Wow! Thanks! what a lot of them!! Bob Colby <[email protected]> wrote: Illinois State Archives Databases http://www.sos.state.il.us/departments/archives/databases.html He knows thousands of Ill.'s Civil War soldiers February 20, 2006 BY ANDREW HERRMANN Staff Reporter Advertisement Illinois State Archives director David Joens says, "You can't write the history of the Civil War without Illinois.'' And, he might add, not without some help from Fred Delap, either. Key players from the Prairie State include Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant. Although there were no Civil War battles on Illinois soil, the state provided 150 infantry regiments, 17 cavalry regiments and 10 artillery batteries for the war. And Delap? A retired Army master sergeant who lives in the small Downstate town of Kansas, Delap painstakingly typed into a computer details of about 285,000 Illinois soldiers who served in the Civil War. Transferring data from microfilm of large, handwritten ledger books, Delap worked two and often four hours a day for more than five years…. Go to for the complete story: http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-civilwar20.html# COLBY, ALBERT H PVT F 92 IL US INF SILVER CREEK, STEPHENSON CO, IL COLBY, CARLOS W 2LT G 97 IL US INF COLBY, CARLOS W CPL G 97 IL US INF ALTON, MADISON CO, IL COLBY, CHARLES A 1LT CHICAGO (IL) US LT INF COLBY, CHARLES A CPT D 19 IL US INF CHICAGO, COOK CO, IL COLBY, DAVIS PVT A 69 IL US INF CHICAGO, COOK CO, IL COLBY, DEXTER C PVT C 36 IL US INF BLOOMINGTON, MCLEAN CO, IL COLBY, EDGAR PVT H 16 IL US CAV MCHENRY, MCHENRY CO, IL COLBY, ENOCH SR 2LT A 1 IL US L ART (NEW) COLBY, ENOCH SR 1LT A 1 IL US L ART (NEW) COLBY, ENOCH JR PVT A 1 IL US L ART CHICAGO, COOK CO, IL COLBY, ENOCH JR PVT A 1 IL US L ART CHICAGO, COOK CO, IL COLBY, ENOCH JR PVT A 1 IL US L ART (NEW) COLBY, GEORGE PVT D 132 IL US INF COLBY, GEORGE PVT E 24 IL US INF ST LOUIS, ST LOUIS CO, MO COLBY, GEORGE PVT F 132 IL US INF COLBY, GEORGE W 1LT F 72 IL US INF CHICAGO, COOK CO, IL COLBY, GEORGE W CPT K 72 IL US INF CHICAGO, COOK CO, IL COLBY, HAMILTON W PVT 9 IL US CAV MARENGO, MCHENRY CO, IL COLBY, HENRY PVT 13 US INF CHICAGO, COOK CO, IL COLBY, HENRY PVT G 44 IL US INF ROCKFORD, WINNEBAGO CO, IL COLBY, HENRY PVT G 51 IL US INF YELLOW HEAD, KANKAKEE CO, IL COLBY, HENRY D JR 1LT SPRINGFIELD (IL) US LT ART SPRINGFIELD, SANGAMON CO, IL COLBY, HENRY M PVT F 151 IL US INF COLBY, JOHN B PVT M 1 IL US L ART MCHENRY, MCHENRY CO, IL COLBY, JOHN C PVT L 8 IL US CAV SCOTT, OGLE CO, IL COLBY, LEWIS R PVT I 112 IL US INF GENESEO, HENRY CO, IL COLBY, SAMUEL B PVT 2 IL US L ART COLBY, SMITH PVT H 16 IL US CAV MCHENRY, MCHENRY CO, IL COLBY, SULLIVAN PVT I 134 IL US INF CHICAGO, COOK CO, IL COLBY, SULLIVAN J CPL H 147 IL US INF CHICAGO, COOK CO, IL COLBY, WILLIAM D PVT F 114 IL US INF PETERSBURG, MENARD CO, IL COLBY, WILLIAM J PVT C 128 IL US INF MARION, WILLIAMSON CO, IL COLBY, WILLIAM J SGM HQ 128 IL US INF MARION, WILLIAMSON CO, IL COLBY, WILLIAM M CPT F 130 IL US INF GREENVILLE, BOND CO, IL Bob Colby ==== COLBY Mailing List ==== Search Colby resources: http://resources.rootsweb.com/surnames/c/o/COLBY - Need to search the Rootsweb List Archives? http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl - To contact the list administrator, use [email protected] - Please don't send ATTACHED FILES to the list! ============================== Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx Alice Colby Volkert Volkert Services