HI: I have to add my voice in praise of the Civil War pension records. My ggrandfather was in the U.S. Colored Troops in Kentucky. I got his pension/military records back in 1991. It included a physical description, the names of his children, the date of his marriage, conducted by a free black minister, and a long description of his illness after he was discharged, by his final slave owner's son, who was a doctor. It advanced my research into the family by 100 percent. KBerry See my Berry/Long/Brown family genealogy Web site: <A HREF="http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/b/e/r/Karin-D-Berry/index.html?Welcome=1046967719">Family Tree Maker's Genealogy Site: User Home Pages: Moses Berry: A Kentucky Soldier's Journey to Freedom</A> Kdberr1@aol.com