Draper correspondence, 1863-1887, accompanied by many newspaper clippings, periodical articles, and extracts from books, most of which pertain to western military events in 1813: the Raisin River (Frenchtown) defeat (January), the two sieges of Fort Meigs (April-May and July), William Dudley's defeat (May), the siege of Fort Stephenson (August), the battle of the Thames (October), and the Creek War. The deaths of both Tecumseh and William Whitley in the Thames battle are discussed in a few pieces.

The papers also contain information on John Anderson, Blue Jacket, Thomas Coleman Graves, Jesse P. Green, Truman Guthrie, George Ironside, Sr. and his family, Hubert Lacroix and Paul Lacroix (1779-1868), Little Turtle, William Weatherford, and Jonathan Wright. A narrative about his service in the War of 1812 by Joseph R. Underwood (d. 1876) was composed much later (1871) than his article (1828) on Dudley's defeat filed in 1 WW, but included in the later account are the names and marriage dates for his two wives, Eliza M. Trotter (d. 1835) and Elizabeth Cox. One original letter by John O'Fallon to his uncle William Croghan in August, 1813, alludes to the second siege of Fort Meigs. A manuscript copy of a letter by Leslie Combs to Green Clay in 1815 describes the treatment of Combs and other prisoners taken by the British and Indians at Dudley's defeat.