Lee - I found these at the Rootsweb Mail List home page. http://www.public.usit.net/mruddy/ Is the Civil War Mail List Homepage. To subscribe to the Civil War list [email protected] for digest mode. To receive each post individually, replace the "D" with an "L". I LOVED Cold Mountain. I have read it without putting it down, and I listened to it on audio tape twice. While greatly fictionalized, I can imagine a great majority of it was painfully accurate - if not all to one individual - in this case Inman - but in a general sense to those southerners who tried to make their way home. Sandy