At 08:06 PM 3/27/00 -0500, you wrote: >Im looking for my Civil War Veterans. They lived in the Alexander, Me area >except for one who may have lived in St. David, New Brunswick, or Princeton, >Maine. From ancestry's American Civil War Database - one of the FREE databases at http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/military/cwrd/main.htm >1- Robert Wallace, 1st regiment of Maine ____ Artillery 1861-1863 (can't >read writing), and the Maine Veterans Volunteers 1864-1865 Robert Wallace Claimed Residence in Milbridge Enlist Date: 10 October 1862 Enlist Place: Enlist Rank: Priv Enlist Age: 44 Served Maine Enlisted C Co. 28th Inf Reg. ME disch disability on 27 December 1862 Source: Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Maine Abbreviation: MERoster Published by Stevens & Sayward on 1861-1866 >2- Reuben Keene, 20th Maine not found; for the 20th Maine they didn't have a list of soldiers, but did have stats -- Name of Regiment: Maine 20th Infantry Regiment Date of Organization: 29 August 1862 Muster Date: 16 July 1865 Regiment Type: Infantry Officers Killed or Mortally Wounded: 9 Officers Died of Disease or Accident: 1 Enlisted Killed or Mortally Wounded: 138 Enlisted Died of Disease or Accident: 145 >3- Joseph Perkins, unknown not found >4- Edward McLaughlin, unknown, but was a POW in south, Prison may have >started with *L*, don't remember with the rest not found >*Why would someone from Downeast Maine fight? because he was American. because he was an abolitionist. From the Civil War Muster Rolls (paid database at ancestry) Union records were taken from microfilm rolls RG94 Box #, Extraction #, and Record # refer to the microfilm copies in the National Archives. 1. Robert Wallace Surname: Wallace Given Name: Robert Middle Initial: Company: Unit: 6 Batt'y, 1 Batt'n Maine L. Art'y. Rank - Induction: Private Rank - Discharge: Private Notes: Keen Reuben Box #: 000543 Extraction #: 0022 Record #: 00000973 Surname: Wallace Given Name: Robert Middle Initial: Company: C Unit: 28 Maine Infantry. (9 Months, 1862-3.) Rank - Induction: Private Rank - Discharge: Private Notes: Box #: 000543 Extraction #: 0022 Record #: 00000974 2. Reuben Keene Surname: Keene Given Name: Reuben Middle Initial: Company: H Unit: 20 Maine Infantry Rank - Induction: Private Rank - Discharge: Private Notes: Keen Reuben Box #: 000543 Extraction #: 0011 Record #: 00003001 (There was also a Reuben P. Keene who served in Company A of the 13th) 3. Joseph Perkins Surname: Perkins Given Name: Joseph Middle Initial: Company: H Unit: 20 Maine Infantry Rank - Induction: Private Rank - Discharge: Private Notes: Box #: 000543 Extraction #: 0016 Record #: 00002323 Surname: Perkins Given Name: Joseph Middle Initial: H. Company: Unit: 7 Maine Infantry Rank - Induction: Private Rank - Discharge: Notes: Box #: 000543 Extraction #: 0016 Record #: 00002324 4. Edward McLaughlin Surname: McGlaughlin Given Name: Edward Middle Initial: K. Company: D Unit: 6 Maine Infantry Rank - Induction: Private Rank - Discharge: Private Notes: McLaughlin, Edwin H. Box #: 000543 Extraction #: 0014 Record #: 00000996 (from 1st database) Edwin H McLaughlin Claimed Residence in N. Brunswick Enlist Date: 19 December 1862 Enlist Place: Enlist Rank: Priv Enlist Age: 22 Served Maine Enlisted D Co. 6th Inf Reg. ME deserted on 02 September 1863 Source: Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Maine