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/782.1.1 Message Board Post: Vanessa -- Thanks for providing basic links for others to use. Queries on the Alabama Civil War message board are often answered within a matter of days. Some additional help: first, while the ADAH in Montgomery has much of value, they do not have Alabama service records. The ADAH has a card file on Alabama soldiers, last names A-G being on-line: http://www.archives.state.al.us/civilwar/search.cfm The ADAH card files are helpful, but far from complete. Alabama service records are available on microfilm in the Southern Collection, Birmingham Public Library. Also available: National Archives microfilm on military organizations raised by the Confederate government, such as the 15th Confederate Cavalry, which includes soldiers that served in the "Mobile Dragoons". Indians who joined CSA units are also on file. Alabama pension applications are also in Birmingham. Wallace State College Library in Hanceville AL has National Archives service records for Confederate soldiers from every Southern state, Maryland to Texas, and Florida to Missouri. In addition, Wallace State Library has Unfiled Papers and Slips, CSA records which clerks didn't identify and file with other service records. I've solved at least one mystery by looking in that collection. If you don't mind waiting, write to the National Archives for CSA service records. It usually takes them months to process an order, and some orders are returned as "not found". They don't do research. Finally, I visit the libraries in Birmingham, Hanceville and the ADAH in Montgomery regularly. People interested in service records, pension applications or other "unsolved mysteries" may contact me at pittsaj14@hotmail.com. I will confirm availability of the records requested and reply. As for the "Covington Hunters", this company organized July 9, 1861, and received orders to leave Andalusia, Alabama, on July 26, 1861. Members enrolled at Camp Johnston, Alabama, August 7, 1861, and became Company "B", 18th Alabama Infantry. After the fall of Spanish Fort (April 8, 1865), survivors merged with those of Companies “G”. I'll check the service record requested and reply as to what's on file. If we know where this man lived in 1907 (if he was still living in Alabama) I can also check the CSA veteran census for other information, such as exact birthdate and birthplace.