Hi Listers, I just received a set of documents re Swinton Dunlop, and even more for Swinton's cousin James Dunlop from the USA National Archives. I'd never heard about these 2 young men's involvement in the USA Civil War, and their fates before now.As to their relationship to me. John Dunlop of Drumboy Fenwick and Agnes Paton had as children 6 sons and 3 daughters. The sons were James, David, Robert, Hugh, John, and Dewar (my gggrandfather). The daughters were Ann, Mary Paton and Agnes. The Civil War soldier Swinton mentioned above was a son to the brother David, while the James mentioned above was a son to the brother John. I was quite surprised to learn of this involvement in the USA, where both cousins died. James had joined as a private in 1861, coming down from his new home in Ontario, was promoted twice to sergeant, and then wounded at Antietam VA. In 1863, when his regiment (12th Massachusetts) was disbanded, he was offered a commission as 2nd Lieutenant in the 59th Mass. He then recruited his newly arrived cousin, from Scotland to Ontario, Swinton. In 1864 they were involved in the Battle of the Wilderness Virginia, where Swinton (age 20) was shot and died. In July of that year, James was captured and died (age 23) in a Confederate prison camp at Danville NC, of sunstroke a few eeeks later. Whether this was due to a lack of water provided to the prisoners, who would have been kept outside, or as a result of wounds I don't know. Having lived as a child in the South, I understand how sunstroke would have easily occured in late July there. Two weeks prior, he had been promoted again to 1st Lieutenant. The fathers of both these young men were fine Fenwick folk, steeped in the Abolitionist sympathies of Fenwick I'm sure. Before the war, little Fenwick paid the way for the great black Abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglas to sail from the USA, a crowd gathered to hear him speak at the parish church, and he was presented with a large sum for the cause. I guess it shouldn't surprise me that these 2 young men would put their lives on the line, and pay the ultimate price for a great cause. Sad, but very appropriate for our Memorial Day today. I'll be rereading their records today. Jim Bundy PS, I hope to somehow figure out where they might be buried (maybe Arlington National Cemetery?)