This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/WEB.2ACI/182.2.3.1.1 Message Board Post: Thank you for the prompt reply. I have done some research on a little known aspect of his Civil War career and have been hoping to find new information. While at home on detached service from his regiment in Virginia, Keary tried to raise a battalion of sharpshooters to take back with him. This effort only partially succeeded. He recruited some men but was unable to get the battalion organized and to Virginia.