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Butler is already covered (Benjamin Franklin Butler)... Scott Mingus 02:14, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes, I suspect an editing error as the book states Major General Benjamin Freeman Butler. I've also noticed that for James Kilpatrick Blunt for James Gilpatrick Blunt among others. MadMax 04:25, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
 * MadMax, also note that the Cary Sisters are covered with separate articles (Phoebe Cary and Alice Cary), although both could use expansion. I redirected a number of other red links to blue links (Solid Shot, Sibley Tents, etc.). Great list - thanks! Scott Mingus 11:04, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Recent edits: corrections; more than one "Camp Misery"?
I corrected four entries prior to writing this note. I see that Scott Mingus had pointed out two of these errors in 2006 but no correction seems to have been made at that time. Camp Misery was a nickname for several camps, a Confederate camp near Yorktown at the start of the Peninsula Campaign, a Union camp in Stafford County, Virginia after the battle of Fredericksburg and one (Camp Butler, Springfield, Illinois) or more prisoner of war camps. Someone will need to look at the original article in order to see whether it is covered in Wikipedia under another name or topic or whether it is still missing. I am editing this comment to add that I have seen a reference to a "Camp Distribution," a gathering place for "derelicts" and wounded or healing soldiers which was connected or near the Soldiers Home run by the U.S. Sanitary Commission in Washington, D.C. and was substantially cleaned up when a Commission representative saw it. Yet one more possibility for Camp Misery. Donner60 (talk) 06:45, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

Camp Breckenridge
Following is from the Handbook of Texas Online, http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/CC/qbc5.html, retrieved today "CAMP BRECKENRIDGE. Camp Breckenridge was on Gunsolus (now Gonzales) Creek six miles above its confluence with Hubbard Creek, near Crystal Falls in northern Stephens County. The camp was established by Col. James M. Norris with half of Capt. John Salmon's company of the Frontier Regiment on March 21, 1862. Salmon's company, which was organized in February 1862 with slightly more than 100 men, maintained Camp Salmon in southwestern Stephens County and Camp Breckenridge as a deterrent against Indian aggression. However, Capt. R. Whiteside, who commanded at Breckenridge in 1863, stated that the only service satisfactorily rendered was to carry the mail, because "the patrol keeps our horses poor and when we find Indians they can outrun us." Beset by inadequate supplies, low morale, and frequent changing of officers, the camp supplied little real service. A report late in 1863 found only twenty-six out of fifty-four men who should have been in camp: one had been killed, four were absent without leave, and the rest were either sick, on patrol, or hunting for lost horses. The entire Frontier Regiment was mustered into regular Confederate service in the last year of the Civil War. The camp was used briefly during Reconstruction by area settlers who took refuge there against Indian raids.

"BIBLIOGRAPHY: Loy W. Hartsfield, A History of Stephens County (M.A. thesis, University of Texas, 1929). William Curry Holden, "Frontier Defense in Texas during the Civil War," West Texas Historical Association Year Book 4 (1928)."

This camp seems somewhat obscure. Perhaps it is the Camp Breckenridge mentioned in the encyclopedia or perhaps there was another. I could not find —Preceding unsigned comment added by Donner60 (talk • contribs) 07:19, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

David H. Todd may be David Tod
David Tod was governor of Ohio for two years during the Civil War. There is a Wikipedia article on him. In the absence of finding any reference to a "David H. Todd," I suspect Governor Tod may be the person referred to. Donner60 (talk) 08:10, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

Dog tent may be pup tent
Wikipedia has a long article on tents in which the pup tent and a larger similar tent, the ridge tent, are briefly described. I suspect the "dog tent" referred to as one of the missing articles may refer to what we would call a pup tent and which I believe was sometimes called a pup tent even at the time of the Civil War. Donner60 (talk) 08:22, 18 October 2010 (UTC)