The Grady McWhiney collection at McMurry University could
settle the question. Here is a link to their site. It is one of the largest collections of period documents in existence.
http://www.mcwhiney.org/collect/collection.html
Thank you. The thread has become so contentious with each side adamant and unyielding I decided to abandon it. To satisfy my own curiosity I will go to the link. Thanks.
Unfortunately, nothing is available online except to students and faculty of McMurray State who must login with a university assigned password.
An interesting point I learned yesterday while roaming around on the internet was that William Tecumseh Sherman, the union general who burned and looted his way through the South was the first president of Louisiana State University and was there when the war started. LSU later became the home base for T. Harry Williams, friend of McWhiney and an award winning historian of the South.