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Did you know …
The designer of the State Seal of California became a Confederate officer?
The majority of the founding fathers of California as a state became Confederates?
Southern California nearly seceded in 1860, a year before South Carolina?
The Californios (Mexicans of California) from before the US annexation of 1848 were largely Confederate in sympathy?
Many well-known cities of California were founded by Confederates?
A great number of Union soldiers and sailors, much needed in the East, were tied down in California to suppress the vociferous anti-union press, put down constant insurrections and riots, and chase numerous bands of Confederate partisans and guerrillas?
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An invaluable source for Tar Heel soldiers, and the base information for all material contained within this work, is the multi-volume series, North Carolina Troops 1861-1865 A Roster. Additional resources included National Archives Record Group 109, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Confederate Medical Department Hospital Records, and Prisoner of War Records. Material obtained from the National Archives was supplemented by casualty lists, such a s S u r g e o n I s a a c S . T a n n e r 's r e c o r d o f w o u n d e d fr o m H o k e 's D i v i s i o n ; S u r g e o n H a n a h a n 's r e c o r d o f w o u n d e d f r o m H a g o o d 's B r i g a d e ; h o s p i t a l l i s t i n g s a n d o b i t u a r i e s in wartime newspapers; Confederate pension applications filed by veterans and their wives; soldier letters, diaries, and journals; and postwar unit histories. More than 1,300 names are listed in Final Roll Call.
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