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Robert E. Lee writes to Samuel Cooper to request an order for General States Rights Gist to report to Major General J.C. Pemberton for duty with the troops under his command in South Carolina and Georgia. He also advises General Trapier to report to General Beauregard for duty, signed by Robert E. Lee, 8 April 1862. ; https://digitalcommons.wofford.edu/littlejohnmss/1257/thumbnail.jpg

Selected documents and transcriptions of correspondence from the Samuel S. Brooke Papers. The papers consist of five letters, 1862-1864, to and from family members, largely concerned with personal family matters, but with some references to the war and civilian life in Fredericksburg and Richmond, Virginia. Other topics include the 47th Virginia Infantry Regiment, including comments about camp life. In addition to the correspondence, the papers contain commissions, orders, certificates

Obituaries for 1894, including ones for former Iowa Governor Samuel J. Kirkwood, state legislator Thomas Mitchell, Iowa-born lawyer Thomas S. Wright, and others.

An obituary discussing the life of Raphael Samuel, a founder of the New Left Review, who died of cancer in 1996.

The Confederate Graves Survey Archive of the Texas Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans consists of surveys of cemeteries throughout Texas, and portions of Oklahoma and New Mexico. The surveys document the interment of Confederate States of America military veterans. United States of America (Union) veterans, as well as able-bodied men at the time of the Civil War, are also documented. 13 boxes entitled "Grave Surveys" contain grave surveys listed county-by-county, 3 boxes of "Unit Files" list surveyed individuals by their military unit. Finally, 17 boxes contain "Veteran Files" that document each veteran by name in "last name, first name, middle initial" format. An index that cross-references each of the collection series (Grave Surveys, Unit Files, and Veteran Files) is included, as are institutions to surveyors on how and what to document while conducting surveys. ; Born: 1840-10-21, Died: 1916-05-17, Age 21 | Sweat Box Cemetery # 770, Hunt County, TX. ; Vol. 4, Page 49. ; Service Record: Pvt. Co. A 9 Tx Inf.

A two-page letter from Frank N. Seerley to Samuel S. Trumpour, dated July 9th, 1917. In this letter, Seerley gives Trumpour updates on many of the soldiers on the front line with some dying; however, he notes a large percent of men are still alive and well. He also tells him about new developments with the college, including a future reduction in the number of men attending next year and conducting a summer school for army work secretaries. Lastly, Seerley tells Trumpour how much he appreciates the latter's letter as it was the first one received from a prisoner of war and hopes that his health improves. ; Frank N. Seerley graduated from the International Young Men's Christian Association College in 1890 and began working at the college as an instructor in the same year. He served as a member of the Springfield Board of Education from 1896 to 1912. In 1907, he served as an official lecturer for the American Society of Sanitary and Moral Prophylaxis. From 1917 to 1918, he gave lectures on sex hygiene in encampments for the War Work Council. After World War 1, he served as Dean of Springfield College from 1918 to 1934. Seerley was awarded the Tarbell Medallion in 1942. Lance Corporal Samuel Solmes. Trumpour attended Springfield College from 1912 to 1913. He served with the the 5th. Royal Highlanders from October 14, 1914 until he left to serve with the 1st British Columbia Regiment on February 9, 1915. He was taken as a prisoner of war at the Second Battle of Ypres on April 24, 1915. He was discharged on January 22, 1918 for being medically unfit for further military service.