This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: FLACK, STEVENSON, HANNA, RUCKMAN, BECK, BEDWELL, MITCHELL Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Ci.2ADE/4552.2.1.1 Message Board Post: Nina, Indeed, every little bit does help. One thing I have learned in doing research for veterans, especially Civil War veterans, is that most of the men who were not claimed by their families and brought home, are buried in A National Veterans Memorial Cemetery in the State where they were killed or died. The State Archives from which a veteran served will have that information as to his place of burial. For a minimal fee they will research that for you. As an example, my Nicholis Jackson Beck died of complications from a forearm wound and amputation. He was wounded at The Battle of Jackson, Mississippi. He was buried on the Messenger Plantation and reinterred later at the Vicksburg National Memorial Veterans Cemetery in vicksburg, Mississippi. Ruth