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- ↑ "Search for Battle Units - the Civil War (U.S. National Park Service)". Soldiers and Sailors Database. National Park Service. Retrieved 2024-01-11.
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- ↑ Driver 1999 , p. 92
- ↑ "Confederate Veteran". 1894. p. 165. Retrieved 3 January 2024.
- ↑ Official Records, Series I, Volume XLIII, Part 1, pages 5-6
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