Talk:John D. Imboden

Ancestry
Imboden looks like a German name and means "in the ground". Is their any information about German roots on-hand? 91.37.104.31 (talk) 22:08, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
 * I looked at three of my book sources for info regarding his parents' families, and they did not contain much along these lines, just what is on the page already. Time for me to try that internet thingy. Others might come up with something in the mean time, so hang tight! Kresock (talk) 23:03, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Complete unreliability as a primary source
It's worth pointing out that Imboden appears to be a pathological liar, and his considerable body of post-bellum writing is considered almost entirely unreliable by modern historians. During his own lifetime he carried on a furious feud with Jed Hotchkiss over Jackson's orders during the battles of Cross Keys and Port Republic. For nearly a year, Hotchkiss pressed Imboden for details concerning the orders he claimed Jackson personally gave him. Eventually, Hotchkiss disclosed that it was he who delivered Jackson's orders to Imboden, and had recorded that detail in his own meticulously kept diary. Any source, including Wikipedia, that cites Imboden's writing is suspect. Sofa King (talk) 01:51, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

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more work needed
I am cleaning up the article somewhat today, which started with adding his dates as a Virginia legislator. I noticed that his middle name might in fact be "David" rather than the "Daniel" given, according to the article in the West Virginia Encyclopedia published by the West Virginia Humanities Council in 2006. Part of the difficulty may be the fairly poor handwriting and indexing in the census, as well as that he normally only used a middle initial.Jweaver28 (talk) 18:25, 10 August 2019 (UTC)