Freemasons. Virginia. Grand Lodge. Free Masonry and the Wars. Report of the Committee under the Resolutions of 1862, Grand Lodge of Virginia, in reference to our relations as Masonic bodies and so Masons, in the North and South, growing out of the manner in which the present war has been prosecuted. Adopted by the Grand Lodge of Virginia, December 12, 1864, and ordered to be published. John Dove, Grand Secretary;, 1865

The collection consists of 16 boxes of books and papers, mostly from the 1860s, all of which were readily available to the public in the Confederacy at the time. The collection includes state and C.S.A. laws, ordinances, and regulations, military manuals, political dissertations, school books, novels, maps, tracts, and sermons. Also included are works related to the Confederacy such as histories of the war and autobiographies. Most are originals, any photocopies are noted as such in this listing.

The numbers associated with most items refers to numbers used in the published volumes of citations "Confederate Imprints: A checklist based principally on the collection of the Boston Athenaeum", by Marjorie Lyle Crandall, published in two volumes by the Boston Atheneaum, 1955 and in "More Confederate Imprints", by Richard Harwell, The Virginia State Library, 1957.