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/830.1 Message Board Post: They were carded by the War Department a century ago. It was microfilmed by the National Archives forty years ago. Let me know if I can answer a specific question, or help in some other way.