Artillery officer, mortally wounded at Churubusca. Report cards and cadet letters to his family, 1837-1841, with typed transcripts; correspondence, 1841-1844 (4 original letters and 3 typed transcripts); a letter and a brief note, both undated; letters (and transcript) from J.F. Irons to unnamed Colonel, regarding commissary funds stolen by his clerk while Irons was acting as assistant commissary of subsistance at Fort Adams, Rhode Island; the bill passed by Congress regarding payment to Irons' mother, Mrs. Dorothea Irons, of the pay withheld from Irons because of the above incident (dated 13 Apr. 1874, w copies); undated letter of consolation from K. Duana Morgan to Mrs. Irons, postmarked Washington, PA., Oct. 22nd. (with typed transcript).
