Military history

The papers in this Collection relate to Benjamin Clement's offer to help Simón Bolívar seek exile in Jamaica, to the dissolution of Gran Colombia in 1830, and to Bolívar's sword and cloak, which ended up in Clement's possession.

This collection contains a commission naming Jose Duran as Captain of the Escuadron on July 22, 1824. The commission is signed by Simón Bolívar.

The John B. Lomax Collection contains 54 photographs documenting the African-American soldiers of the 3067 Quartermaster Salvage Collecting Company in training in Wyoming during WWII, with almost all of the photographs annotated with humorous remarks and identifications of the images. There is also a photostatic copy of discharge papers.

This collection, 1966-1968, contains 27 letters sent to Joann Mosby from two men, Larry Powell and Andrew Johnson, serving overseas during the Vietnam War.

This collection contains 49 letters from DeWitt Smith to his sweetheart, Marion, while serving in the Air Force during the Korean War in 1952. There is also a gold-colored name place and a photograph of Smith in flight fatigues.

The Kemp Tolley and James Stahlman Collection, 1973-1986, consists of correspondence between author Kemp Tolley, 1908-2000, and newspaper publisher James Stahlman, 1893-1976.

This collection contains a muster roll of a company of black soldiers in the American Civil War. The company was present at General Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House.

Correspondence, photographs, and photo postcards from Wilbur E. Kennedy during World War I and his son, Wilbur W. Kennedy, Jr., during World War II. Almost all of the correspondence is addressed to Sophia Williams Kennedy, the wife of Wilbur E. and the mother of Wilbur W.