--part1_9a.547c3bb.265eb235_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Just thought I would add my two cents to this discussion of Civil War veterans. I agree with Sharon that you get a lot more information if your relative received a pension. But be advised that from my own experience if you send to the National Archives you will wait several months for a reply. I guess they must be busy with requests. Your better off getting someone into genealogy that does lookup's for a fee and goes to the National Archives and does there own research. They know for instance which units came from what states etc. My grandfather was a civil war veteran and I gave them his unit his rank and where he was from. They sent back there was no record. He joined the army from Philadelphia I did not know this as I always thought he joined from New Jersey which was where he lived most of his life. The person I had check at the national Archives came back with 60 some pages of information about my grandfathers army record his pension papers etc. If you or anyone else is interested contact me and I will give you the name of the person I used. Or contact any one of your choosing that does this type of work. There is of course a fee but I thought it to be vary reasonable.and well worth the cost. This should not be construed as a solicitation for anyone's business just the benefit of my own experience. Bob Hamilton, NJ --part1_9a.547c3bb.265eb235_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-path: <MrcrvlBob@aol.com> From: MrcrvlBob@aol.com Full-name: Mrcrvl Bob Message-ID: <7c.5f2cfc2.265d789b@aol.com> Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 14:25:31 EDT Subject: Re: Frederick THORNLEY- A civil war soldier? Muster Rolls? To: Thistledew@BelleMeadInternet.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 104 Just thought I would add my two cents to this discussion of Civil War veterans. I agree with Sharon that you get a lot more information if your relative received a pension. But be advised that from my own experience if you send to the National Archives you will wait several months for a reply. I guess they must be busy with requests. Your better off getting someone into genealogy that does lookup's for a fee and goes to the National Archives and does there own research. They know for instance which units came from what states etc. My grandfather was a civil war veteran and I gave them his unit his rank and where he was from. They sent back there was no record. He joined the army from Philadelphia I did not know this as I always thought he joined from New Jersey which was where he lived most of his life. The person I had check at the national Archives came back with 60 some pages of information about my grandfathers army record his pension papers etc. If you or anyone else is interested contact me and I will give you the name of the person I used. Or contact any one of your choosing that does this type of work. There is of course a fee but I