Sometimes the indexes aren't correct. When I sent to NARA for the pension file of one of my 2g-grandfathers, giving the company and regiment, they couldn't find a file. Later I fond him in the pension index on ancestry.com. I sent the certificate number to NARA and then got his pension file. On the other hand, some pension files that I have gotten from NARA aren't on the ancestry.com index. Quite likely the names were transcribed incorrectly. -----Original Message----- From: Captain Gerard J. Nolan [mailto:surveyor@rivnet.net] Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 4:40 PM To: CIVIL-WAR-IRISH-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [Civil-War-Irish] 62nd NY Vol Infantry Bob: Unless he or his spouse applied for a pension, there will be no pension record. The Adjudant Generals Office is the definitive document for each of the several states. I can find no pension application for my gr-grandfather Michael Francis Nolan, yet, he was wounded and crippled just outside of Richmond, Va. Evidently he never filed for one. Again, in the case of several gr-granduncles, only two out of four filed. This is all I could find on your John Cooley on my Civil War Cd-rom: Company: G Unit: 62 N. Y. Infantry. Rank In: Private Rank Out: Private National Archives Microfilm Box, Roll, and Record: 000551, 0028, 00003263 Fought for: (U = Union, C = Confederate): U Dont give up the ship. Gerard J. Nolan Lottsburg, Va. 22511