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/SFB.2ACI/4208 Message Board Post: Vivian, your great-grandfather is listed in a book entitled MARYLANDERS IN THE CONFEDERACY by Daniel D. Hartzler, published by Family Line Publications, Westminster, Maryland. On page 142 it states: EWING, William J.; pvt; lst MD Cav, Co D; ref: 1, 2, 19, 21, 1601. The following is a list of sources of Marylanders who served with the numbers corresponding to the numbers given above following the "ref:". 1 - National Archives Military Records, Washington, D. C. 2 - GOLDSBOROUGH, W. W. The Maryland Line in the Confederate Army. Baltimore: Guggenheimer, Weil and Company, 1900 19 - Newman, Harry Wright, comp. Maryland Soldiers, Sailors and Marines Who Served in the Confederate States of America. Unpublished. In the private collection of the compiler (deceased). 21 - BOOTH, George W. Society of the C.S.A. Army and Navy of Maryland. Illustrated Souvenir - Maryland Line Confederate Soldiers Home. 1894. 1601 - Capt. Warner G. Welsh, lst Md Cav Co. D - Heirlooms of the War for Southern Independence. Collection of Mrs. Oscar Joy, Libertytown, MD.