Fithian, The source I use to find soldiers just for Name, State, Rank, Company, and Regiment is the Confederate Roster compiled by Broadfoot Publishing Company that I have on CD. The cd contains approximately 1,500,000 names. The only drawback for most people in getting it is the price ($450). I mainly concentrate on soldiers from North Carolina and once I find a soldier's company and regiment, I can look him up in the volumes of "North Carolina Troops 1861-1865: A Roster" that I have. These volumes of books contain information on soldiers taken from many old records such as muster rolls, company records, regimental records, hospital records, and old UDC records. I've just been very lucky to be able to put together a fairly decent research library at home. I also have regimental histories in "North Carolina Regiments 1861-65'", a book and also a cd with listings of Confederate POW's who died in Union POW Camps, Confederate Enlisted Marines, etc. I'm always glad to help people find information on ancestors and just wish I had more detailed information on soldiers other than just those from NC. Two recent things I acquired that have been EXCELLENT reading on CD are the complete Slave Narratives and the Southern Historical Society Papers. If I can ever be of any future help to you or anyone else on the list, please feel free to contact me. Edward Harding Washington, NC SCV/MOSB Life Member SCV National Genealogy Committee Member

I will follow up on the reference you have mentioned, Edward. Again, thanks so much for your help. The CD sounds interesting, too, and I will definitely try to locate the Slave Narratives, and SHSP. Perhaps I can make requests in the future re N. Carolina's regiments. best regards, Fithian On Feb 19, 2006, at 4:58 PM, Edward Harding wrote: > Fithian, > > The source I use to find soldiers just for Name, State, Rank, > Company, and Regiment is the Confederate Roster compiled by > Broadfoot Publishing Company that I have on CD. The cd contains > approximately 1,500,000 names. The only drawback for most people > in getting it is the price ($450). > > I mainly concentrate on soldiers from North Carolina and once I > find a soldier's company and regiment, I can look him up in the > volumes of "North Carolina Troops 1861-1865: A Roster" that I > have. These volumes of books contain information on soldiers taken > from many old records such as muster rolls, company records, > regimental records, hospital records, and old UDC records. > > I've just been very lucky to be able to put together a fairly > decent research library at home. I also have regimental histories > in "North Carolina Regiments 1861-65'", a book and also a cd with > listings of Confederate POW's who died in Union POW Camps, > Confederate Enlisted Marines, etc. > > I'm always glad to help people find information on ancestors and > just wish I had more detailed information on soldiers other than > just those from NC. > > Two recent things I acquired that have been EXCELLENT reading on CD > are the complete Slave Narratives and the Southern Historical > Society Papers. > > If I can ever be of any future help to you or anyone else on the > list, please feel free to contact me. > > Edward Harding > Washington, NC > SCV/MOSB Life Member > SCV National Genealogy Committee Member > > > ==== 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 >