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The bulk of this collection consists of items dating from T. Randolph Perkinson's World War I service with Headquarters, 30th Division, as an aide-de-camp to General S. L. Faison. Documents include:

• Letters of recommendation
• A special order
• A battlefield map
• A leave of absence document
• 30th Division and 119th Infantry histories

Artificial collections of papers, mainly 1830-1880 and 1941-1946, concerning the United States military but excluding Civil War materials. Collection includes return, 1782, of J. Pannill's Brigade, Williamsburg, Va.; printed regulations, 1814, for the uniform of U.S. Light Dragoons; pay voucher, 1833, for Philip St. George Cocke; papers, 1836-1848, concerning service of M.M. Payne; general order no. 94, and pencil sketch concerning the Mexican War; printed general orders for 1869, 1871, and 1877-1879; and posters concerning World War II.

Papers of "U.S.S. Attala" with W.S.G. Davis the Commanding Officer. Appear to be stationed in or near Pearl Harbor. Contains memos with commands, usually signed by N. M. Brown, Lieutenant of the United States Navy Reserve, newsletter entitled "The Attala X-Ray," and "Plan of the Day" for days in 1945-1946. Includes typed carbon copy of August 11, 1945 notice received from WVTK Armed Services Radio Station Leyte, Philippines about the terms of the Japanese surrender proposal.

This collection (4 item) consists of documents related to Walter H. Taylor, including:

• A letter (dated 24 October 24, 1864) from Taylor to "Lucien" (surname not known). In the letter Taylor declines his friend's invitation to his wedding, stating that his service as General Robert E. Lee's Adjutant General prevents him from taking any leave.
• A military order (dated August 23, 1864) that regards furloughs.
• A dispatch (February 28, 1865) from Briscoe Baldwin to Taylor that regards an officer's assignment.
• A contemporary copy of a letter (dated April 5, 1854) from Taylor's father to VMI Superintendent Francis H. Smith. This letter requests a cadetship for his son.

Notes and accounts, 1776-1780 and undated, concerning the service of Henry Waring, Thomas Waring and William Waring, brothers from Essex County, Virginia in the American Revolution. Includes payroll account for a detachment of the 7th Virginia Regiment; an inventory of the estate of Captain Henry Waring; enlistment record [during the American Revolution?] giving men's names, heights, and complexion; and commissions and allegiance oath of Henry Waring.

Civil War correspondence, passes and orders relating to 1st Lieutenant William H.E. Morecock of the 32nd Virginia Volunteer Regiment. Legal documents of William H. E. Morecock, mostly concerning the lawsuit in Williamsburg and James City County, McCandlish vs Warburton, during 1851 to 1853. Correspondence and financial records of the Board of Visitors of the College of William and Mary while William H.E. Morecock was Secretary of the Board, 1877-1890.

This collection consists of two documents from the Civil War career of Captain William H. Holman, of Holman's Company, Virginia Light Artillery, Confederate States of America (known as the Fluvanna Artillery, No. 1). This collection includes a commission document (dated June 28, 1861), appointing him as a Captain with the 2nd Artillery Regiment and signed by Governor John Letcher, and a military order (dated September 15, 1861) that requires Holman to report to Brigadier General Early.

Diaries, 1855, 1859-1861, 1864-1909, (52 volumes) of Col. William Lamb (1835-1909), written while a student at the College of William and Mary, newspaper editor, Civil War commander of Fort Fisher, N.C. (1862-1865), coal merchant, Norfolk businessman and mayor (1880-1886), and member of the Board of Visitors and Rector of William and Mary.

The William M. Whittle papers consist of the military papers of Whittle, VMI Class of 1917. Whittle served in World War I with the United States Army, 314th Machine Gun Battalion and was sent to France in May 1918. The papers include:

• A notebook containing war service chronology, notes concerning machine gun procedures, and names of officers in his unit
• Military orders
• Other documents and printed material
• One photo of Whittle in his Army uniform, circa 1918