Student writings, diaries, bound transcriptions of diaries and letters, essays and speeches with topics from his first day under fire, the Battle of Shiloh and the Army of the Potomac, with many notes and fragments for historic articles and narratives. Also, a bound volume containing an inventory of Dawes’s book collection. The diaries consist of twenty-five pocket diaries Dawes kept from 1860-1891 and two bound volumes of copies of diaries and letters transcribed both by Dawes and his wife. Dawes’s writings include college material, and essay by Dawes entitled “My First Day Under Fire,” many miscellaneous notes and fragments for writing on historic and military topics, and a speech on the Army of the Potomac. There is also a bound volume titled “The War Library of Lieutenant-Colonel E.C. Dawes, 1885-1895”.