This information was provided by a kind soul on a newsgroup I sub to: I have "freely" borrowed from his message and edited..... Are you missing a Civil War-era ancestor from Tennessee,Ohio,Indiana,Kentucky,and other states? Keep in mind some men went across to bordering states to sign up. So I would check if my ancestor was also from Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, etc. That ancestor may have been aboard the steamship Sultana when it exploded and sank 9 miles north of Memphis, TN on 27 April 1865. Nearly 1,500 of the 2,300 aboard ultimately died. Now you can search a *FREE* database of 2,090 known passengers of the Sultana, most of whom were paroled Union soldiers from the states of OH, TN, IN, MI, KY and WVa who had formerly been imprisoned at either Andersonville (Georgia) or Cahaha (Alabama). The database also lists the names of every known crewman and civilian passenger! (c100 additional names!) Who were not Union affiliates. http://www.rapidnet.com/~greg/Sultana/Sultana.html