Check out the website: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcivilw/ it may have some information for you. I also have a Virginia-born person who served from Hancock Co,IL . I sent for his pension papers and found quite a lot of information. Good luck Terrie Reichling jlreichling@home.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vincent Summers" <vsummers@nrao.edu> To: <ILHANCOC-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2000 9:01 PM Subject: [ILHANCOC] Samuel Spitler DAVIS > This young man, Samuel Spitler DAVIS, was killed in the famous Battle > of Jonesboro, Georgia. September 1, 1864, when he was born in 1841. > He was born in Virginia, but was in Carthage, Hancock County, > Illinois, when he was mustered. > > I have photographs of his stone. They read: Company D 78 Illinois > Infantry (from abbreviations). > > Can anyone tell me if he ever married and had children before his death? > > Do you know anything of him, or of this portion of the military? > > Thanks for your consideration, > Vincent Edward Summers >