This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/xhC.2ACE/838.1 Message Board Post: Well, you can eliminate South Carolina. Judging from the service record index, looks like all the Birchields/Burchfields moved away before the war. It helps to know exactly where the people you want to find lived in 1860; that eliminates all the duplicates and dead ends. You referenced Jasper, which is the county seat of Walker County. Directly south of Jasper on the Warrior River is a community called Burchfield's Store in Tuscaloosa County. Burchfields settled that area well before the war. One of my ancestors served in Co. "G", 11th Alabama Regiment with John T. Burchfield from that area. He has an extensive service record as well as an Alabama pension application. Another unit recruited in that area was Company "G", 26th Alabama Regiment. Officers included 2nd Lt. Andrew J. Burchfield, who eventually became Captain Burchfield. Other members of this company were George W., G. B., M. D./N. D.,and Wilson Burchfield. Another company from the Tuscaloosa/Walker area was Company "K", 43rd Alabama Regiment. We find James P. (17), William T. (28) and William (56) Burchfield in that unit. (xx) = age. There are Alabama pension applicatoins for A. J. and G. B. Burchfield. The only other units that include Birchfield/Burchfield names on roll from this part of Alabama are Co. "C", 41st Alabama, recruited in Pickens County. James M. and M. Burchfield are found with that command. There is also a James J. Burchfield on roll with Co. "K", Hatch's 8th Alabama Cavalry, recruited in Tuscaloosa County. You can contact me at pittsaj14@hotmail.com about copies of service records and pension applications.