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This collection consists of two letters written by Confederate Brigadier General Isaac R. Trimble. The first letter (dated July 24, 1862) and addressed to "Genl." (possibly to Stonewall Jackson), reports that he has occupied Manassas, captured guns and stores, and taken prisoners. The second letter (dated October 1870) declines an invitation to a fair.

This collection (six items) consists of the papers of Confederate General John D. Imboden, including:

• A letter (dated circa 1863) that concerns the subpoena of witnesses for the trial of a man accused of collaborating with the Union
• A letter (dated June 21, 1889) to Colonel Abram Fulkerson pertaining to donation of Lieutenant Colonel W. S. Lincoln's field glasses to VMI
• Post-Civil War documents that pertain to various personal and business matters

This collection consists of papers (8 items), primarily post-Civil War, of Confederate General Jubal A. Early.

This collection includes papers (four items) of Richard S. Ewell, including:

• A letter (dated June 17, 1838) written while Ewell was a cadet at West Point to Benjamin S. Ewell of York, Pennsylvania
• Two Civil War dispatches (dated 1862 and 1864)
• A map of the Cedar Mountain, Virignia battlefield drawn by Ewell

The Robert E. Lee and Lee Family papers consist of the personal papers of Robert E. Lee and Mary Custis Lee, including documents bearing their signatures. The papers also include one one letter (dated February 1926) from Mrs. William A. Anderson to Sydney B. Williamson that relates the history of a quilt made by Mary Custis Lee that was donated to the VMI Museum.

The Stonewall Jackson papers consist primarily of the personal papers of Civil War General Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson (1824-1863). The bulk of the letters date from the pre-Civil War period and concern professional, personal, and domestic matters, including many in which Jackson writes about his religious faith, his concerns about health and diet, and his family.