Deborah: Mr. Tarter's helpful comments on burned counties are both useful and appreciated. Thanks for posting them. However, just for the sake of leaving no nit unpicked..."loss" should not be his operative word; "destruction by Federal mongrels invading the South" (who also saw fit to push over and destroy headstones to cook on in my family cemetery in PG county) would seem more honestly descriptive. Thanks, John M. Poythress