Beverly Caroline and Liz gave you excellent answers (CMSR's and Pension Files). I don't recall exactly where you live, but if you are "closer" to Birmingham, the Birmingham Public Library has both of these series on microfilm as well. It's where I obtained B.P.'s information. Also remember the CMSR's are just the cards created to refer to another source... so you **typically** are not going to see the actual record but rather a reference to the muster roll the soldier was on, etc. For some records though if they apply **only** to that soldier you might see letters and correspondence and if you are lucky you might get an actual physical description of your soldier (height, weight, eye color, hair color, etc). BTW, I haven't forgotten about B.P., in fact I was able to visit Centreville on Friday and I have about 400 images on JONES', CAMPBELL's, COBB's, PERRY's, etc... problem is I now have to figure out what I have. Pretty much from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. (with a quick break for lunch) I was pulling ledger size books, identifying what they were and snapping photos of what I needed. Melissa ________________________________ Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 11:49:56 -0500 From: "Beverly Beasley" <auntb2006@bellsouth.net> Subject: [ALBIBB] Military records Does anyone no where I can get Confederate Civil War Records? Beverly auntb2006@bellsouth.net

Congrats on your record findings. Thanks for the reply. Beverly ----- Original Message ----- From: Melissa Hogan To: albibb@rootsweb.com Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2008 7:26 AM Subject: Re: [ALBIBB] Military records Beverly Caroline and Liz gave you excellent answers (CMSR's and Pension Files). I don't recall exactly where you live, but if you are "closer" to Birmingham, the Birmingham Public Library has both of these series on microfilm as well. It's where I obtained B.P.'s information. Also remember the CMSR's are just the cards created to refer to another source... so you **typically** are not going to see the actual record but rather a reference to the muster roll the soldier was on, etc. For some records though if they apply **only** to that soldier you might see letters and correspondence and if you are lucky you might get an actual physical description of your soldier (height, weight, eye color, hair color, etc). BTW, I haven't forgotten about B.P., in fact I was able to visit Centreville on Friday and I have about 400 images on JONES', CAMPBELL's, COBB's, PERRY's, etc... problem is I now have to figure out what I have. Pretty much from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. (with a quick break for lunch) I was pulling ledger size books, identifying what they were and snapping photos of what I needed. Melissa ________________________________ Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 11:49:56 -0500 From: "Beverly Beasley" <auntb2006@bellsouth.net> Subject: [ALBIBB] Military records Does anyone no where I can get Confederate Civil War Records? Beverly auntb2006@bellsouth.net ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ALBIBB-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message