For those wanting to check out their ancestors in ILLINOIS for the Civil War, you can search through Dogpile (or any other search engine you use) and insert "civil war il" and you should come up with a lot of sources. Here are some to help you. Cathy Babbs ============================================================ http://www.outfitters.com/illinois/history/civil/ http://www.sos.state.il.us/depts/archives/datcivil.html http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcivilw/county/coles.htm http://www.sos.state.il.us/depts/archives/datcivil.html#reghistory http://www.civilwardata.com/pers_dir.html http://www.sos.state.il.us/cgi-bin/civilwar http://www.usgennet.org/~alhnilus/