Faces of the Confederacy: An Album of Southern Soldiers and Their Stories

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235 Notes Biographical information on enlisted men and officers was obtained from the National Archives and Record Service, Washington, D.C., and from Boatner’s The Civil War Dictionary (New York: David McKay Company, 1962) unless otherwise noted. Abbreviations CV: Confederate Veteran Magazine, 40 vols. Nashville, Tenn., 1893–1932. NARS: National Archives and Record Service. Washington, D.C. OR: U.S. Government. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, 128 vols. Washington, D.C., 1880–1901. The Official Records, established by federal law in 1864, contain reports written and filed by commanders within days, weeks, or sometimes months of the events. The volumes are arranged in four series : Volumes I–III make up Series 1 and consist of official battle reports for the Union and Confederate armies. The remaining three series contain correspondence relating to prisoners of war, conscription, blockade running , and other communications. Most citations of this source include four numbers—series, volume, part, and page—and name the author of the cited report. SHSP: Southern Historical Society Papers, 52 vols. Richmond, Va., 1876– 1959. 1. The writings of British historians Thomas Macaulay and Thomas Carlyle inspired this statement. Carlyle’s comment, “History is the essence of innumerable biographies,” from his essay “On History,” is especially significant . 2. Numbers are based upon an analysis of figures included in population returns from the 1860 Census and Fox’s Regimental Losses. 3. Griffith, Yours Till Death, pp. vi–viii. 4. In an e-mail dated August 18, 2005, Milne responded to a request to verify these numbers by stating, “I would say that is about right,” and added: “It is not an accurate count but a good generalization.” 5. E-mail to the author, January 16, 2007. 6. Riggs, 21st Virginia Infantry, p. 2. 7. Steiner, Men of Mark in Maryland, pp. 188–191. 8. Hartzler, Marylanders in the Confederacy, p. 29. 236 9. Richard C. Hoffman military service record, NARS. 10. Brugger, Presidents of the Maryland Club; Steiner, Men of Mark in Maryland, pp. 188–191; Marquis Publications, Who Was Who in America, vol. 1, p. 575. 11. Henderson, 12th Virginia Infantry, p. 3. 12. McEnery’s paternal grandfather, Mathew McEnery, lived in Baltimore , Maryland. This family connection may explain the photographers listed on the back of his carte de visite. 13. Henderson, 12th Virginia Infantry, pp. 1, 141. 14. Congratulatory orders from Brig. Gen. Henry A. Wise, Confederate States Army. OR, I, XXXVI, 2: 316. 15. The regimental history confuses his death date with that of his father (June 19, 1881). Other records incorrectly list his death date as June 19, 1861. 16. Carroll, Custer in the Civil War, pp. 68–69, 89–90. 17. Ibid., pp. 89–90. 18. Ibid. 19. Wert, Custer, p. 28. 20. Schaff, Spirit of Old West Point, p. 159. 21. Sickles, “Custer’s Roommate at West Point.” 22. Ed Bearss, Chief Historian Emeritus, National Park Service, to the author, Feb. 6, 2007; Roberts and Moneyhon, Portraits of Conflict, p. 105; James P. Parker military service record, NARS. 23. 1900 U.S. Census; Mark Nero, curator of the Percha Bank Museum, Kingston, New Mexico. 24. The Albany (Georgia) Patriot, May 23, Nov. 7, 1861. 25. Thomas, History of the Doles-Cook Brigade, p. 86. 26. Ibid. 27. Daughters of the American Revolution, History and Reminiscences of Dougherty County Georgia, pp. 176–177. 28. Hunsicker, “Rayburn the Raider.” 29. R. D. Keever to Lawrence T. Jones, Feb. 20, 1980. Doc’s image was published in the 1981 Confederate Calendar. Lawrence T. Jones, Confederate Calendar Works. 30. An April 1862 application for an arrest warrant in Texas was issued for Rayburn and others riding with him. The charge was assault with the intent to kill civilians. There is no record that the arrest was made. AdkinsRochette , Bourland in North Texas and Indian Territory, p. A-213; Baker, “Yellow Doc, The Ranger: An Arkansas Legend.” 31. Hunsicker, “Rayburn the Raider.” 32. Ibid.; 1850, 1860 U.S. Census. 33. The Twelfth was also known as Parsons’s Regiment Mounted Volunteers (named for its commander, Col. William Henry Parsons), the Fourth Texas Dragoons, and the Fourth Texas Volunteers. Howell A. Rayburn 237 military service record, NARS; Milton V. Rayburn military service record, NARS. 34. Baker, “The Story and Legend of Doc Rayburn.” 35. Report of Maj. James M. Pomeroy, commanding detachment of the Ninth Kansas Cavalry. OR...