Hi Mike, Charles L. Chiniquy was in the 3rd Calvalry, company D and Keogh Post # 64 along with Custer. He was also a member of the Knights of Pythias. Charles L. probably moved from Nebraska to Deadwood between 1874 and 1880. There are some old newspaper articles online. The Deadwood Historical Newspapers Index is an index of the various newspapers published in and around Deadwood, South Dakota during the 1870's and 1880's. This index is being developed by the Deadwood Public Library. <A HREF="http://dwdlib.sdln.net/newspaper_index.htm"> http://dwdlib.sdln.net/newspaper_index.htm</A> These old articles were a huge help for me. I got so much information from just the little that was there. Isn't it wonderful that here we are, all helping each other and our relatives were probably doing the same back in the 1800's. I just love genealogy. Carol Anne In a message dated 6/26/03 11:27:45 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > Hi Carol Anne, > > Your Chiniquy seems to have been in the same places at the same time as my > Julien Giroux, who came to St. Anne in 1851/2 and fought in the Civil War as > Joe Gero in Company F of the 76th Regiment of the Illinois Infantry, who was > in Dakota County NE in the 1880 census, but was in Douglas Country (Armour) > SD by 1900 and Pennington County SD (Rockerville, just outside Rapid City) > from 1911 until his death in 1917. The similarities are quite striking and > leads to the reasonable speculation that they knew each other. > > Btw, Deadwood was the major city in that part of South Dakota at the time. > Rapid City didn't amount to much until quite later. > > Also, I found quite a bit of good information on my Civil War relatives from > the War Department. They apparently didn't know how to fill out the > paperwork to get Civil War pensions earlier (as their lawyer explained, they > "were Frenchmen", apparently an acceptable explanation for ignorance), but > filed under the Act of May 11, 1912 and gave quite a bit of historical > information as to their travels and activities since 1865. > > Mike > >