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References
- New York Times, September 24, 1861.
- Prokopowicz, Gerald J., All for the Regiment: The Army of the Ohio, 1861-1862. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. ISBN 0-8078-2626-X.
- Speed, Thomas, The Union Cause in Kentucky, 1860-85. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1907.
