Principally Draper's correspondence and notes on participants and their families in South Carolina military events in 1780. Varying amounts of biographical information were collected about John and William Adair; Francis and John Boykin; Robert Cooper; William Farr; Enoch and Frank Gilmore; James Harbison; William Henderson; James Hope; Elijah Isaacs; James Jamieson; James Johnston; William Lewis; James, Stephen, and William McElhenny; James Meek; William Milling; John Nixon; Christopher Strong; Thomas Taylor; John Winn; and Thomas Woolford.

The volume also contains an original manuscript order (October 10, 1781) from John Adair to Robert Cooper; copies by Draper of Revolutionary War correspondence of James, Thomas, and William Woolford from papers in Woolford family possession in 1872; and copies of a few letters by Elijah Clarke, Lord Charles Cornwallis, and Patrick Ferguson transcribed by Draper from published sources. Letters by James Hemphill relayed recollections and traditions obtained from “Aunt Phyllis,” daughter of an African black named Sam, who was captured from the Tories at Huck's Defeat.