"We found one or two other brigades of cavalry at Charllote and a great many paroled infantry soldiers and a host of small officials who had fled from Richmond. Mr. Davis shortly afterward arrived, escorted by the cavalry brigades of General Dibrell and Col. W. C. P. Breckinridge. In the course of a speech made by Mr. Davis to the soldiers and citizens who assemble to greet him, he was handed a dispatch announcing the assassination of Mr. Lincoln. He read it to the crowd, but, as far as I can remember, did not comment on it at all and, indeed, did not seem to credit its accuracy."

"In the course of a day or two information was received that the Sherman-Johnston armistice and treaty would onot e recongized by the Federal goverment, and we learned also that nearly everty other Confederate force on the eastern side of the Mississippi, with the exception of those at Charlotte, had surrendered. Mr. Davis, therefore, and his cambinet, with the five brigades commanded respectively by General Dibrell, General Ferguson, General Vaughn, Colonel Breckinridge and myself, as an escort all under command of Gen. John C. Breckinridge, left Charllote and marched in the direction of Washington, Georgia."

SCOURCE: "The Civil War Reminiscences of General Basil W. Duke, C.S.A." (with new introduction by James A. Ramage.) Cooper Square Press edition is an unabridged reproduction of the original work originally published, New York 1911. ISBN 0-8154-1174-X, pages 383 and 385.

This doesn't help much in proving who was definitely in the battle at Munroe's Crossroads (10 March 1865) but it does show us the leadership of what remained of the C.S.A. military after the evacuation of Richmond in April 1865. [dlb]