Where did your Joseph live, or where did he enlist? I just looked in IL - there were 7, all pvt's. Betty FL Reading other's query regarding Civil War rank of ancestor. My Joseph Keller immigrated from Switzerland via Germany, I believe. He show up in Memphis, TN in 1845 at 25 years of age. I know there was one other man by that name in Memphis at that same time, but rosters for Confederate Civil War soldiers shows 6 men by that name. Most were shown as Private, but one is shown as a Captain. Since my Joseph Keller was educated, and since he came from Switzerland where all young men had to go through military training, do you think he might have been a captain? I sent for one of the records for a private and got no information to speak of - no age, no dates of enlistment etc. - just that he was sick. Could these six men actually be only one or two that were moved from one regiment to another as the war progressed and units were decimated? Also, my Joseph Keller died in 1864, but I cannot find any record of that in Tennessee. Any suggestions?