[1]Nathan G. (Shanks) Evans was a Colonel on the day of the battle; he
was promoted to Brigadier General a few days later, the commission
to date from October 21st, the day of the battle.
[2]Oatlands.
[3]Burnt Bridge was at the point where present day Rt. 7 crosses Goose
Creek at the Country Club.
[4]Should be Philbrick.
[5]Harrison's Island is directly across from the bluffs at the
battlefield.
[6]Smart's Mill about ¾ mile north of the battlefield was on the Potomac
River near the mouth of Big Spring Branch--now the property of Mr.
Ellis Mills.
[7]Baker was a Colonel.
[8]Col. White here confuses Col. Charles Devens with Col. Thomas Devin.
Col. (later Bvt. Maj. Gen.) Charles Devens was the first Colonel of
the 15th Mass. Inf., later served as brigade and then division
commander with infantry. Col. Thomas Devin was Colonel of the 6th N.
Y. Cavalry, and during the winter of 1864-65 commanded a brigade of
cavalry encamped at Lovettsville.
[9]Col. E. R. Burt was carried into Leesburg and despite the best of
care died on the night of October 26.
[10]Col. Milton Cogswell, 42nd N. Y. (Tammany) Regiment.
[11]Col. William Raymond Lee, 20th Mass. Inf.
[12]Captain Carter and all of the succeeding names listed in connection
with the capture of prisoners that night were members of the 8th
Virginia Infantry, Loudoun's own regiment.
[13]Captain Timothy O'Meara, Company E, 42nd N. Y.
[14]Colonel William Barksdale--killed July 2, 1863, at Gettysburg, while
commanding a brigade of these same Mississippi Regiments.