This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Pokett, Poquette Classification: Lookup Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/3571.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Susan: These notes seem to have been taken from Ezra's soldier files in the National Archives in Washington, D. C. (My notes are so old that I don't remember where they came from, but I believe I took them about 40 or 45 years ago while spending time in the nation's capitol one summer.)....If his parents were separated, there must have been some kind of a note to that effect in his files. I TRY not to make a note on something that is not contained in the source of my information. And since I have "4th Battery Iowa, Copmpany "F", 5th Missouri S. M. Cavalry" after his name, that would have been the way I have of reminding myself what I asked for when I obtained these records. Sorry, but I can't be more definite on this...Perhaps you would want to try to retrace my steps and contact the National Archives?--W.F.