Civil War Descendant and Honor-a-Soldier Certificates were recently issued to the following people. For more on this project visit http://www.compu-type.net/rengen/stclair/stcw.htm (Be sure to check for your soldier on the Illinois State Archives website which includes several more St. Clair county soldiers than shown on the SCCGS site - scroll down to the Database of Illinois Veterans links on this page http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archives/databases.html ) You may have to cut and paste the links Soldier Louis Schoellkopf - 149th Illinois Vols, Infantry, great grandfather of Ruth Grandcolas. Descendant certificate Soldier George A Basler - Company K,22nd Regiment, Illinois Vols, great-great-great-uncle of Stephen W. Reiss. Honor-a-Soldier certificate. Translated, typed copy of the soldier's journal dated 1862 submitted as part of the portfolio. Soldier Benjamin Friedlander - 7th Regiment, Missouri Vols., Collateral Descendant certficate to Margaret Renner Berkel, great-granddaughter of Ida Friedlander Reichert, the soldier's sister. Soldier James L. Dunlap, 117th Regiment, Company H, Illinois Vols., Infantry, great-grandfather of James G. Dunlap. Descendant certificate. Soldier William Wolter, Company A, 9th Regiment, Illinois Vols. - Collateral Descendant certificate to Ronald Kolb, great-great-grandson of Albert Wolter, the soldier's brother. Soldier John Earhardt Meinhardt, Company C, 9th Regiment, Illinois - Honor-a-Soldier certificate to Allyson Monroe Tilton. Soldier Denis Maurath, Company B, Fremont's Body Guard, Missouri - Descendant certificate to John Louis Maurath, great-grandson of Louis Maurath, the soldier's brother.