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This oral history collection spans the World War II era through recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. One interview (Frank Buckles) covers World War I service. The majority of the interviews were conducted by VMI cadets taking courses in military history. The interview files and recordings are housed in the VMI Archives.

This collection includes original letters and typescript copies of letters Ted Barclay sent to his family in Lexington, Virginia during the American Civil War. Subjects include information about the activities of the Liberty Hall Volunteers of the Stonewall Brigade in major battles within Virginia; accounts of life in Confederate camp; information about food, clothing, diseases, religious services, attractive women, and deaths of friends while serving with the Volunteers; and accounts of his life as a Union prisoner at Fort Delaware. These letters have been published in a volume edited by Charles Turner, Ted Barclay, Liberty Hall Volunteers: Letters from the Stonewall Brigade (1861-1864).

This collection is an American Civil War memoir, c.1870?, of August Forsberg, which includes accounts of Confederate fortifications, marches and battles, and his life in a Union prisoner of war camp in Fort Delaware.

This collection contains autobiographical and biographical information about the military service of alumni veterans of World War II through the first Gulf War. The alumni responses range in length from short summaries to longer narrative descriptions detailing their service. Some files contain related photographs and documents.

This collection contains photocopies of a diary by Givens Brown Strickler written while he was a prisoner of war at Johnson's Island during the American Civil War and four photographs of the diary.

The bulk of the collection consists of letters written by James A. Harden to his sister, covering wartime events experienced by his unit as well as his time at Ft. Delaware, Delaware. The collection also includes one letter (dated June 6, 1861) written while Harden was at VMI and other items.

This collection consists of items created by and related to Reid S. Aaron (VMI Class of 1940), including:

• Personal and military service information
• Correspondence from Aaron to his family (1941-1945) and from the United States War Department
• Newspaper clippings about Reid and clippings written by Hayne W. Dominick, Jr. (1920-1995) that detail is experiences as a prisoner of war during World War II
• A field artillery manual (1936)
• A blank Personal Report of Reserve Office Form (1931)
• Two currency items
• One book titled "March of Death!" (The Honoribus Press, 2006)

This collection consists of the Civil War papers (approximately 80 items) of Captain Richard H. Adams, Jr, including:

• A manuscript diary kept while serving with the 5th Alabama Regiment in Virginia (April-June 1862), with an accompanying typewritten transcription
• Transcriptions of two additional diary volumes (September 1862-March 1863; and prison diary, 1864-1865)
• Forty seven letters (November 1863-September 1866) to Lottie Putnam Adams, most written before their marriage while Adams was a prisoner of war
• Twenty three letters from Lottie to Richard (March 1864-January 1865)
• A typescript titled "Account of Wheeler's Raids," which was written after the Civil War
• "Friendship book" (March 1865) that contains inscriptions by fellow prisoners
• Two photographs of Adams
• Documents and clippings

This collection consists of:

• Original propaganda leaflets directed at the Japanese troops and civilians (1945)
• Personal correspondence written to John K. Davis' parents that largely concerns family matters (1945-1946)
• Formal photographs of Davis from his cadetship, United States Army career, and civilian career
• Amateur snapshots of Manila, Philippines and surrounding area (circa 1945)
• Maps of Japanese cities issued to officers (1945)
• A "Guide to Japan" (September 1945)
• Other printed material