This collection consists of a scrapbook, likely compiled in Virginia, memorializing the American Civil War. The scrapbook is composed largely of clippings from unidentified newspapers, nearly all from the post-war years, and most from the 1870s and 1880s. Items in the scrapbook chronicle the war's battles and its personalities, with a signficant portion devoted to the death and memorialization of Robert E. Lee. Several clippings contain war-related poetry. The scrapbook also includes a handwritten sheet entitled "A War-Time Menu which greeted Turner Ashby's camp at Winchester, Va.;" images of several Confederate memorials, clipped from an unidentified source; and an advertisement for a 1916 showing of D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation.