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NOTES abbreviations ACHNHP Appomattox Court House National Historical Park CSRCSV Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Virginia, M-324, RG 109, National Archives LOV Library of Virginia NA National Archives OR War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, 128 vols. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1880–1901 (All citations to OR are to series 1, unless otherwise noted.) RG Record Group SHC Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina USAMHI U.S. Army Military History Institute UVA University of Virginia, Alderman Library VHS Virginia Historical Society chapter one 1. John Raine tombstone, Raine cemetery, Route 24, Appomattox County; Lynchburg Republican, March 17, 1845. 2. Bradshaw, History of Prince Edward County, 308; Deed Book 23, 274–75, Prince Edward County Courthouse. 3. Lynchburg Virginian, March17,1845, and May 5,1851; Deed Book 23, 456, Prince Edward County Courthouse. 4. Richmond Enquirer, December 16, 1824; Legislative Petitions, Buckingham County, February 21 and March13,1839, LOV; Deed Book 23, 274–75, Prince Edward County Courthouse. 5. Legislative Petitions, Buckingham County, January 30, 1841, with polls of April 25, 1841, and April 28, 1842, LOV; Deed Book 23, 456, Prince Edward County Courthouse. 6. Richmond Whig, January 16 and 23, 1844. 7. Ibid., January17 and February 9,1844, February 5, 6, and 8,1845; Lynchburg Vir- ginian, September19,1844, and February13,1845; Legislative Petitions, Buckingham County, December 3, 1844, LOV; Stewart, American Place-Names, 19. 8. Lynchburg Virginian, March10,1845; Thomas W. Johns to ‘‘Dear Col.’’ [presumed to be Benjamin Walker], March 7,1845, photocopy tipped into Cauble, ‘‘Cultural History as of 1865,’’ ACHNHP; Acts of the General Assembly, 1845, 38–41. 9. Lynchburg Republican, March 17 and May 5, 1845. 10. Acts of the General Assembly,1845, 39; Journal of the Council of State of Virginia, 1845–46, 24, 31, 46, LOV; Lynchburg Virginian, June 5 and July 14, 1845. 11. Lynchburg Virginian, June 9, 1845. 12. Deed Book 26, 302, Prince Edward County Courthouse; Lynchburg Virginian, September 19, 1844, and May 1, 1845; Acts of the General Assembly, 1845, 46. McDearmon ’s benificent uncle was Samuel J. Daniel. 13. Seventh Census of the United States, M-432, reel 933, 354–55, 413–14, and Slave Schedule for Appomattox County, reel 983, RG 29, NA; McDearmon marriage records, Farrar Family Papers; Land Book, 1845, Appomattox County Circuit Court. According to the Appomattox County Land Books for the late 1840s, McDearmon owned a sawmill near his father’s plantation, and such a sawmill appears near Evergreen Station on the ‘‘Hotchkiss map’’ of Appomattox and Buckingham Counties (Atlas to Accompany the Official Records, plate135, map 5); the Industrial Schedule of the1850 census, T-1132, reel 4, RG 29, NA, also lists McDearmon and his brother-in-law as the owners of the largest grain mill in the county, at Bent Creek, with no capacity for milling timber. 14. Deed Book 26, 300, 302, Prince Edward County Courthouse; Land Books,1845, 1846, and 1851, Appomattox County Circuit Court. Samuel J. Walker, who was married to Mary F. P. McDearmon’s sister, served as security for the notes on the Clover Hill tract. 15. Lynchburg Virginian, September 8, 1845; George Peers recollections, undated newspaper clipping, ACHNHP. 16. Lynchburg Virginian, November 3 and 17, 1845, December 14, 1854; Lynchburg Republican, November 10, 1845. 17. Lynchburg Virginian, November 27 and December 1, 1845. 18. Ibid., December 1, 1845, and June 1, 1846. While most sources agree that Thomas S. Bocock was named Appomattox County’s commonwealth attorney on May 12, 1845, the Richmond Whig of May 22, 1845, reported that Daniel A. Wilson Jr. had been appointed to that same position by his father. Loss of Appomattox County records in the 1892 courthouse fire leaves resolution of that conflict difficult, but the younger Wilson may have been appointed as an assistant. No written evidence has turned up to document whether the county commissioners chose the log jail or one of the two masonry alternatives; the dimensions of the excavated jail foundation more closely match the advertised specifications for the log jail, rather then the brick or stone versions, but Timothy O’Sullivan’s 1865 photo of the courthouse reveals a glimpse of a brick structure where the original jail should have been (see Miller, Photographic History of the Civil War, 9:127). 19. Law Order Book, 1844–49, 278, 288, 290–98, Amherst County Circuit Court; Lynchburg Virginian, September 7, 1846. May...

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