Consists of Civil War records, correspondence, financial documents, land records, ledgers, legal documents, lists, maps, obituaries, photographs, poetry, receipts, and scrapbooks of the Rivers, Paine, Abernathy, and Brown families of Giles County, Tennessee. The collection was originally assembled by Martha Rivers Adams, a historian and writer of a column for a Lynchburg, Va. newspaper in the 1940's and 1950's.United States History Civil War, 1861-1865.View this collection description in WorldCat.org: