In a message dated 8/10/06 10:54:05 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, donna.mr@comcast.net writes: I wonder if this Civil War record on Ancestry is your Charles C. Buck???? His age is right and he was discharged at Lynchburg. Name: Charles C Buck Occupation: Laborer Enlistment Date: 17 May 1861 Distinguished Service: DISTINGUISHED SERVICE Side Served: Confederacy State Served: Virginia Unit Numbers: 795 795 Service Record: Enlisted as a Private on 17 May 1861 at the age of 31 Enlisted in Company A, 37th Infantry Regiment Virginia on 17 May 1861. Absent, sick on 15 August 1861 at Monterey, VA (Estimated day) Hospitalized on 15 January 1862 at Staunton, VA HELLO AGAIN DONNA, YES.........THIS DEFINITELY LOOKS LIKE IT. I REMEMBER MY LATE AUNT ONCE TELLING AND READING IN HER WRITINGS THAT C.C. BUCK WAS A CONFEDERATE VETERAN......(SOMETHING I'D LIKE TO KEEP QUIET BEING THAT I'M A NEW YORKER AND OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN DESCENT...... FROM WHAT I UNDERSTOOD, HE WAS MADE TO ENLIST AGAINST HIS WILL........OR BE SHOT. SINCE TRANPLANTED YANKEES WERE THEN CONSIDERED NO MORE TRUSTWORTHY THAN THAT ONES WHO STILL LIVED UP NORTH...... AGAIN.........THANKS ALOT. TIM