Chapter I: Front Matter

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THE COMANCHES:

A HISTORY OF

=WHITE’S BATTALION, VIRGINIA CAVALRY,=

LAUREL BRIG., HAMPTON DIV., A. N. V.,

C. S. A.

Written by FRANK M. MYERS. Late Capt. Co. A, 35th Va. Cav.

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_Approved by all the Officers of the Battalion._

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BALTIMORE:
KELLY, PIET & CO., PUBLISHERS,
174 and 176 Baltimore Street.
1871.

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Entered, according to an Act of Congress, in the year 1871, by
KELLY, PIET AND COMPANY,
in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

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_Exeter, Loudoun Co., Va., Dec. 2, 1870._

_Captain F. M. Myers:_

_Dear Sir,—We, the undersigned, officers of the Thirty-fifth Battalion, Virginia Cavalry, C.S.A., having examined the MSS. of your history of the same, do most heartily endorse the said history, and must congratulate you upon the graphic manner in which you have related the story of their deeds of daring, their trials and sufferings for the “Lost Cause.”_

_Most respectfully, your old comrades and companions in arms,_

_ELIJAH V. WHITE,
Late Lieut.-Col. Thirty-fifth Va. Cav._
_J. R. CROWN,
Late First Lieut. Co. B, White’s Bat._
_BENJ. F. CONRAD,
Late Second Lieut. Co. A, Thirty-fifth Va. Cav._
_GEO. W. CHISWELL,
Late Captain Co. B, White’s Battalion._
_ED. J. CHISWELL,
Late Second Lieut. Co. B, Thirty-fifth Va. Cav._
_WM. F. BARRETT,
Late First Lieut. Co. A, White’s Battalion._
_WM. F. DOWDELL,
Late Captain Co. C, Thirty-fifth Va. Cav._
_J. MORT. KILGOUR,
Late Capt. and A.Q.M., Thirty-fifth Va. Cav._