This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Doherty Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/TCT.2ACEB/439 Message Board Post: My great-great grandfather, Michael Doherty, fought in the Civil War. We have letters he wrote to his wife Honora, so we know that for much of his wartime career, he was assigned to the the Third Army, Fourth US Artillery, Battery K. However, I cannot find his name with the accompanying artillery assignment in the government's roster of Union soldiers, so I suspect that he started out in another section and was transferred into the artillery (one of his letters alluded to anti-Irish bias on the part of his superiors). Michael was an Irish immigrant who lived in New York; family legend says he was killed in Gettysburg, but I can't prove it. He had three daughters: Mary (my great-grandmother), Anne, and Julia, who I know settled in the Albany area and ran a speakeasy during Prohibition. Does this ring any bells with anyone? Thanks