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soldier who died a few paces from Funkhouser furnished most of the information for a history of the forty-ninth written by Front Royal historian Laura Virginia Hale and Stanley Phillips of Lanham, Maryland.
The forty-ninth was one of the most colorful regiments in the Army of Northern Virginia but much of its history was not known until the discovery of Funkhouser’s' diary, the circumstances of which are not discussed in this book.
It was Funkhouser’s opinion, and that of other soldiers and statesmen of the time, that the incredible performance of the fortyninth was due in part to its colorful commander “Extra Billy” Smith. An exasparated President Lincoln called him, “that old game-cock” and it was true that Smith had no training in military procedure or discipline. He was sixtyfour when he put together his
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