This may be of no use whatsoever to you, but while scanning the Florida CSA Pensions list I came across a JAMES L. WHIDDON (wife SARAH ARNOLD Home Guard, DeSoto County, 1907 18 pages. The # on it is 01449. These are evidently people who petitioned in the state of Florida for a pension after the Civil War. Since I am looking at Cardwells and McNeals in Florida, maybe we will make a connection someday. :} Best regards, Emma