The Samuel Miller papers were received by the Marine Corps Museum in 1967 and are particularly useful in documenting the Marine Corps participation in the Florida Indian Wars in 1836 -37. The collection is largely composed of Miller's official correspondence during the 1836-37 Indian campaigns but it also includes an interesting, if somewhat miscellaneous, selection of personal and official material from such documents as an apparently unique Muster Roll of the Marine detachment at the Battle of Bladensburg 1814, to the correspondence relating to his participation in an abortive duel.

In 1967 the Marine Corps Museum began a program designed to acquired and preserve the personal papers of former Marines for future students of history. The Levi Twiggs Papers (P.C. 123) offer the student of the Mexican War an interesting and informed view of that conflict.

In 1967 the Marine Corps Museum implemented a program designed to acquire and preserve the personal papers of former Marines for future students of history. The George C. Reid papers were received by the Marine Corps Museum in 1961 and provide representative insight into the career of a Marine Officer during the "golden years" of the Corps.

In 1967 the Marine Corps Museum implemented a program designed to acquire and preserve the personal papers of former Marines for future students of history. The John L. Broome papers were acquired by the Marine Corps Museum in 1960 and are of considerable utility in documenting the duties of shipboard Marine detachments during the period of the American Civil War. Broome's career spanned the period from the Mexican War, 1848, through 1888 and he saw duty in the Mexican War, the American Civil War and in the New York Whiskey riots of 1868.