Hi: I found the Lieut HInd - last name below - while searching at the Library of Congress - American Memory section. Regards, Nan [email protected] ------------------------------- Found while using: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/mdbquery.html Journals of the Congress of the Confederate States of America, 1861-1865 FRIDAY, September 26, 1862. Sir: I have the honor to recommend the following nominations for appointment in the Provisional Army of the Confederate States of America: ARTILLERY--UNDER ACT NO. 85, APRIL 21, 1862. Captains. T. M. Bowyer, Louisiana; James Harding, Missouri; George W. Christy, Louisiana; Lawrence S. Marye, Virginia; Thomas H. Price, Virginia; Henry Myers, Alabama; J. W. Mallett, Alabama; W. Clark Kennerly, Missouri; A. W. Lawrence, North Carolina; C. P. Bolles, North Carolina; A. G. Brenizer, Missouri; Edward B. Smith, Virginia; F. W. Blount, South Carolina; T. R. Hotchkiss, Mississippi; J. T. Trezevant, Mississippi; P. B. Stanard, Virginia; C. C. McPhail, Virginia; George West, Louisiana; L. C. Leftwich, Virginia; Edward N. Thurston, Georgia; S. C. Faulkner, Missouri; John Esten Cooke, Virginia. First lieutenants. George W. Kerr, Virginia; James Pleasants, Virginia; William M. Archer, Virginia; Paul Hamilton, South Carolina; W. C. Duxbury, Alabama; James M. Garnett, Virginia; W. L. Randolph, Virginia; John T. Buck, Kentucky; T. D. Eason, South Carolina; Matthew P. Taylor, North Carolina; F. Lewis Marshall, Virginia; R. M. Cary, North Carolina; William H. Portlock, Tennessee; J. G. Reynolds, Georgia; A. Austin Smith, Virginia; John H. Chamberlayne, Virginia; George Duffy, Virginia; S. Schooler, Virginia; P. M. McClung, Tennessee; Thaddeus A. Smith, Alabama; Edward Barbour, Virginia; W. W. Elliott, South Carolina; James McHenry, jr., Virginia; Thomas J. Moore, Kentucky; Louis Zimmer, Virginia; Maxey G. Hughes, Maryland; Frank F. Jones, Maryland; J. McHenry Howard, Maryland; James Ker, Virginia; Henry Robinson, Virginia; David B. Dunbar, Virginia; W. F. Johnson, Georgia; Thomas Nash, jr., Virginia; Samuel O. Crooks, Kentucky; A. T. Cunningham, Georgia; T. Henderson Smith, Virginia; W. Gordon McCabe, Maryland; L. F. Terrell, Virginia; John B. Frazer, South Carolina; H. E. Barnes, Mississippi; N. Custis Washington, Missouri; Gustave A. Huwald, Tennessee; William D. Harden, Georgia; George F. Reed, Louisiana; Alfred Edwards, Kentucky; W. L. Allen, Mississippi; T. E. Buckman, Florida; S. Turner Sykes, Alabama; Lawson L. Duncan, Kentucky; William A. Wright, Georgia; George Lemmon, Maryland; W. S. Symington, Virginia; P. D. Hunter, Tennessee; Charles Selden, Virginia; S. S. Kirkland, North Carolina; William E. Foster, Virginia; THOMAS HINDS, Mississippi. I am, sir, respectfully, your obedient servant, GEO. W. RANDOLPH, Secretary of War. To His Excellency Jefferson Davis, President, etc.