanley Hoole, published in 1909.