Names mentioned in the typescript include William A. Hammond, Nathaniel Lyon, and James Simons.

Chiefly official correspondence relating to the transfer of supplies and personnel during the Mexican War.

Contains correspondence, documents, certificates, and printed matter. Correspondence consists chiefly of congratulatory letters on becoming Surgeon General, acknowledgments for reprints, and letters from senators and congressmen pertaining to promotion to grade of major general. Printed matter consists of book reviews and information relating to inventions of Sternberg.

Personal letters chiefly from Army medical officers. Correspondents include J.H. Baxter, John S. Billings, James Carroll, C.H. Crane, J.M. Cuyler, John Eagen, Robert Fletcher, Charles R. Greenleaf, Charles L. Heizmann, Bernard J. D. Irwin, George A. Otis, J. Simpson, George M. Sternberg, and J.J. Woodward.

Contains personal letters chiefly from Army medical officers.

Telegraph transcripts of military orders and directives sent and received by Letterman during his Civil War service. The diaries describe a trip from Fort Leavenworth to Fort Union, N.M. and back. Evidence indicates that the diary was not kept by Letterman.

The collection combines Latimer's official documents and correspondence relating to certain Union and Confederate surgeons during the Civil War (1861-65), the immediate post-war period (1866), and the Spanish-American War (1898).

Sketches requested of U.S. naval medical officers by the Surgeon General of the Army in 1933.

Includes U.S. Army studies on rations (1898-1920); the Army War College course: The preparation and publication of an official medico-military history of a war of magnitude (1929); Surgeon-General's Office activities (1918); Annual report of the U.S. Army General Hospital, San Francisco (1906); construction of barracks in England (1868); and military garments and helmets in the tropics.

Autobiographical and biographical information on the lives of 162 U.S. Army Medical Officers who served c.1870-1940.