Materials compiled by author Harry C. Blair regarding the life, family, and career of Colonel Edward C. Baker, including his friendship with Abraham Lincoln. The materials include notes, photographs, and correspondence.

John H. Gallagher was a soldier in the Spanish American War and a mining engineer in Portland, Oregon. Papers include correspondence, 1902-1909, regarding personal matters; receipts and documents, circa 1895-1900, regarding the Philippines and the Spanish American War, with some items in Spanish; and broadsides for events for U.S. troops in Hawaii, 1898.

Henry Fletcher Kendall was a graduate of West Point and an officer in the U.S. Army. Collection includes personal and family correspondence, 1887-1903, including letters from Puerto Rico during the Spanish-American war; military orders; medical lecture notes; and an incomplete manuscript history of the Mexican-American War, 1897.