Letters concerning Ekin's service in the Quartermaster Corps during the Civil War; scattered items relating to a bill before the United States Senate in 1882 requiring Army officers to retire at age sixty-two; and telegrams concerning the shooting of President Garfield. Also contains pamphlets, including a list of officers and students at Harvard in 1870. Correspondents include: H. T. Crosby, Henry G. Davis, Benjamin Harrison, Robert Todd Lincoln, William B. Rochester, Caleb B. Tillinghast, and Charles Thomas.
