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/747.1.2.1 Message Board Post: I'll check for Abner Brown in the 46th Alabama and let you know what's available. If I can have the names for your 6th and 31st Alabama soldiers, those can be checked, too. BTW, there's a great website for the 6th Alabama! I don't have ready access to Georgia service records, but if a soldier became a prisoner of war, POW ledgers on which his name appears should be with his NARA compiled service record. Alabama pension applications and Alabama Confederate service records are readily accessible. I also provide a transcript that spells out exactly what the service file tells us. That's important when words used in the records aren't clear or don't make sense. For instance, a hospital entry may say a soldier was admitted for "vulnus sclopeticum". That's a medical term for gunshot wound, also abbreviated v. s. or v/s. In each case, I'd like to have full names and 1860 county residences if possible to be certain we're talking about the right man. I may have to do some research to determine the facts about a soldier, but that's not usually necessary. I can also check other sources, such as obituaries in Confederate Veteran magazine and the Alabama census of Confederate veterans of 1907. The 1907 census helps us because it normally includes an exact birth date and place of birth. If interested please contact me at the email address shown and I'll try to answer your questions. I'll also explain my terms and conditions. Also, whenever possible, I'd like to post replies on this message board so that other readers may benefit.