Scope and Contents Scope and Contents Correspondence of David Gardiner Tyler including correspondence with Julia McLachlan Gardiner, Julia Gardiner Tyler, John Alexander Tyler, Julia Tyler Spencer, and Harry Beeckman concerning the freezing of the James River in 1857; "enrollment" of men in the Confederate army; his separation from the family and his inability to communicate with them; the "kind" care of Mrs. Clopton; results of the Civil War; "My Life During The War Between The States," details of his service...