This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: duffey Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JMB.2ACE/724.2.1.2.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: We spoke on the phone once. Patrick's obituary said he was a Confederate soldier and I was able to verify that by looking it up in a multivolume set of books that listed Confederate soldiers.