This collection consists of a typescript of letters written between Julian M. Burnett and his wife and friends during his incarceration at Fort Delaware. Burnett writes to his wife while en route to the prison explaining to her that the charges against him are false, as it was another man named Burnett in another company who fired upon the Union soldiers, and not he. He asks his wife and friends to send letters to the Union generals in charge stating that he is innocent. The letters continue from prison, where Burnett falls ill. Also included are letters to him from a friend in Maryland and letters from his wife to officials asking for his release. There are also letters to his wife telling of Burnett's death in 1865 after his release, including letters from his traveling partner, Charles Trezevant, and from the family at whose home Burnett died. The typescript is titled, 'The Odyssey of Julian Burnett;' the letters are arranged chronologically.