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Notes Abbreviations BWAC-TU Battalion Washington Artillery Collection, Tulane University CSR-VA Compiled Service Records (Virginia), National Archives CSR-LA Compiled Services Records (Louisiana), National Archives FC Ned Fanfani Collection HC Archer Ellis Hansen Collection JBW James B. Walton JBW-TU James B. Walton Papers, Tulane University JJC Josephine Jeffries Chapman JSM John S. Mosby JSM-DU John Singleton Mosby Papers, Duke University JSMSB-UVA John S. Mosby Scrapbooks, University of Virginia NA-CP National Archives at College Park, Md. OR U.S. War Department, The War of the Rebellion RC Carolyn and Chris Russell Collection SFC Samuel Forrer Chapman UVA Special Collections, University of Virginia Library VHS Virginia Historical Society WAP-TU Washington Artillery Papers, Tulane University WHC William Henry Chapman WHCLA Capt. W. H. Chapman’s Company, Light Artillery, Compiled Service Records (Virginia), National Archives WHCLB William H. Chapman ledger book, Russell Collection 1. A Man’s Courage 1. Ramage, Gray Ghost, 344–47. Wert, Mosby’s Rangers, 74, claimed a cumulative total of 1,902 men served with Mosby. Keen and Mewborn, 43rd Battalion, 287, stated at least 1,881 men enlisted. Ramage, Gray Ghost, 344, reported 1,570 enlistees. 2. Scott, Partisan Life; Crawford, Mosby and His Men; Monteiro, War Reminiscences; Williamson, Mosby’s Rangers; Munson, Reminiscences; J. H. Alexander, Mosby’s Men; Williamson, Mosby’s Rangers, 2d ed. 3. Krick, Lee’s Colonels, 78; Keen and Mewborn, 43rd Battalion, 305–6; Moore, Danville, 100; Sifakis, Who Was Who, 116; Evans and Bridgers, Confederate Military History, 4:801; Spratt, Page County, 49. 4. CSR-VA, Mosby’s Regiment; Monteiro, War Reminiscences, 155, 177, 188, 191, 194; unidentified newspaper clipping, JSMSB-UVA, 1:50–53; Munson, Reminiscences, 59. 5. OR, 46(3): 897. 6. Krick, Lee’s Colonels, xi-xix, from a biographical study of 1,954 men who attained the rank of major, lieutenant colonel, or colonel. 7. Mosby, Mosby’s War Reminiscences, 211.  8. Wert, Mosby’s Rangers, 292; Ramage, Gray Ghost, 344; Keen and Mewborn, 43rd Battalion, 305, 320, 350, 351, 370, 377. 9. McPherson, For Cause and Comrades; McPherson, What They Fought For. 10. JSM to SFC, 30 September 1909, JSM-DU; Coski, Confederate Battle Flag. 2. Liberty and Union 1. Bruen, Christian Forrer, 1–45, 47, 72, 87, 171; Brown, Mosby’s Fighting Parson, 24–25. 2. Strickler, Short History, 2–5, 48–49, 58–59. 3. Bruen, Christian Forrer, 87–90, 96–100, 166; Strickler, Short History, 97, 114; Kerkhoff, Old Homes, 77, 106–7; Brown, Mosby’s Fighting Parson, 25. 4. Bruen, Christian Forrer, 96, 166, 171, 193; Strickler, Short History, 308; Kerkhoff, Old Homes, 107; Brown, Mosby’s Fighting Parson, 25–26. 5. Strickler, Short History, 1, 4, 120, 207–8. 6. Kerkhoff, Old Homes, 105, 108; Bruen, Christian Forrer, 168; Brown, Mosby’s Fighting Parson, 23. 7. Strickler, Short History, 98–99, 225–27, 327; Bruen, Christian Forrer, 174, 179, 180, 182; Kerkhoff, Old Homes, 169–70; Brown, Mosby’s Fighting Parson, 29–30, 47–48; Eighth U.S. Census (1860), Population Schedules, Page County, Va., 732. The Mossy Creek Ironworks is marked on a Library of Congress map of the Shenandoah Valley prepared by Jedediah Hotchkiss in 1862. See map H89, Stephenson, Civil War Maps, 313. 8. Edmonds, John Chapman, 3, 5, 12; Brown, Mosby’s Fighting Parson, 26. 9. Edmonds, John Chapman, 5, 12, 13; Dove, Madison County Homes, 298–99; Yowell, History of Madison County, 56, 160; Brown, Mosby’s Fighting Parson, 26. 10. Bruen, Christian Forrer, 193; Blackwell, Blackwell Genealogy, 52; Dove, Madison County Homes, 228, 298; Third U.S. Census (1810), Population Schedules, Madison County, Va., 682; Fourth U.S. Census (1820), Population Schedules, Madison County, Va., 105; Fifth U.S. Census (1830), Population Schedules, Madison County, Va., 5. Catherine Gaines was the daughter of Edmund Pendleton Gaines and Tabitha Rucker. Her father was not the Gen. Edmund Pendleton Gaines claimed by Edmonds, John Chapman, 14. See Armstrong, Notable Southern Families, 1:78, for the correct lineage, confirmed also in A. W. Gaines to WHC, 8 December 1896, WHCLB-RC, 254–55. In exception, Dove, Madison County Homes, 298, says William Allen Chapman married Hattie Gains on 29 April 1799. This name and date are shown in the handwritten Madison County Marriage Register, 249, microfilm copy, Library of Virginia. 11. Bruen, Christian Forrer, 171, 193, 196, 197, 208; Edmonds, John Chapman, 14; Vogt and Kethley, Page County Marriage Bonds, 14; Sixth U.S. Census (1840), Population Schedules, Madison County...

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