I went to one of the Web sites and have learned the following: Joseph O. Trim, Union Infantry, 4th. Regiment Maine Infantry, Company H.D., Rank Private, Film Number M543 Roll 21. Can someone tell me what H.D. means? Also - Film Number M543 Roll 21? Where do I search now for more information? Thanks for any assistance. Jean Cromwell, Historian Pinellas Park, Florida

ECGINGER@aol.com wrote: > > I went to one of the Web sites and have learned the following: > Joseph O. Trim, Union Infantry, 4th. Regiment Maine Infantry, Company > H.D., Rank Private, Film Number M543 Roll 21. > > Can someone tell me what H.D. means? Also - Film Number M543 Roll 21? Where > do I search now for more information? ------------------------- Hi Jean, 1. He was in Company H and later transfered to Company D. 2. That's the specific microfilm number where he's at in the index to compiled service records for Maine soldiers. However, since this is only an index, there's not much more info there than you already have now. 3. a. You can order his service record from the National Archives in D.C. http://www.archives.gov/research_room/genealogy/military/civil_war_records.html tells you how. b. Service records will have little to no genealogical info. Pension records (also at NARA) have more. c. Flesh things out by studying his unit. Recommend "With our Faces to the Foe: A History of the Fourth Maine Infantry in the War of the Rebellion" by Peter P. Dalton Dennis