Presents genealogical information on the Southern Bensons, Dicksons, and Scruggs as well as many other related families. Several wills, letters, news items and other documents are reproduced, as are parts of pertinent census and tax records. Also included are the Civil War Memoirs of Lt. Peru Hardy Benson, Co. 1, 23rd Arkansas Infantry, and J. J. Dunkle's 1869 List of "The Immortal Six Hundred" Prisoners of War.