David Guitar House
Property name
It is commonly thought David Guitar served in the Confederate forces, but this is a myth perhaps started by a previous owner of the house, Ward Dorrance, who renamed the property Confederate Hill while he owned it from 1940 to 1953. Dorrance was a fiction writer and teacher. He left his papers to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Other documentation of Guitar's Union service includes the front-page obituary published on Jan. 2, 1912, in the University Missourian. The National Register of Historic Places document cites the correct source and page but concludes incorrectly that the Enrolled Missouri Militia is a Confederate force. Further, Switizler's History of Boone County contains no records of Confederate service records, because "There are no official records accessible of the Confederate soldiers, and but few of the Federals."
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "Missouri Digital Heritage".
- ^ Switzler, William F. (1882). History of Boone County. St. Louis: Western Historical Company. p. 482.
- ^ "Ward Allison Dorrance Papers, 1935-1974".
- ^ Marie C. Nau (April 1993). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: David Guitar House" (PDF). Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Retrieved 2016-09-01.
External links
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