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688. Guie,
Bugles in the Valley
, 145; Alexander,
Fighting for the Confederacy
, 49; Warner,
Generals in Gray
, 99;
Richmond Times-Dispatch
, October 13, 1985.

689.
Indianapolis News
, March 24, 1904, Stutler Collection, WVSA; Hannaford,
The Story of a Regiment
, 88–89; Sears,
George B. McClellan
, 421n.

690. Warner,
Generals in Blue
, 410–11; Reid,
Ohio in the War
, vol. 1, 348–49.

691.
O. R
. vol. 5, 669; Warner,
Generals in Blue
, 30; Boatner,
Civil War Dictionary
, 58–59.

692. Warner,
Generals in Gray
, 232; Griggs,
General John Pegram
, 92, 114.

693.
Lafayette Daily Journal
, April 5, 1862; Frame, “David B. Hart,” 73–75.

694. Maxwell,
History of Randolph County
, 309; Fansler,
History of Tucker County
, 154n.

695. Warner,
Generals in Blue
, 260–61; Maxwell,
History of Barbour County
, 250.

696. Carnes,
J.E. Hanger
, n. p.; Carnes,
Centennial History
, 26.

697. Grebner, “
We Were the Ninth,”
xiii; Reid,
Ohio in the War
, vol. 2, 72–75.

698. Boatner,
Civil War Dictionary
, 690; Starr,
Bohemian Brigade
, 356.

699. Warner,
Generals in Gray
, 152; Robertson,
Stonewall Jackson
, 753, 760.

700. Boatner,
Civil War Dictionary
, 411; Ecelbarger,
Frederick W. Lander
, 122, 274, 278;
Cincinnati Daily Commercial
, March 12, 1862.

701. Reader,
History of the Fifth West Virginia Cavalry
, 157–59; Boatner,
Civil War Dictionary
, 552; Keifer,
Slavery and Four Years
, vol. 1, 315–16; Warner,
Generals in Blue
, 326.

702. Robert H. Milroy Papers, 37, IHS; Obituary of Richard Green in Entrepreneurship Class,
A Dish of History
, n.p.

703. Elwood,
Elwood's Stories
, 275; Armstrong,
25
th
Virginia Infantry
, 176.

704. Warner,
Generals in Gray
, 194; Boatner,
Civil War Dictionary
, 492; Quintard,
Doctor Quintard
, 53–54.

705. Hannaford,
The Story of a Regiment
, 158–59; Warner,
Generals in Blue
, 398; Boatner,
Civil War Dictionary
, 694–95.

706. Warner,
Generals in Blue
, 267–68; Boatner,
Civil War Dictionary
, 381.

707. Skidmore,
The Civil War Journal of Billy Davis
, i, 149, 156.

708. Cammack,
Personal Recollections
, 21–22, 153–56.

709. Warner, Generals in Gray, 150, 159;

710. Reader,
History of the Fifth West Virginia Cavalry
, 30–32;
Upshur Record
, December 20, 1917.

711. Siviter,
Recollections of War and Peace
, xvii, xx–xxiv; Myers,
Myers' History of West Virginia
, vol. 2, 296.

712. Willey,
An Inside View
, 190–97;
O. R
. ser. 2, vol. 3, 813; Ambler,
Waitman Thomas Willey
, 20n.

713. Hall,
Rending of Virginia
, 471–72; Curry,
A House Divided
, 140, 176n; Willey,
An Inside View
, 208–09.

714. Plum,
The Military Telegraph
, vol. 1, 105–06; Stutler,
West Virginia in the Civil War
, 43–48; Christen, “Mrs. Van Pelt,” 23–24.

715.
O. R
. ser. 2, vol. 3, 218, 753, 775; Brigham, “The Civil War Journal of William B. Fletcher,” 46–47; Hall,
Lee's Invasion
, 161–64; Lang,
Loyal West Virginia
, 195.

716. Warner,
Generals in Gray
, 90, 342; Hall,
Rending of Virginia
, 192; Ambler,
Francis H. Pierpont
, 212.

717. Warner,
Generals in Blue
, 28; Keifer,
Slavery and Four Years
, vol. 1, 208.

718. “Trainer of Traveler,” 548–49; Deitz, “Ghost of Traveler,” 13–18.

719. Toney,
Privations
, 69, 80, 122, 124.

720. Lang,
Loyal West Virginia
, 243.

721. Ashcraft,
31
st
Virginia Infantry
, preface; Cook,
Lewis County in the Civil War
, 117.

722. Hall,
Diary of a Confederate Soldier
, 137, 139.

723. Monfort, “From Grafton to McDowell,” 19–20; Bierce,
Battlefields and Ghosts
, 16–17.

724. Pool,
Under Canvas
, 49–50. The verse is from “Lines on the Death of Serg't Price and Respectfully Inscribed to Co. A 14th Reg't Ind. V.M.” by “W.H.A. Cheat Mountain, Va. Oct. 6, 1861.” Sergeant J. Urner Price died of wounds received at the Battle of Greenbrier River.

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