-----Original Message----- From: Barbara Buettner [mailto:buettner@hiwaay.net] Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2003 11:05 PM To: AL-CIVIL WAR-L@rootsweb.com Subject: HELP Importance: High Hello, I hope someone can help me with my unusual plight. Am trying to join UDC to honor my ggGrandfather,ALFRED ELI BURNS,(Blount Co.) who has a CSA Marker saying he was a Blacksmith with AL TENTH CAVALRY. Know he joined CSA late in war & have a description of his service, ie, chasing Wilson & being captured by Union at Selma, AL. I can't find a record of him anywhere. Familylore is he mustered in at Danville, AL. His wife received a pension from her 1st husband who was KIA earlier in the war. So don't guess War Dept. found any records on Alfred Eli Burns either. Do you suppose the Union made a record of their captives at Selma? If anyone has any ideas, I'd surely appreciate your help. Barbara in Cullman