The two asterisked locations on this map indicate a proposed path different from that of the recorded notes from the 9th Michigan Cavalry Regiment. 

In Naked Genius, Horton includes a poem entitled “A Beautiful Moonlit Night in April” which details an April night using biblical and mythological references. Throughout the poem, there are specific references to Pilot Mountain and the Yadkin River, located in Surry and Yadkin Counties. However, there is no date attached to the poem – leaving it unclear which year the poem was written. In 1865, Horton could have potentially been in the mountains heading up North with the disbanded 9th Michigan Cavalry Regiment. This hypothesis would impact the believed path traveled by the regiment; however, it is possible that the path published in Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War (1861-1865) is slightly incorrect due to omission. The records used are spotty and not always accurate, so it is completely possible that the regiment sidetracked in a different direction, leaving Chapel Hill for Surry and Yadkin Counties instead of Concord.