This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Wg.2ADE/3788.1 Message Board Post: Just ran across your message while doing some research on the Soldiers & Sailors home in Quincy. Illinois has an on line database of all Illinois Civil War veterans. There is no Thomas Coates or T. Coates or B. Coates listed in it. <http://cyberdriveillinois.com/cgi-bin/archives> should get you to it if you would like to search name variations or for other relatives. I'm not sure if other states have similar information on line or not.