Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Colonel F. G. Ruffin” in chapter 33, page 244 of Judith White McGuire, Diary of a southern refugee during the war, by a lady of Virginia:

...lonel Northrup, Commissary-General, to ask an appointment as clerk in his department. So many of the young men have been ordered to the field, that this office has been open to ladies. My cousin, Colonel F. G. Ruffin , of the same office, has interested himself for me. They require us to say that we are really in want of the office-rather a work of supererogation, I should say, as no lady would bind herself to kee...
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