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/Jh.2ADE/1055.2.1.1.2.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I know I have spent the last two days trying to find collaboration too. But to no avail have I found anything to justify Alanson in the 3rd PA calvary. as a 60 yr old man buried in Washington Grove Cem. I was under the impression he was buried in Chapel Hill Cem. I also have checked the prisons for William H. and also have for several years Joseph son of Orrin. According to Sun Rides High he was a prisoner of Anderson Prison. Here is a little tibit I ran across: American Civil War Soldiers Record from Ancestry/com about William H Burright Name: William H Burright , Residence: Fort Dodge, Iowa Enlistment Date: 15 August 1861 Distinguished Service: DISTINGUISHED SERVICE Side Served: Union State Served: Pennsylvania Unit Numbers: 2011 2011 Service Record: Promoted to Full Private Enlisted as a Sergeant on 15 August 1861 at the age of 20 Enlisted in Company A, 11th Cavalry Regiment Pennsylvania on 21 September 1861. POW on 29 January 1864 at Reams' Station, VA Confined on 02 February 1864 at Andersonville, GA Returned on 15 December 1864 Promoted to Full Sergeant on 01 July 1865 Mustered out Company A, 11th Cavalry Regiment Pennsylvania on 13 August 1865 in Manchester, VA another tibit: Source: 11th PA Cav Regimental History Burright, William H. Sergeant Sept. 21, 1861 Prisoner from 36340 - 12/10/64; promoted from Private, 7/1/65; mustered out with company, 8/13/65. a little history ... 1861 The Eleventh Cavalry, originally known as "Harlan’s Light Cavalry," was raised as an independent regiment, during the months of August and September, 1861, by Colonel Josiah Harlan, of Philadelphia, under special authority from the Secretary of War. Under this authority companies were raised in different States, Company A being from Iowa, portions of E and F from New York, a part of I from New Jersey, M from Ohio, and the remainder from Pennsylvania. ect ect joyce