It must have been handled by the Trans-Mississippi Department, as it took place in Alexandria, La., a few months after the Red River Campaign. I had been told that Jack Bunch's book contained the Trans-Mississippi listings - that's why I bought the book - but apparently this one is not in there, so I am supposing (perhaps erroneously) that there's no record of it in the National Archives. The only reference I've ever seen to the court-martial is in John Murray's diary, and that only says that it happened, not what it was about or what the outcome was.

I haven't been to Jackson Barracks lately, and have heard that it was hit pretty hard by the hurricane. From what I heard, the entire collection was basically destroyed, and is in a freezer somewhere waiting for the technology to save it to be developed, but hopefully that's just a rumor. Do you know anything about whether that is true or not?