The only expert that I know is Dale Talkington. He produces geneology type collections on cemeteries, dead soldiers, newspaper obits and things like that for public libraries. His website is "The Electric Cemetery"<http://www.ionet.net/~cousin/> He recommends these books for a civil war library: Talkington,N.Dale, The Long Blue Line:Civil War Union Soldiers and Sailors Buried in Oklahoma, a 754 page bookfilled with his collection of data on more than 8600 Civil War Union soldiers and sailors whose final resting is in OK. Reamy, Martha & William, Index to the Roll of Honor, Baltimore,MD: Geneological Publishing Co.,Inc.,1995 Quartermasters General's Office. rollof Honor, Names of Soldiers Buried in National Cemeteries. Baltimore, MD, Geneological Publishing Co.,Inc.,1995(10 volumns). War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the OFFICIAL RECORDS of the Union and Confederate Times Armies. Washington ,DC: Government Printing Office, 1880. Reprinted in 1985 by Historical Times, Inc. and Distrubuted by Broadfoot Publishing Co.( 64 of 128 volumes ...more to come). Dyer,Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. Dayton, OH: Morningside Press, 1994(2 volumes). Mosocco,Ronald A. THe Cronological Tracking of the American Civil War, per the Official Records of the War of the Rebellion. Williamsonburg,VA: James River Publications, 1995. White, Virgil D. Index to Revolutionary War Service Records. Waynesboro, TN: The Nationalal Historical Publishing Co.,1987 White, Virgil D. Index to Indian Wars Pension Files, 1892.-1926. Waynesboro, TN: the National Historical Publishing Co.,1987 White, Virgil D. Index to Mexican War Pension Files. Waynesboro, TN: The National Historical Publishing Co., 1989. White, Virgil D. Index to Old Wars Pension Files, 1815-1926. Waynesboro,TN: The National Historical Publishing Co.,1993. this may be the book that was written by a person from IL The History of Appanoose County, Iowa, a Biographical Directory of Citizens, War Records,War Records of its Volunteers in the late Rebellion,etc. Chicago, IL: Western HIstorical Co.,1878. Reprinted in 1989 by Appanoose County Genealogy Society, Centerville, IA (to be continued when I get a scanner.) Glenda Lockett Ramsey