Hi Mark, Sounds like a great project. I have a great-great-g-grand uncle or something of that sort named Mathias Heltsley who volunteered for the Union army at age 57 and was to fight in the Shiloh battle, but became ill the weekend before the conflict and died April 4, 1862 in Savannah, Hardin County, Tenn. He's buried in Shiloh Cemetery our family historians tell us. He was born in Tenn. in 1805 but lived in Todd County, Ky. most of his life. Presumably, Mathias volunteered for the bonus. He had two wives, eight children by one and three by another. If any of this interests anyone let me know. Mark, you're not the same Mark Turner from Tenn., but who worked for newspapers in Tucson and Homer, Alaska, are you? Good luck. Ernie Heltsley