Hello Melissa, I have NARA's Form 85 in front of me. NATIONAL ARCHIVES ORDER FOR COPIES OF FEDERAL PENSION OR BOUNTY LAND WARRANT APPLICATIONS Full Pension Application File ($37) Pension application files generally are the most useful to those doing genealogical research and contain the most complete information regarding a soldier's career. Pension application files, based on Federal service before WWI usually include an official statement of the veteran's military service, as well as information of a personal nature. This does not include Confederate states until 1959. If your veteran's service was was during the Revolutionary War, bounty-land warrant applications have been consolidated with pension application papers. Pension Documents Packet ($14.75) The pension documents packet will contain, to the extent that these documents are present in the file, 8 documents that contain genealogical information about the pension applicant. Not all of these documents will be found in every file. The package will include any of the following items that are in the file: (1) declaration of pension, (2) declaration of widow's pension, (3 ) Adjutant General statements of service, (4) questionaires completed by the applicants (numbered forms), (5) "Pension Dropped" cards, (6) marriage certificates, (7) death certificates, (8) discharge certificates. http://www.archives.gov/research_room/obtain_copies/veterans_service_records.html#nara http://www.archives.gov/research_room/obtain_copies/military_and_genealogy_order_forms.html#bymail That's it in a nutshell. If you give then a CC#, they will mail the records immediately. If you request to be billed and pay by check, they will hold the records for 45 days. I just sent in my 1st order about 3 weeks ago, (they say it may take up to 120 days for full pension files), and I am getting antsy. Since they all take an average of 60 to 90 days, I didn't want to resubmitt another request, doubling the time, so I went for the Full Pension on the records of my WWI grandfather Best of Luck, Debra Rookard CCM Native and GenExchange County Coordinator, City of Williamsburg http://www.genexchange.org/county.cfm?State=va&County=williamsburg