These records can be searched by geographical locations, the name of the school, and other criteria, and the database links the records retrieved to the digitized images of the individual photographs. The 5,465 records cover approximately 19,800 pages of correspondence and other documents that provide a detailed picture of Virginia government during the Revolutionary War and immediately after. Many of the manuscripts describe the difficulties of raising and provisioning a national army and state militia. There are also reports of military maneuvers, battles, Indian affairs, and economic and monetary conditions. The digitized images of the documents are linked to the database records.
Some letters have a draft reply attached.