On August 27, 2022, our Confederate compatriot William E. (Bill) Lockridge has "crossed over the river." He passed quietly at his home in Mint Hill, NC.
Bill, known as Selma Hunter on this forum, served the civil war relic hunting & collecting community for many decades by freely sharing from his vast knowledge-base, built from his never-ending research into Confederate archival records. As his posting-name implies, his specialty was the Selma Arsenal and its products. He was the author of several authoritative books on that and related subjects.
As I mentioned to Bill in one of our phonecalls a few years ago:
There is a passage in the book "Company H" by Pvt. Sam Watkins, 1st Tenn. Volunteer Infantry Regiment CSA, in which the now-elderly veteran suggests that in the Afterlife soldiers like him and his fellows would get to re-fight the battles, and discuss the events and outcome afterward.
In accord with that belief, I am sure our compatriot Bill Lockridge is now getting answers to questions he'd not been able to resolve in this life, by discussing them with his Confederate heroes, such as CSN Commander John M. Brooke, and CSN Lt. Catesby Ap Jones.
"[Precisely] as you have believed, so it shall be done for you." -- Christ Jesus
As brother Bill often said in closing... VBR,
Pete George