Federal Pension Records are on-line for 10 days free at Ancestory.com. Be sure you check the State you think/know they lived in at enlistment and the States where you think/know they lived after The War. For uncommon names you would do best not to pick a State. I have found some mis-spelled even when the actual image is clear, so look carefully! Carleen http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/military/cwpi/main.htm