The City Point Explosion

[10th Michigan Infantry]

OR V46P3, p. 1250.
Dillard and Maxwell's immediate superior was Capt. Z. McDaniel.
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OR S4V4, p. 177.
Captain Z. McDaniel was a PACS officer who was directly authorized to raise a company by the Confederate Congress.
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His company were among a select few raised by special order; a more famous example of one of these companies would be Lieut. Bennett H. Young's.
OR S4V4, p. 491.
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