Went yesterday to
call on General Kershaw. Found Henry Deas, Albert Doby and Charley Dunlap at
his headquarters. Neddy Dunlap is forage master, Tom Salmon, surgeon, Jimmy
Davis is adjutant of DeSaussure's Fifteenth Regiment South Carolina Volunteers.
John Kennedy is Colonel of a regiment; Jim Villepigue, quartermaster; Frank
Gilliard, major. Josie Dunlap is in William Shannon's old company, of which
Doby is now captain. Tom Chestnut is captain of a cavalry company. All the
above names are old acquaintances and schoolmates of Camden, South Carolina.
SOURCE: John Camden
West, A Texan in Search of a Fight: Being the Diary and Letters of a
Private Soldier in Hood’s Texas Brigade, pp. 59-60
