Brief note to Edwin M. Stanton, then Secretary of War, with Stanton's response below; commission promoting W. S. Hillyer to the rank of colonal and appointing him "Additional Aid de Camp."

Undated manuscript, "War Stories for Children: the Merrimac and the Monitor," by the American soldier, diplomat, advisor to Ulysses S. Grant and author of Grant in Peace.

Papers of the Union soldier (1843-1872). Served as a clerk in the 123rd New York Volunteers during the Civil War, participated in Gettysburg and Atlanta Campaigns. Worked as a surveyor following war. Diaries (1862-1865); family correspondence (1862-1878); and memorabilia, including military certificates, Cook's company's muster-out roll, photographs, and newspapers.

Letters of the U.S. Navy Admiral.

Lieutenant General, United States Army, High Commissioner of the Ryukyu Islands, 1964-1966. Collection contains correspondence, 1964-66; news clippings, 1964-66; press releases, 1964-66; and photographs, 1964.

Letters and documents pertaining to Albert W. Simmons, resident of Auburn, NY, and his attempts (later his widow's attempts) to get a pension for his military service.

Union soldier during the Civil War. Letters addressed to "Amanda" from "M" (1847-1848), and from Maseker to his wife Margaret while he was a soldier in the 1st Long Island Regiment (1861-1862).

Letters from the French military leader and legislator to three generations of the Billacoys family.

Photos and print materials concerning the 1946 atomic weapons tests for Operation Crossroads at Bikini Atoll.

Journals kept aboard the U.S.S. Delaware and the U.S.S. Dolphin during tours of the Mediterranean, West Africa, and South America, including drawings and watercolors.

Photocopy of a typescript, War Reminiscences: A Letter to My Nieces Emma K. Devlin, Belle K. Page, and Leigh K. Williams, a personal narrative by Batavia-born Angela K. Davis describing experiences living in a border slave state during the Civil War; details events before and after the Battle of Antietam.

Diary of a Civil War soldier in the Union army.

American seaman, pilot, ship's captain. Journals combining ship's logs and personal diaries concerning Pease's career as a merchant seaman and tenure as Commander of United States Transports on Lake Ontario during the War of 1812.

Papers of the Union Army soldier from Marcellus, New York. Civil War diaries, 1862-1865; personal ledger, 1869-1870; and a photograph.

Civil War letters from cousin E. F. Hill; also letters, documents, and forms of the Masons and Knights Templar, 1875-1892.

Vice Admiral in the United States Navy; held a succession of commands in the U.S. Navy, left retirement in 1964 to assume the chairmanship of the Inter-American Defense Board in Washington, D.C. Collection contains speeches given as President of the Naval War College and as Chairman of the Inter-American Defense Board (1962-ca. 1966); photographs of Austin (1937-1961); biographical material; and memorabilia.

Photographs of an unknown black serviceman during the Vietnam War.

American army general. Collection contains printed material.

Autobiographical manuscript based on the diaries of the United States Army colonel.

Papers of the Civil War soldier. Letters from C. D. Pattie (or Pattee) to his wife, Lydia, describing life in camps and his disillusionment with the army; also correspondence between other individuals possibly, but not definitely, related to Pattie.

Small collection of documents relating to Charles Baldwin of Onondaga County. Most pertain to his military service.

Letters of the U.S. naval officer and lawyer, all incoming, relating to naval veterans' affairs and organizations.

Papers of the Syracuse University librarian related to the Vietnam era.

Christopher Yates was Quartermaster-General during the American Revolution. Collection includes correspondence, 1728-1848; financial records, 1732-1841; legal records, 1677-1898; military records, 1777-81; and miscellany. Correspondents include John De Lancey, Elizabeth De Lancey Yates, Joseph Yates, and Judge Robert Morris of New Jersey. Financial records of John Butler, Peter Van Benthuysen, and Christopher Yates family are included. Also includes a journal by Captain Thomas Butler, 1756.

Two tintypes of individuals in Civil War uniforms, who may be women

Letters addressed to the government from Troy, Watertown, and Rushford, New York as well as from Vermont and Massachusetts, concerning pension claims.

Papers of the military officer and lawyer. Collection contains legal material (includes papers concerning Interstate Commerce Commission, 1931; various cases involving commerce and transportation including railroads, 1929-39), military files (photographs and papers), and public service material (topics include education and Nassau County Bridge Authority).

Correspondence and memorabilia to, from, and about soldiers (Civil War through Korea)

Correspondence of an officer in the United States Navy with his wife, sister, and brother (who appears to have managed some of Conner's property).

Papers of the American naval officer. Correspondence (1806-1890), 35 outgoing letters, and a number of third party letters which illuninate Porter's promotion of the use of the Fowler Wheel as a propulsion system on torpedo boats. Also, an engraved portrait of Porter, and one of his father, David Porter (1780-1843).

Letters of the United States admiral; also three photographs.

Correspondence relating to Teddy Roosevelt's "Rough Riders." Hughes served in the regiment.

Audiotapes, correspondence, printed material, other items from the American admiral.

Foreign correspondent and author. Collection contains manuscripts of four of Middleton's books including his first, Struggle for Germany, published in 1949.

One letter from the American adventurer, author and foreign correspondent, replying to a query as to the truthfulness of his recent book (possibly Fighting in Flanders, published in 1914).

American physician, World War I army and Syracuse, New York. Collection includes correspondence, photographs, scrapbooks, other material relating to his experiences establishing hospitals in France during World War I.

Military historian. Seven diaries, a published history of Fort Leavenworth, a few manuscripts.

Papers of the American army officer, architect, author, founding member of the American Legion. Correspondence, diaries, speeches, training manuals, published materials by and about Wood, military records, reports, maps, and photographs pertaining mostly to Wood's military service. Also, correspondence and research material relating to Leonard Wood.

Dispatches from the Pacific Theatre of World War II, by Syracuse-area journalist and war correspondent E. R. "Curly" Vadeboncoeur.

Papers of the English nurse during the Boer War and Russo-Japanese War. Collection includes correspondence (1901-1937); manuscripts and other material relating to her 1904 trip to Japan and Manchuria; memorabilia.

Papers of a Syracuse University MBA graduate and Vietnam War veteran, and his parents; includes correspondence and audio cassette recordings.

Papers of the Union Army officer (ca. 1828-1883). Kozlay was a colonel in the 54th New York Volunteers. Scrapbook of incoming letters, documents, military telegrams, and orders, relating to Kozlay's military service. Letters from Hiram Barney, F.W. Seward, R.A. Witthaus, and others.

Correspondence, manuscripts of the American military, naval, and science fiction novelist.

Letters, essays, poetry, diary, and commission of a delegate in the U.S. Christian Commission during the Civil War. Diary describes duties as an aide in Union Army camps, letters describe army life.

Biddle (1886-1968) was U.S. Attorney General under Franklin D. Roosevelt, and a member of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. Personal papers including correspondence, a journal and notes for Biddle's autobiography, a photograph album and 5 scrapbooks. Bulk of collection consists of trial documents: notes and minutes, indictments, 11 volumes of evidence notes, defense documents, about 50 volumes of trial proceedings, memoranda, appeals, and material on Katyn Forest Massacre. Also includes published material on aspects of international law as related to the trial.

Papers of the U.S. naval officer. Official letters and orders tracing Hyde's assignments aboard the U.S.S. Kansas and U.S.S. Hartford from naval academy on.

Papers of the Union soldier. Officer in Company B, 65th New York Volunteers. Documents of Company B, 65th New York Volunteers (1864-1865), including invoices, muster rolls, ordnance stores inventories and records of clothing allowances, and receipts; diary (1864-1865); and other personal papers (1861-1867).

Papers of the Admiral in the U.S. Navy. Collection consists of thirty-two outgoing letters (1902-1907) to John W. Crawford, as well as incoming letters from William E. Chandler, John Schuyler Crosby, Loyall Farragut, Marcus A. Hanna, and Hilary A. Herbert.

Papers of the U.S. Army officer. Drafts of an autobiographical account of McCaffrey's military governorship training and tour of duty in Italy during the Allied occupation; and other military documents.

The career of Admiral George John Dufek (1903-1977) in the U.S. Navy included work with the U.S. Antarctic Service (1939-1941), Arctic Task Force 68 (1946), Antarctic Operation Highjump (1946-1947) and Arctic Task Force 80 (1948). After 1955 Dufek commanded Operation Deep Freeze, which provided support for US IGY research programs, and in 1956 he became also U.S. Antarctic Projects Officer. After retiring in 1959 he became Director of the Mariners' Museum in Virginia. Cf. Peter J. Beck, Polar Record, v. 23, no. 145 (1987). The collection includes clippings, photographs, official reports, draft speeches, personal and official correspondence, articles, and scrapbooks. Files relating to Operation Deep Freeze include chronologies, record books, reports, photographs and scrapbooks. There is also some material relating to Dufek's other Arctic and Antarctic expeditions, however these operations are less fully documented.

Memorabilia from Brooks' months as an American soldier and student at the University of Poitiers. Brooks was one of 249 American soldiers -- both officers and enlisted men -- who briefly attended the University of Poitiers (halfway between Paris and Bordeaux) as full-time students in 1919 after having fought on the Western Front. All but one item date from 1918-1920.

Papers of the Union soldier (circa 1834-1911) and British immigrant who served as a recruitment officer for the Independent Battalion, New York Volunteers, and was subsequently stationed at Point Lookout, MD, Yorktown and Eastville, VA, and Morris Island, SC. Collection includes correspondence (1862-1911); personal and company military documents, including commissions, discharge papers, lists of contraband, muster rolls, general and special orders, accounts of courts-martial, recruitment records, receipts, requisitions, and rosters; legal and financial records, including pension statements, tax receipts, and wills.

American naval officer and painter. Collection contains correspondence, subject files and printed material, including clippings.

American politician and Secretary of the Navy. Collection consists of a single incoming letter.

Papers of the Civil War soldier. Diary kept while Rhodes was a member of Company H, New York Volunteers, 50th Engineers Regiment.

Correspondence of the American author and military historian, related to his unpublished biography of Major General John Shirley Wood.

American sociologist, biographer, political advisor to the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers (SCAP). Collection consists entirely of reports on post-World War II Japan.

Correspondence and memorabilia relating to Harvey Graham, an American Civil War general in the Union Army.

Memorabilia, printed material, and writings by and about American General John J. Pershing.

Civil War solidier. Collecton includes a diary, photographs, news clippings and other material.

World War II correspondence between Helen Stringer and her husband Sydney, a Captain in the U.S. Army Medical Corps, stationed in North Africa, Italy, France, and Germany.

Union soldier, served with the 121st New York Volunteers. Letters to family and friends in Cooperstown, New York, detailing camp life during the Civil War.

Diary kept by the U.S. Naval officer during his voyages to the West Indies, French Polynesia and the Virgin Islands, recording the social scene, observations of the natives and geographical details. Included are photographs and a list of 66 books read during 1876.

Letterbook of an American naval officer.

Collection of 40 outgoing letters to his brother, Judson Howe of McDonough, New York and one enclosure from an aunt, Lucy Knight. Also included is a biography of Hervey Lane Howe, a regimental history of the 89th Regiment, New York Volunteers, a chronology and brief synopsis of the letters, and transcriptions of the letters prepared by George W. Howe of Williamsport, Pennsylvania.

Presentation scrapbook of historic radiograms from International News Service correspondent Pierre Huss, presented to Harry King for purchase of war bonds.

Letters from Navy sailor Horatio Robinson to his mother, while posted to the USS Powhatan, flagship of the South Pacific Squadron, dated from locations in Chile and Peru.

Papers of the U.S. Air Force officer. Collection includes correspondence (1938-1959); flight records (1937-1951); photographs; pilot's books; scrapbooks (1919-1959), and clippings.

A letter describing the writer's travels through New York and Pennsylvania shortly after the start of the War of 1812.

World War II scrapbook.

Papers of the American naval officer. Personal correspondence (1959-1964); memoranda and reports; articles and clippings; photographs; and other memorabilia.

American Civil War general. Collection contains correspondence and memorabilia.

Papers of the Union soldier. Bogert was an officer in the 127th New York Volunteer Infantry, and a lieutenant colonel in the 103rd Colored Infantry. Letters, mostly to his parents in New York City concerning family matters, camp life, the progress of Civil War.

Papers of the U.S. naval officer, established ordnance system. Collection includes correspondence (1836-1905); 13 diaries (1834-1870); notebooks, memoranda, articles, and other papers relating to Dahlgren's naval career, including his pioneer work in naval ordnance, and the development of the Dahlgren gun. Includes a diary of his wife, Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren, and a Civil War journal of an unidentified person. Correspondence includes that of Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren, Percival Drayton, Andrew H. Foote, R.B. Forbes, R.P. Parrott, Henry Augustus Wise, and others.

Papers of the Army officer; U.S. Senator (1845-1849); U.S. Secretary of the Treasury. During the Civil War, President Lincoln commissioned Dix a major-general, and ordered him to take charge of the Alexandria and Arlington Department, then reassigned him to the Department of Maryland. Dix later served as commander of the Department of the East. After the Civil War, Dix was named Minister to France (1866-1869), and following his return to the U.S., the life-long Democrat became the Republican Party nominee and the successful candidate for the Governorship of New York State (1873-1875). Includes more than 130 items of outgoing correspondence, more than half of which were written to Edwards Pierrepont between 1861 and 1877. Subjects include the Civil War, Reconstruction, New York State and national politics, and French politics and foreign relations preceding the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War.

Papers of the farmer and soldier, free soil advocate, son of abolitionist John Brown (1800-1859). 13 combination diary/account books (1856-1895), and 3 letters of his father to family members.

Correspondence and printed material related to Quint's service in World War II

Rear Admiral, United States Navy. Collection includes correspondence, photographs, clippings relating to Wainwright and to his father, Civil War Colonel John Wainwright, recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor for his bravery at the Battle of Fort Fisher (North Carolina).

Union soldier (1834?-1864), served with Vermont Volunteers. Collection includes correspondence with family in Vermont during Civil War service; some letters from brother, Julian, to family members; miscellaneous material including two diary pages, a list of debts, and a pencil drawing of encampment of Company E, 2nd Regiment, Vermont Volunteers.

Papers of the U.S. Army officer. The Isle of Pines was ceded by Spain to the U.S. Draft of letter and report on Isle of Pines, Cuba, discussing land disposition and political situation, addressed to George Bridges.

Print by Scottish caricaturist, John Kay

Letters from Congressman John McKeon, most to Secretary of the Navy Mahlon Dickerson

Papers of the U.S. Army officer. Collection consists of correspondence (1928-1967); articles and speeches on military subjects (1934-1967); photographs (1937-1965); and memorabilia (1917-1966), including address books. Notable correspondents include Creighton W. Abrams, Hanson Baldwin, Alan Bible, Howard W. Cannon, Bruce C. Clarke, James B. Conant, Bing Crosby, William O. Douglas, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Leopold Figl, J. William Fulbright, Lyndon B. Johnson, Robert F. Kennedy, Curtis E. LeMay, Basil Henry Liddell Hart, John L. McClellan, Frank Pace, George S. Patton, Francis T.P. Plimpton, Syngman Rhee, Eddie Rickenbacker, L. Mendel Rivers, Karl F. Rolvaag, Eleanor Roosevelt, DeWitt C. Smith, Robert A. Taft, Maxwell D. Taylor, James A. Van Fleet, William C. Westmoreland, Stephen M. Young, and others.

Papers of the U.S. naval officer. Journal of "J. S. Sewall, Vagabonde," serving on the U.S.S. Saratoga as Captain's Clerk during a Pacific cruise, 1850-1854. Also a list of officers and deaths, and clippings.

American painter. Collection contains artwork (original and photographs), correspondence, printed material and biographical material, including a diary from Vietnam in late 1968.

Letter from the American army officer to A.G. Moore, Esq. Accompanied by sales slip and letter documenting its purchase by Charles Devens Osborne in 1950.

Diary of a Civil War soldier in the Union army. Also includes one photograph of a young woman.

U.S. Army officer (U.S. Civil War, Spanish-American War) and legislator (U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio, 1877-1885, 1905-1911). Collection contains correspondence, primarily from 1881-1883, when Keifer was Speaker of the House of Representatives, and two items of miscellany. Incoming letters, mostly from military and political figures, of Susan B. Anthony, James G. Blaine, William Jennings Bryan, Carrie Chapman Catt, James A. Garfield, Marcus A. Hanna, Warren G. Harding, Rutherford B. Hayes, Nicholas Longworth, Whitelaw Reid, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John Sherman, William Tecumseh Sherman, William Howard Taft, Leonard Wood, and others.

Letter from Lt. Gen. Lancelot Baugh to an unidentified recipient, written from Dublin.

Papers of the American Methodist Episcopal, later Protestant Episcopal, minister and social activist; collection includes writings (book reviews, sermons, speeches, Army chaplain log books) and memorabilia, including numerous vey full scrapbooks with a wide variety of content

Correspondence of the Army officer, governor general of the Philippines. Outgoing letters, mostly written while Wood served in Cuba, and later in the Philippines.

General, United States Army Air Forces, World War I and II. Collection contains correspondence, clippings, printed material and photographs.

Italian singer and comedic actor. Collection primarily relates to his experiences as a young soldier when captured during the Battle of Adua, 1896.

American military historian, author. Collection contains correspondence, scrapbooks, notes, manuscripts, and published material. Correspondents include Bruce Catton, H.L. Mencken, and Francis E. Walter.

Papers of the physician, social reformer, native of Oswego, N.Y. Advocate of dress reform and women's suffrage. Collection includes correspondence (1833-1913), mainly from Dr. Walker's lecture tour of Britain in 1866-67 and from her Civil War service, 1862-65; legal and financial documents, including deeds, wills, and material concerning her divorce and employment at the Federal Pension Office; photographs; and writings, including material on the trial of Frank C. Almay in 1891, lectures, pamphlets, and reminiscences.

Orderly book of the Massachusetts Militia's Monson Artillery Company (4th Division, 1st Brigade, 5th Regiment). Volume also contains some school records from District No. 2, Stafford.

Chaplain in the Union Army. Letters from Camp Anderson in Washington and from Charlestown, Virginian.

Matthew Moody's commission as Surgeon's Mate of the 155th New York Infantry, signed by DeWitt Clinton

Material relating to life and career of Michael Stern, American investigative journalist, war correspondent and crime author.

Assorted documents relating to Matthias B. Miller, New York physician; Morris S. Miller of Utica, New York; and Rutger Bleecker of Albany, New York.