>I have an obituary of a Francis Suttan Livingston, in which it states that he >was a staff captain to General Grant in the US Civil War. Can anyone >recommend any websites where I might be able to check up on this I can't suggest a website, but they have these places called "libraries". You might be able to find in a university library in the UK a series of books called, for short, "The Official Records" or "OR". They are the US Gov't "Official Records of the War of the Rebellion", a collection of reproductions of messages and orders sent during the Civil War. There is an overall reference volume or volumes which simply give a citation to a particular numbered volume. In the numbered volume there is an index with page citations. As I recall there are about 120 or so volumes. Regards, Clifford Sayre in Silver Spring, MD

At 11:54 AM 1/29/2002 +0000, Clifford Sayre <cliffsayr@aol.com> wrote in response to a query by Graeme Wall <Graeme@greywall.demon.co.uk>: >...I can't suggest a website, but they have these places called "libraries". You might be able to find in a university library in the UK a series of books called, for short, "The Official Records" or "OR". They are the US Gov't "Official Records of the War of the Rebellion", a collection of reproductions of messages and orders sent during the Civil War. There is an overall reference volume or volumes which simply give a citation to a particular numbered volume. In the numbered volume there is an index with page citations. As I recall there are about 120 or so volumes.... The full title of the huge collection that Clifford mentioned is: "The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies". Incredibly (at least to me) the entire set, including the index, is now available on the web as part of the "Making of America" project" <http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/browse.monographs/waro.html>. Obviously, with a work of this size, the web site is a bit unwieldy--but it looks to me as though it is all there for the hunting. Rollie