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/690.1 Message Board Post: hey, I am very very new to looking at my genealogy names for civil war connections. Can you tell me the best place to even start??? All of these battles and skirmishes just confuse me. Most of my families are in Marshall/DeKalb/Etowah, Ala, McMinn, TN, Alpharetta, Ga. THANKS, LINDA