Scrapbook of newspaper articles pertaining chiefly to the secession movement, Civil War politics and battles, and other news events of the period. Also contains essays, speeches, poetry and songs, many on Civil War themes.

This collection contains both handwritten poetry and newspaper clippings of published poems by James Ryder Randall (1839-1908), author of "Maryland, My Maryland", circa 1858-1865, and undated.

This collection contains primarily letters from Lt. George Buchanan Redwood (1888-1918) to his mother Mary Buchanan Coale Redwood (1861-1940) as well as the sympathy letters she received after he was killed in action on May 28, 1918 during World War I. Also included in the collection is the correspondence of William E. Coale (1816-1865) and George Buchanan Coale (1819-1887) and a volume of poems entitled "Random Rhymes at Truant Times" belonging to John Greene Proud, Jr. (1813-1883).

William Matthew Marine, 1843-1904, was a Baltimore attorney, the collector of the Port of Baltimore during the 1890's, and an amateur writer. This collection contains 32 boxes comprised of his legal and political correspondence, notes, and clippings from 1808-1904.