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Ron, my principal sources of the Federals are the respective State Adjutant Generals reports, and the NARA microfilm for the U.S. Regulars, as well as those named on the regimental monuments here. For the Confederates, I have had access to the TN., GA., and Ala. NARA rolls, Booth's LA. rosters, KY's Adj. Gen., and some of the MS. NARA rolls which I could afford to purchase. I also have had some wonderful help from MO., MI., MS. and TX. researchers, as well as a couple of dozen old issues of newspapers. I know of no published list of all, though I intend to have as complete a list as possible in the appendix of my "River of Death" book. While I have better than 95% confidence in my Federal list of their killed and wounded, the Rebels can never be accurately accounted, due the loss of records with at Missionary Ridge and then Atlanta and Richmond. My physical lack of access to TX records, particularly of for the 7th TX Inf., has hamstrung me. MS. records are almost as sketchy. I have spun several hundred rolls of microfilm. Over 5,400 men were killed or mortally wounded here, at Chickamauga, the discrepancy with the published numbers coming mostly from the under-reporting of Federal deaths, as decreed by one of the early Chick. Commission chairmen. 2,800 round figure for the Rebs is probably rather accurate, though the cavalry cannot be reconciled even with the NARA microfilm. Any help from you Texas researchers would be welcome, again with the 7th, for whom I only think I found 4 of their dead here at Chickamauga. Thanks to any and all who can help honor these missing martyrs. Joe.

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