My friends - Our good friend Betty Ravenholt has given me permission to post the following material from a message she had sent to me about other useful National Archives records which she has used. Thanks to Betty for this additional information about these other groups. -B ====================================================== Betty Ravenholt wrote: >Collection M918 is a list of Confederate soldiers, sailors, and citizens who >died in Federal prisons or hospitals. The names are arranged by >prison/hospital site. I found two family members who died at Rock Island, >Illinois. Name, rank, date of death, confederate unit, and grave number >were listed for each. > >Collection 836 is the collection of reports written by Confederate officers >to their superiors after each battle. What is given seems to vary from >reporting officer to officer, but most describe their unit's action and list >the names of those wounded, killed, or missing. I wasn't so fortunate >here. >The commander of the relevant company at Perryville just said "See the >surgeon's report for those wounded" or something to that effect. In any >event, it was fascinating to read the description of the action in which the >unit had been involved. I plan to go back to this collection better armed >with preliminary information so that I can make better use of it next time. > ======================================================