Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Dearing” in chapter 33, page 590 of Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia:

...ould strongly endorse his claims to promotion had he the opportunity. Dearing was at once given this command, though Lee wrote a few days later, in ordering the New Bern expedition, I propose Major Dearing for the command of the artillery of this expedition.
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Max. Freq. Min. Freq.
Entity Corpus Doc Corpus Doc  
† James Dearing 174 26 30 2 0 user votes
Dearing 192 0 50 0 0 user votes
St. Clair Dearing 57 0 3 0 0 user votes
Jim Dearing 16 0 0 0 0 user votes
J. Dearing 6 0 0 0 0 user votes
William Dearing 5 0 1 0 0 user votes
Calvin H. Dearing 4 0 0 0 0 user votes
H. L. Dearing 4 0 0 0 0 user votes
Theodore W. Dearing 4 0 0 0 0 user votes
A. Dearing 2 0 0 0 0 user votes
A. L. Dearing 2 0 0 0 0 user votes
C. Dearing 2 0 0 0 0 user votes
C. F. Dearing 2 0 0 0 0 user votes
Clair Dearing 2 0 0 0 0 user votes
Dennis Dearing 2 0 0 0 0 user votes
G. C. Dearing 2 0 0 0 0 user votes
W. A. Dearing 2 0 0 0 0 user votes
J. H. Dearing 1 0 1 0 0 user votes

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