Dolton's Civil War letters to his German immigrant wife Wilhelmina (Minnie) Christliebe Nietzsche and diaries provide detailed and highly descriptive information about daily military life, the people and scenes he encountered, politics, and the need for and consequences of the war.

Postwar family and business correspondence, diaries, and printed ephemera from Illinois, and after 1871 from St. Louis, document Dolton's wholesale merchandising business, his difficult family relationships, and involvement in Veterans and political organizations.

Includes correspondence, diaries, printed ephemera, photographs, artifacts, and research materials and transcriptions for "The Path of Patriotism: Civil War Letters of George Edwin Dolton" by Theodore A. Dolton. Transcriptions have been interfiled with original letters.