[4] Julius Sitgreaves was one of two men, the other, South Carolinian newspaper editor Edmund Ruffin, credited with firing the first shot in the American Civil War at the onset of the battle for Fort Sumter.

[5] At the time of his death in 1912, Julius was an editorial writer for the publication American Art News in New York City.

[6] Beverly received her early education at Mount de Chantal Academy near Wheeling, West Virginia, not far from where she and her family had settled after the war.

[7] Mansfield's Beau Brummel was staged at the Madison Square Theatre in May 1890, a play in four acts subdivided into six scenes.

[12] The Heir to the Hoorah was presented for the 100th consecutive time in July 1905, with Sitgreaves acting the part of Kate Brandon.

[14] Sitgreaves and Bernhardt were both patrons of the new French Theatre which was planned for the Broadway (Manhattan) and Times Square area.

Bernhardt was playing in New York at the time and sent a letter to Sitgreaves expressing support when she was solicited for assistance.

[19] Sitgreaves participated in a benefit at the Waldorf-Astoria to raise money for an annex of the Loomis Sanitorium for Consumptives at Liberty (village), New York.

[21] In February 1923 she provided impersonations of Duse and Bernhardt in a benefit called a vaudeville soiree de gala at the Booth Theatre.