The bound notebook of Robert Thurston Hubard, Jr., in the University of Virginia's manuscripts collection, provides a lot of detail on his unit's activities during the war, Company G of the 3rd Virginia Cavalry (Cumberland Light Dragoons), including a full description of their "showy" uniforms at the beginning of the war when their troop of horse numbered about 70 strong. Hubard also describes the origin of the term "Company Q," attributing it to an unspecified body of mounted men who apparently comprised a bunch of scattered stragglers, perhaps around mid-1863 based upon when Hubard related the story. The term then "spread like wild fire throughout the army," because, as Hubard so aptly put it, "soldiers have a very lively appreciation of anything ludicrous or witty." The term, according to Hubard, came "to be applied finally to all used up parties, whether cavalry or infantry."