59 Academy students who served in the Civil War. Evans' "probate"
list contained the 
names of five Academy students who served with the Confederacy, while Pickard's
"letter" 
list contained the names of only three Academy students who served on the
side of the 
Confederacy. Both Pickard and Evans mutually agreed on the names of three
Academy 
students who served with the Confederacy. Pickard's letter contained a vivid
recollection of 
the three Academy students, who he believed had served on the side of the
Confederacy. 
The discrepancy in the names and numbers of Academy students, who served
with 
the Confederacy resulted from Evans' inclusion of the Vance twins, Charles
and Andrew, 
from Missouri, as having served on the side of the Confederacy. Pickard's
letter provided 
no mention of the Civil War services of the Vance twins, but he vividly described
his 
recollection of the three Academy students who he believed had served on
the side of the 
Confederacy. 
Pickard's "letter" list was primarily concerned with those Academy
students who 
"died in Civil War action". Since, in his letter, he stated that
his records contained the 
names of 63 Academy students who had served in the Civil War, he must have
decided to 
omit from his letter those additional names of Academy students who had served
in the 
Civil War and who survived. 
If Pickard's letter had provided the names of the 63 Academy students who
he 
believed had served in the Civil War, a direct comparison could have been
made with the 
names of the 59 Academy students contained in Evans' 'probate" roster.
Since Pickard's 
letter did not provide such information, the "probate" roster of
Evans must be accepted as 
being more comprehensive in the listing of the Academy students who served
in the Civil 
War. 
Both the "letter" roster of Pickard and the "probate"
roster of Evans listed the names 
of twenty-two Academy students who "died in Civil War service",
but these two rosters 
had only twenty-one names in common. Such discrepancy resulted from: 
1.     Evans' "probate" roster indicated that the Vance twins,
Andrew and Charles from 
Missouri, served with the Confederacy and Andrew "died in service'.
Pickard's 
"letter" roster did not provide reference to either of the Vance
twins as having served 
in the Civil War. 
2.     Both the "probate" roster of Evans and the "letter"
roster of Pickard indicated that 
Nicholas Dale served as a Union Soldier, but while Pickard believed Nicholas
Dale 
"died in service', Evans indicated that Dale had survived the Civil
War. 
Pickard died in 1914, seven years after he had sent his 1907 letter to Evans,
and 
Evans died in 1919. Perhaps Pickard and Evans subsequently corresponded relative
to the 
discrepancies in their lists concerning the number of Academy students who
served in the 
Civil War; those Academy students who had served with the Confederacy; and
those 
Academy students who did not survive the Civil War. If so, unfortunately,
such 
information is not available.