Thomas, This one is always a tough one. OK you listers ----we'll need a lot of help on this one!! I assume you have his compiled military service record from NARA? Does his service record show him to be present with his unit prior to his date of death in hospital? If you can narrow down the last time present and the death date, and then determine where his unit was during this time, some of the listers have info on confederate hospitals and might be able to determine possibly which hospital he died in. If that can be determined, it would then take a search of cemeteries, etc., in the area. I'm assuming his records don't say which hospital. I've not been able to find much about the early history of the 37th; it was later renamed the 34th. Below is a brief history that mentions that the 37th fought in the battle of Perryville (Ky, I think) on Oct 8, 1862---just a few days before your ancestor died in hospital. The web site below covering the battle is very extensive; the 37th (34th) is listed in the Order of Battle. http://www.battleofperryville.com/ Brief History of the 34th Miss. Infantry The 34th Miss. was originally known as the 37th. Many of its men were from Tippah and Marshall Counties. It was immediately sent to Corinth and fought its first battle at Farmington, Tenn. May 9, 1862 as Gen. Grant advanced from Pittsburg Landing towards Corinth. It then moved with Gen. Bragg's army to Chattanooga and marched into Kentucy where it engaged in the battle of Perryville on Oct. 8, 1862. After this battle Co. K had only 7 men left available for duty, one of which was John Ellis Hicks. Bragg then retreated back to east Tenn. and moved in Nov. to Shelbyville, Tenn. On Dec. 27 they moved to Murfreesboro and fought in the battle of Murfreesboro on Dec. 31 and New Year's day, 1863. The 34th was in the thick of the battle at Chickamauga Sept. 18 - 20, 1863. From here they moved to Lookout Mountain and fought in that battle on Nov. 24th. They wintered at Dalton, Ga. and fought in the battles for Atlanta. Their beloved leader, Col. Benton, was injuried on July 22 and lost his right leg. He was commissioned Brig. Gen. on July 26th and died a couple of days later. When Benton county was split from Tippah in 1870 it was named for Gen. Benton. From Ga. they followed Gen Hood into Tenn. and took part in the battles of Franklin and Nashville. Hoods wrecked army crossed the Tenn. River on Dec. 26, 1864 and moved to the vicinity of Tupelo, Miss. for winter quarters. The brigade was furloughed until Feb. 12, 1865 and assembled at Meridian under orders to the Carolinas. They started east on Feb. the 18th and were detained some time at Montgomery Al. by the Mobile campaign. In March they preceeded to Augusta, Ga. and on to N.C. On April 3rd the aggregate present of the brigade was 283. On April 9, 1865, the 24th, 27th, 29th and 34th Miss. Regiments were consolidated in the 24th Regiment, Col. R. W. Williamson commanding brigade of Gen. W. F. Brantley, in D.H. Hill's Division of S.D. Lee's Corps. The army was surrendered April 26, 1865 and paroled at Greensboro, N.C. soon afterwards. Much of the above came from Military History of Mississippi by Roland Dunbar Hope this gets the troops to researching!! Jim Gilmer -------Original Message------- From: CIVIL-WAR-L@rootsweb.com Date: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 07:02:58 PM To: CIVIL-WAR-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [CIVIL-WAR] Lost Civil War Grave?? Does anyone have information on where the Mississippi Soldiers that died in Hospitals may be buried. Searched for two years for Pvt. Needham H. (N.H.) Temples of the Co E Shubuta Guards of Clarke County, 37th Infantry Reiment of Ms. He was Sick and died in a Hospital on 20 Oct 1862. No other information on his records..Any Ideas...Advice...Suggestions..Remember I have his Service records and there is nothing in them showing where he is buried. Thanks,,,for reading this... Thomas Temple ==== CIVIL-WAR Mailing List ==== To unsubscribe from list mode, email CIVIL-WAR-L-REQUEST@rootsweb.com and in the text area of the message, type only the word unsubscribe .

Does anyone have information on where the Mississippi Soldiers that died in Hospitals may be buried. Searched for two years for Pvt. Needham H. (N.H.) Temples of the Co E Shubuta Guards of Clarke County, 37th Infantry Reiment of Ms. He was Sick and died in a Hospital on 20 Oct 1862. No other information on his records..Any Ideas...Advice...Suggestions..Remember I have his Service records and there is nothing in them showing where he is buried. Thanks,,,for reading this... Thomas Temple

Thank you Jim, I appreciate your help and will forward this to Rebecca. It is nice when people like you, are willing to give a helping hand. Linda

Linda and Ann, On the Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System: http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/soldiers.htm Type in Smith, Sam, Georgia, Confederate in the respective boxes. You'll get him. Couldn't find anything on your Sam Smith in Ancestry.com. Here's where you can possibly find some information.: http://www.researchonline.net/gacw/index.htm Jim Gilmer -------Original Message------- From: CIVIL-WAR-L@rootsweb.com Date: Monday, September 15, 2003 04:56:35 PM To: CIVIL-WAR-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [CIVIL-WAR] Look-up Ann, I am forwarding this lookup for Rebecca, as she does not subscribe to the list. Hope you can help her. Thank you. Linda Hello, I am researching an ancestor named Sam Smith. Family history says he was a Sergeant in the 17th Battalion from Georgia. He signed up at etowah. I am trying to find some leads so that I can research him further. I am wondering if he might be on any list you might have. He was supposedly with Jefferson's infantry. I don't know anything about the 17th so hope some of this makes since. Thank you for any assistance. Rebecca Bangsund rlaneb1@aol.com ==== CIVIL-WAR Mailing List ==== To search our list archives since 1996, go to http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl and enter Civil-War in the list name .

Romayne, Here is what I found: Jim Gilmer From ancestry.com Surname Given Name Middle Initial Company Unit Rank - Induction Rank - Discharge Notes Allegiance Dillon William J. A 5 Pennsylvania H. Art'y. Sergeant Corporal Union William J Dillon Residence: Occupation: Service Record: Enlisted as a Corporal on 27 August 1864 Enlisted in Company Batty A, 5th Heavy Artillery Regiment Pennsylvania on 27 August 1864. Mustered out Company Batty A, 5th Heavy Artillery Regiment Pennsylvania on 30 June 1865 in Pittsburgh, PA List of Soldiers Regimental History PENNSYLVANIA TWO HUNDRED and FOURTH INFANTRY (FIFTH ARTILLERY) (One Year) Fifth Artillery. - Col., George S. Gallupe; Lieut.-Col., Joseph Browne; Majs., Michael Baer, Howard Morton, George M. Irwin, William H. Hope. This regiment, the 204th of the line, came from the counties of Allegheny, Lawrence, Beaver, Cambria, Westmoreland, Armstrong and Greene, rendezvoused at Camp Rey- nolds, Pittsburg, and was mustered into the U. S. service dur- ing the latter part of Aug. and the first 10 days of Sept., 1864, for a term of one year. Col. Gallupe was formerly major in the 8th reserve regiment and Lieut.-Col. Browne was major of the 102nd Pa. infantry. Shortly after its organization it left the state for Washington, where it did duty in the forts north of the capitol until Sept. 28, when it was posted along the line of the Manassas Gap railroad, then being opened up as a line of supply for Sheridan's army in the Shenandoah Valley. It was frequently engaged with Mosby's command while employed in this work, a number of the men being wounded and 22 cut off and captured at Salem on Oct. 8. A few weeks later, while at Piedmont, a detachment of the command with a squadron of the 13th N. Y. cavalry moved into the mountains and captured 4 guns and caissons of Mosby's artillery and a number of prisoners. About the end of October it returned to the forts of Washington for a few days and then returned to Virginia, being posted for the winter by detachments at Prospect hill, Vienna and Fairfax Court House. It was employed during this time in picket and guard duty and in building large stockades and block-houses. In the spring of 1865 detachments were sent to the Bull Run battlefield and decently buried some 2,000 dead, whose bodies had remained improperly cared for since the second battle there. In June it was ordered to Pittsburg, where it was re- ceived with public demonstrations, and finally mustered out on June 30, 1865. Source: The Union Army, vol. 1 Battles Fought Fought on 05 October 1864 at Rectortown, VA. Fought on 05 October 1864 at Salem, VA. Fought on 07 October 1864 at Salem, VA. Fought on 08 October 1864 at Rectortown, VA. Fought on 15 October 1864. Fought on 01 November 1864. -------Original Message------- From: CIVIL-WAR-L@rootsweb.com Date: Monday, September 15, 2003 11:03:10 PM To: CIVIL-WAR-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [CIVIL-WAR] Fifth Penn. Heavy Artillery An obit for my Gr. gr. grandfather, William Jackson Dillon says that he served in the Civil war in the Fifth Penn. Heavy Artillery. I am interested in leearning about any battlles he might have fought in . Can anyone tell me how to find this information.? Thanks, Romayne ==== CIVIL-WAR Mailing List ==== To search our list archives since 1996, go to http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl and enter Civil-War in the list name .

> An obit for my Gr. gr. grandfather, William Jackson Dillon says that he > served in the Civil war in the Fifth Penn. Heavy Artillery. I am > interested in leearning about any battlles he might have fought in . Can > anyone tell me how to find this information.? > Thanks, Romayne Romayne Below is information from Dyer on your GGF´s unit. One could logically presume that the 1st Battalion (a battalion is a group of companies - or in the case of Artillery, group of batteries) would have Battery "A" included and that he would have served at Prospect Hill. Logic does not always work in Battalion assignments so other research might be in order. I have also included his record from civilwardata.com which indicates he was in Battery A. You may want to send for his service and pension records at NARA. Hope this helps some. Mike 5th REGIMENT HEAVY ARTILLERY (204th VOLUNTEERS). Organized at Pittsburg August and September, 1864. Ordered to Washington, D.C., September, 1864. Attached to District of Alexandria, 22nd Corps, to November, 1864. 1st Separate Brigade, 22nd Corps, to June, 1865. SERVICE.--Duty in Northern Defences of Washington, D. C., and along Manassas Gap Railroad, protecting supplies for Sheridan, and constantly engaged with Mosby. Action at. Salem October 4, 1864. Rectortown October 7. White Plains October 11. Destruction of Manassas Gap Railroad October and November. Duty in the Northern Defences of Washington; 1st Battalion at Prospect Hill, 2nd Battalion at Vienna and 3rd Battalion at Fairfax C. H. Duty on Bull Run battlefield in spring of 1865, burying nearly 2,000 dead. Ordered to Pittsburg for muster out. Mustered out June 30, 1865. Regiment lost during service 3 Enlisted men killed and 46 by disease. Total 49. From CIVILWARDATA.COM William J. Dillon Residence was not listed; Enlisted on 8/27/1864 as a Corporal. On 8/27/1864 he mustered into "Batty A" Co. PA 5th Heavy Artillery He was Mustered Out on 6/30/1865 at Pittsburgh, PA

An obit for my Gr. gr. grandfather, William Jackson Dillon says that he served in the Civil war in the Fifth Penn. Heavy Artillery. I am interested in leearning about any battlles he might have fought in . Can anyone tell me how to find this information.? Thanks, Romayne

Dear Keith, Here is a story of a woman who served during the Civil War. She is buried in the cemetery where most of my family members are buried. Eleanor Richardson A Woman In A Man's Army Known during the Civil War as Private Bill Thompson, Lucy Matilda Thompson Gauss cut her thick hair and disguised herself by wearing a pair of her husband's suits and boarded a train for Virginia to fight alongside him during the early years of the Civil War. He never survived the war but "Private Bill" did -- bringing his body home for burial. Lucy Matilda Thompson was born November 21, 1812 in Bladenboro, North Carolina. She was tall and masculine -- though not without feminine charm -- and she was a deft horsewoman, expert with a rifle and relished hunting. In 1861, just as the war erupted, Thompson married Bryant Gauss who soon joined the Army of the Confederacy. Fearing he would be killed and lie unidentified, the new Mrs. Gauss oiled her squirrel musket and enlisted in Company D, 18th North Carolina Infantry, Confederate States of America. Neighbors and friends sympathized with her bravery and kept her identity secret. So did Captain Robert Tate and Lieutenant Wiley Sykes, who admired her ability with a rifle, her talent for jokes as well as her husky throated singing voice. They also prized her skill to nurse the camp's sick and wounded. Masquerading as Private Bill Thompson, Lucy participated in a number of battles, receiving a head wound either at the First Battle of Manassas or the Siege of Richmond. In any case the wound -- an iron shell scrap tore open her scalp from forehead to crown -- sent her to a hospital for two months. Somehow she managed to conceal her identity and fled back to her unit as soon as she could. Bryant Gauss was killed at the Seven Days Battle near Richmond. Lucy Gauss obtained permanent furlough and took him for burial. She bore her first child, Mary Caroline Gauss, on January 21, 1864. After the war, the widow and small child moved to Savannah, where in late 1866, Lucy Gauss married union army veteran, Joseph P. Kenney. Together they had six children. Remarkably, Mrs. Kenney gave birth to their first at the age of 55 in 1868, and the last in 1881 at the age of 69! Lucy Matilda Gauss Kenney kept her military exploits a secret until 1914, when she told her story to her pastor. Fearing nothing at the age of 102 but God, Lucy's motto was "Hold your head up and die hard." She lived in various parts of Georgia before she died in Nicholls, Georgia at the remarkable age of 112 years, 7 months and 2 days. Lucy Gauss Kenney is buried in the Meeks Cemetery near Nicholls. Joseph Kenney died September 7, 1913 at the age of 107 years 5 months and I day. Related Bibliography Edwards, Anne. Road to Tara. New York: Dell Publishing Co., Inc., 1983. Hoar, Jay S. The South's Last Boys ----- Original Message ----- From: keith d bailey <kbailey@frontiernet.net> To: <CIVIL-WAR-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 5:24 PM Subject: [CIVIL-WAR] Anyone know of resources to study women who served in the civil war > Hi all, > A researcher friend of mine, down at the library, has been trying to identify veterans buried in the area. Lately she has been cross-referencing pension applications for the Civil War. She has run across a pension application for a Matilda Padget who said she and her husband Alfred P. Padgett was in the 8th Battalion in GA. In the affidavit, she mentions that her husband had been killed in service (don't recall the battle), that she was a nurse during the civil war, and that she was released from service at ??? after the surrender. > I told my friend that I'd question the list for information. She wants to know: > > Does anyone know of a source that lists the involvement of women during the Civil War? > Would Matilda Padget be eligible for a Military Stone? She doesn't have one. > What information would be needed to get a military stone for her, if eligible? > > Thanks all for anything, > Keith Bailey > > > ==== CIVIL-WAR Mailing List ==== > To search our list archives since 1996, go to > http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > and enter Civil-War in the list name >

Ann, I am forwarding this lookup for Rebecca, as she does not subscribe to the list. Hope you can help her. Thank you. Linda Hello, I am researching an ancestor named Sam Smith. Family history says he was a Sergeant in the 17th Battalion from Georgia. He signed up at etowah. I am trying to find some leads so that I can research him further. I am wondering if he might be on any list you might have. He was supposedly with Jefferson's infantry. I don't know anything about the 17th so hope some of this makes since. Thank you for any assistance. Rebecca Bangsund rlaneb1@aol.com

Hi all, A researcher friend of mine, down at the library, has been trying to identify veterans buried in the area. Lately she has been cross-referencing pension applications for the Civil War. She has run across a pension application for a Matilda Padget who said she and her husband Alfred P. Padgett was in the 8th Battalion in GA. In the affidavit, she mentions that her husband had been killed in service (don't recall the battle), that she was a nurse during the civil war, and that she was released from service at ??? after the surrender. I told my friend that I'd question the list for information. She wants to know: Does anyone know of a source that lists the involvement of women during the Civil War? Would Matilda Padget be eligible for a Military Stone? She doesn't have one. What information would be needed to get a military stone for her, if eligible? Thanks all for anything, Keith Bailey

On 16 Sep 1862, Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan confronted Lee's Army of Northern Virginia at Sharpsburg, Maryland. At Dawn 17 Sep., Hooker's corps mounted a powerful assault on Lee's left flank that began the single bloodiest day in American Military history. Attacks and counter attacks swept across Miller's cornfield and fighting swirled around the Dunker Church, Union assaults against the Sunken Road eventually pierced the Confederate center, but the Federal advantage was not followed up. Late in the day Burnside's corps finally got into action, crossing the stone bridge over Antietam Creek and rolling up the Confederate right. At a crucial moment, A.P. Hill's division arrived from Harper's Ferry and counterattacked, driving back Burnside and saving the day. Although outnumbered two-to-one, Lee committed his entire force, while McClellan sent in less than three-quarters of his army, enabling Lee to fight the Federals to a standstill. During the night, both armies consolidated their lines. In spite of crippling casualties, Lee continued to skirmish with McClellan throughout the 18th, while removing his wounded south of the river. McClellan did not renew the assaults. After dark, Lee ordered the battered Army of Northern Virginia to withdraw across the Potomac into the Shenandoah Valley. That battle is not considered a victory by either side, maybe a strategic victory for the Federals. There were about 23,100 casualties in that engagement. From CWSAC Battle Summaries.

The DE Roster of Civil War Soldiers at the Bits of Blue and Gray website, now includes thru Spurline. I also invite you to a Civil War History chatroom on Thurday nights 9 PM ET at <A HREF="www.bhocutt.com">www.bhocutt.com</A> Click on the tab for Chat Cabins, under The Forums on the right. Once you get to the Lobby page you'll need to scroll down to the Please sign in area. If you have not been to the Chat Cabin's before, you will need to register. After you've registered, you will find CWHost Blue and CWHOST Gray in the Blue and Gray room. We give lectures or read letters, songs or poems of the period and each week, CWHost Gray usually has some trivia questions for us. The one thing we do NOT do in the room is refight the war. Jayne McCormick bitsobluengray@aol.com <A HREF="http://www.bitsofblueandgray.com/index.htm">bitsofblueandgray.com</A>

Have you researched a U.S. Civil War unit or group? Are you willing and able to help others research that unit? The next version of the U.S. Civil War Units File (CWUNITS) will become available in late May. An announcement will be posted then. In the meantime I invite listings through Friday, September 26. Also welcome are reports of non-working addresses in other people's listings, updates to your own listings, etc. For those who have had problems with the obsolete CWUNITS files at http://ftp.cac.psu.edu/pub/genealogy/roots-l/genealog/ and http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/academic/history/marshall/military/civil_war_usa/ I'm delighted to be able to report that they have been removed. Thanks again to the webmasters who were kind enough to help. If you write to me, please do *NOT* include this message in your reply. My time and disk space are limited. Also please do *NOT* include attached files. Thanks! The purpose of the CWUNITS file is to let people list units, groups, battles, etc. that they have information on (from pension records, books, etc.) and are willing to help other people research. Typically the contact person had an ancestor who was in the unit, but re-enactors, history buffs, et al. are welcome. (This is _not_ a list of re-enactment units.) People who are interested in a unit can send the contact person email and share information. If you have questions please read the FAQ first. If it doesn't answer your question, feel free to ask me. The following addresses no longer work. If you are one of these people or know how to contact one, please email me. Unless we find new addresses we'll have to delete their listings. adamsr@nku.edu cousin@ionet.net dleebrick@hsscam.mis.semi.harris.com rwilderj@whidbey.net Anyone who'd like to volunteer to be a contact, please send me email. If you are volunteering for more than one unit, it's OK to put them all in the same message. Please list your entries in this format (sample addresses are fake): Illinois (USA) 4th Illinois Cavalry, Co. F 1861-4 Abe.Lincoln@uky.edu http://www.fakesample.com/4thil 18th Reg. Ill. Infantry 1865 jd@fakesample.com (John Doe) (Somebody's Volunteers) Instructions -- include the following: Country (USA or CSA) and state. Start each entry with the number of the regiment or whatever. Years (if applicable, but not necessary). Your email address on each line. Your real name. If you have a web page for the unit, include the URL (but we need your email address and name too). Also please include a statement like "I volunteer to be a contact for this unit." This is so we can be sure that everyone we list understands what the file is for. This is a big project, and if you send listings in the wrong format we reserve the right to send them back for you to fix. If there's anything in your listings that is not obvious, tell me! If we can't get your listings complete and clear by the time I have to send the file to the uploaders, your listings cannot be included. If you already have listings in the file, there's no need to send them again. But if your address has changed, please tell me and send updated listings. CWUNITS is five files (plus one for the intro and one for the FAQ) as follows: Part Filename Contents 0 CWUNITS introduction only 1 CWUNITS1 USA national & states A-I 2 CWUNITS2 USA states K-N 3 CWUNITS3 USA states O-W 4 CWUNITS4 CSA national & states A-M 5 CWUNITS5 CSA states N-V Q FAQ frequently asked questions and answers Parts 1-5 include the intro as well as the listings. Within a state the units are organized by number (1st Infantry, etc.). On the WWW, the file is available on the American Civil War Homepage URL: http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/warweb.html under the heading Rosters & Regimental Histories. To get the current version of the file by email at any time: Send email to ROOTS-L-request@rootsweb.com (Upper and lower case count in the email address and everywhere else.) Subject: archive For part 2 (for example), send the text: get genealog.cwunits2 For the FAQ, send the text: get genealog.cwunitsq The period (.) has to be after genealog and before the file name. To get a listing of all of the ROOTS-L files, send the command get roots-l.catalog Carol Botteron (ancestors on both sides) botteron@alum.mit.edu

Hi group, We have added over 400 soldiers to the North Carolina Civil War Soldiers database this week. This database contains 4000 entries now. Hope it helps some of you. http://www.censusdiggins.com/nc_civilwar.html Happy Searchin, Brenda CensusDiggins.com http://www.censusdiggins.com Home of FREE databases and GenStuff GiveAway. Census Finder - Links to Free Census Records Online http://www.censusfinder.com

Hi Saralie, The website I gave in my previous email only showed the Confederate Roll of Honor up through November 22, 1862. I've checked my search engine and there are different Roll of Honor sites listed, but mainly for individual States. I know there is a book that was published containing all who are on the Roll of Honor and I'm now trying to locate a copy for my home library. Edward

Bentonville land to be added Trust will buy 313 acres of Civil War battlefield for state By RICHARD STRADLING, Raleigh News & Observer A Civil War preservation group will receive $414,000 from the state to help more than double the size of the Bentonville Battleground Historic Site, state officials will announce today. The Civil War Preservation Trust of Washington, D.C., will use the money to qualify for an even larger federal grant that will allow it to purchase 313 acres. When the trust finishes acquiring the land late this year, it will turn it over to the state, which runs the historic site. Earlier this year, the trust named Bentonville one of the nation's most endangered battlefields, mostly because of development creeping out from the Triangle. Even after the purchase, about 5,400 acres of the battlefield will still be privately owned. Most of the battlefield remains forest or farmland, as it was in March 1865 when nearly 80,000 Union and Confederate soldiers converged in southern Johnston County west of Goldsboro. The trust will buy a scattering of parcels along Harper House Road, just east of the current visitors center. Some of the land contains remnants of earthwork built by soldiers on both sides, including part of a well-defined trench dug by the Army of Tennessee, said Donny Taylor, manager of the site. Taylor said the state will build two roadside parking areas on the land, with signs that explain parts of the three-day battle. More than 4,100 men were killed, wounded or missing when Confederate Gen. Joseph Johnston tried to stop Gen. William Sherman's northward march through the Carolinas. The trust will spend nearly $1.4 million in all. The state share will come from the N.C. Natural Heritage Trust Fund. The federal government will put up $683,000, while the trust will raise the remaining $269,000. The trust doesn't think it will have any trouble coming up with its share, said Jim Campi, the group's director of policy. "I think patriotism has something to do with it," Campi said. "... [P]eople do want to know more about their history after 9/11."

N.C. wins Bill of Rights copy fight By MATTHEW EISLEY, Raleigh News & Observer North Carolina's copy of the original draft of the U.S. Bill of Rights is coming home, 138 years after it went missing from the state Capitol at the end of the Civil War. Federal prosecutors and the historic document's previous owner, Connecticut antiques dealer Wayne Pratt, have reached a deal: Pratt is giving it to the state, and the feds are dropping their lawsuit to get it, and also probably their threat to put Pratt in prison. "The people of North Carolina prevailed," U.S. Attorney Frank Whitney told U.S. District Court Judge Terrence Boyle at a court hearing Thursday in Raleigh. "Wayne Pratt showed good citizenship and returned to the people of North Carolina" one of the most important documents in the state's history, Whitney said. Boyle didn't rule an official end to the sixth-month court battle over the purloined parchment, but about all that remains is for him or someone else to decide whether former co-owner Bob Matthews, who helped Pratt buy the document for $200,000 from two elderly sisters three years ago, will get anything for it -- such as a $15 million tax write-off for donating, with Pratt, a document worth up to $30 million. "We want to see this document ultimately in North Carolina," said Matthews' attorney, Mike Stratton of New Haven, Conn. "We just don't want to see our interest in the document sidelined." For that, Matthews might have to sue North Carolina or Pratt, his former business partner and friend, who says there's no sale profit to share. "This was a gift to North Carolina," said Pratt's attorney, Tom Dwyer of Boston. "We didn't even ask for a dollar." Pratt had some incentive beyond charity to give the document up: Whitney had threatened to prosecute him for selling stolen property. Just last month, Dwyer denied knowing that the copy was North Carolina's. Gov. Mike Easley and Attorney General Roy Cooper, who was in court, want to put it on display at the N.C. Museum of History, where schoolchildren and other citizens can see what their state initially insisted on adding to the U.S. Constitution before joining the United States in 1789. The document, a handwritten draft of the proposed Bill of Rights, was among 14 copies President Washington ordered for the federal government and sent to the original 13 states to encourage them to ratify the Constitution and establish the nation. The draft contained 12 proposed constitutional amendments; 10 were adopted. They protect individual freedoms against the state and federal government. In the 1800s, North Carolina's document was displayed at the state Capitol. It disappeared when federal troops left Raleigh in1865 at the end of the Civil War. A soldier reputedly took it home to Tippecanoe, Ohio, then sold it to an Indiana man the next year for $5. An undercover federal agent posing as a buyer for the National Constitution Center museum in Philadelphia obtained it in March in a fake $5 million purchase.

Hello Edward: Thanks for listing this site as it does give a clear explanation of what the Honor Roll was. But do you know how complete this online list is? It seems unlikely that with North Carolina so prominent at Gettsyburg, no unit from NC is listed on the Honor Roll. I'm confused. Are there other sites with a more enlarged list or any books that we could study on it? Thanks for your help with this. Saralie Northam Oregon ----- Original Message ----- From: Edward Harding To: CIVIL-WAR-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 9:12 AM Subject: Re: [CIVIL-WAR] Re: Roll of Honor Mary, This website may give you a better understanding of the Confederate Roll of Honor. Hope this helps. http://www.rootsweb.com/~arclebur/csaintro.htm Edward ==== CIVIL-WAR Mailing List ==== To unsubscribe from list mode, email CIVIL-WAR-L-REQUEST@rootsweb.com and in the text area of the message, type only the word unsubscribe

Mary, This website may give you a better understanding of the Confederate Roll of Honor. Hope this helps. http://www.rootsweb.com/~arclebur/csaintro.htm Edward

I just read over what I had written and its plum goofy. What I wanted to ask IS....has anyone ever heard of the Roll of Honor, what did it mean, do you suppose theres a copy of it? Mary > Receiving my ggrandfather Isaac Huggins records from the Civil War it > showed his name appears on the Roll of Honor. At the bottom it says it was > from the Office of the Adjutant General of the State of NC in accordance > with resolutions ratified by the General Assembly of the State of NC. It > also says this card was made from the orginial record borrowed from the > Adjutant General of NC-M.S. 1043147 > Mary > maryfrank@the-i.net > > > > > > ==== CIVIL-WAR Mailing List ==== > To search our list archives since 1996, go to > http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > > -.-Spam and virus filtered by modusMail using Norman virus engine.-.-