Here's a great Civil War Book.....not only the story, but the bibliography is the best I've seen. You'll find so many resources to check for your own ancestors! ww.mangham.org. The book's title is: "Oh, For a Touch of the Vanished Hand": Discovering a Southern Family and the Civil War. Here's a review of it...and I agree with everything he said about this book!! (Source: Smoky Mountain Books, http://www.smokymountainmarketplace.com/ctshop/index.html?catalog6_1.html) Civil War Oh, For a Touch of the Vanished Hand Many of us have gotten wrapped up in the search for a Civil War ancestor, looking for the paths he walked, the people he met, the sights he saw. Some of us have done a pretty comprehensive search, enough to perhaps write a book about, if only we could find a publisher for a study of such narrow scope. But Dana Mangham the author of this colossal family history, has done almost every one of us one better. This is a mammoth book, eight hundred pages of not-very-big print, and it is a tremendous lesson in how much we can learn about our ancestors in the Civil War if only we are willing to dig through the dust mite infected archives of materials that surround us all. Dana Mangham is well qualified to research and tell such a tale. A history instructor at West Point, he comes to the task with a lifetime of training in things military and in the methods of an historian. What he has produced is not the story of one man in the army, but of an entire generation of his family who fought for the Confederacy~ for the most part from their native Georgia. He was lucky to find in his quest a vast body of research done by earlier generations, but as with all professionals with genuine skill, much of that good luck was homemade. As he says in his introduction, he seeks, with admirable success, to combine the disciplines of genealogy and history in ways that the strengths of each will compliment each other, and to a great degree he succeeds. The story begins with the marriage of John Mangham and Frances Bennett in Virginia in 1694 It carries to the Civil War, where it ties together the experiences of over two dozen regiments, as various members of the Mangham clan fight on fields that range from Gettysburg to Pleasant Hill. If you have ever wondered how much you might be able to discover about your own forebears of the nineteenth century, there is no better example than this book of how much one person can discover. Virginia Crilley