Exactly! And then we have those two odd (but revealing) "telegraphic conversations" between Hindman and Holmes in December 1862 in which they apparently sat in their respective telgraph offices in VB and LR and "conversed." If my memory is correct, the copybooks do not contain those exchanges, though there are disorganized "notes."

When the Alexander Papers are fully digested, we will have a much clearer and a very different view of Confederate actvities in Arkansas in 1862-63.