This collection contains twenty-six cartes de visite of Confederate generals and politicians. Generals include Robert E. Lee, Joseph E. Johnston, Stonewall Jackson, and Nathan Bedford Forrest among others. Politicians include images of President Jefferson Davis and Vice President Alexander Stephens as a young man. There is also an image of Emperor Napoleon III of France.

This collection contains a letter to D. W. Speers from James Longstreet about an invitation to meet General E. K. Smith at the Speers home but he is unable to attend due to feeble health. Another letter is about the payment of a sum of money to the Herring Safe Company to build a vault.