Military History Collection

No collection is more appropriate to Texas A&M, a University with a strong military tradition and alumni who have fought in every war for the last century, than a military history collection. Cushing Memorial Library's Cooper K. Ragan Military History Collection seeks to complement the military beginning of this University. The collection is comprised of nearly 30,000 volumes spanning military history from the American Civil War through and including the Gulf War, but concentrating most heavily on the twentieth century (from the Spanish-American war through the Gulf War). It is strong in areas such as naval and aviation history.

The collections highlighted here display the chronological breadth of this collection: from the E. B. Long Civil War papers to the Michael Kelley Gulf War collection.

John A. Adams, Jr. NAFTA Collection

General Alvord Van Patten Anderson Papers: 1886-1976

John W. Anderson Diary: 1861-1866 (bulk: 1867)

The Michael Kelley Gulf War Collection

German WWI Documents: Apfelbaum, Charles Collection: 1883-1960

George Armstrong and Nell Steel Armstrong Papers: 1863-1920 (bulk: 1913-1920)

John Henry Bliler Diary: 1862-1865

Don Bosworth Correspondence: June-July, 1919

Brigadier General William Wallace Burns Papers: 1848-1910; (bulk: 1861-1889)

Thomas W. Davis, III Manuscript

Edward Everett Papers: 1846-1906 (bulk: 1846-1852)

Willmund Reaux Glaeser Diary: 9 Dec. 1919-25 Nov. 1920