This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/IFB.2ACE/1050.1 Message Board Post: Joseph Bertrand is the son of Gideon Bertrand and Denise Russon. Do you have further information regarding this family?? [I am descended from Joseph's brother Moses.] In answer to your question. Batraw, Joseph Union Infantry 98th Regiment, New York Infantry -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/soldiers.htm This is the way the index has Joseph listed. The site might give you the information you need to order his records. I was trying to remember how much the state of New York Civil War records cost. About $6. They have different information than the national archives. The pension file from the national archives will have the most information. Because of the age of the children at the time of Joseph's death Matilda will have submitted proof of their birth. You will want to tell them to send everything in the file. That way you get to decide what is important.