In a message dated 10/27/1999 4:17:03 AM Pacific Daylight Time, CAGLE-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > For what ever reason he went from a CSA unit, to > a Union Army unit. Was he from the Winston Co., AL area? Many people in this area were known for being Union Loyalists. The young men of the area would "lay out" in the woods to hide being conscripted into the Confederate armies. My ggg-grandfather tells something of this in testimony he gave to the government after the war. In one part he said he fed the "boys who were lying out to evade the conscript agents and Confederate scouts." You can read more of this on the USGenWeb Archives for Winston Co., AL. Anyway, it could be that your ancestor was conscripted into the Confederate army and then "escaped" to join the Union Army. Delanie Alcorn-Jones Colleyville, TX