On 10/18/03 (8:44:02 AM MDT), Bill Chamberlain ([email protected]) wrote, "The Genealogy Workshop of the Huntington Historical Society, Huntington, L.I., will meet Wednesday, 22 October 2003 in the barn at the Conklin House, 7:00 pm refreshments, 7:30 pm lecture. James E. Haas, author of the book "The Gunner at His Peace", will discuss the methods he used in researching the records of Civil War soldiers and sailors from College Point, NY." For those that might not know where is "College Point, NY", currently it is a neighborhood in the north-central part of the Borough/County of Queens in NYC. For a neighborhood map of Queens: http://www.queenslibrary.org/gallery/past_exhibits/burgh/map.htm Circa Civil War times, College Point was a hamlet (unincorporated area) in the Town of Flushing in Queens County. Queens County was then 4 times as large as it is now, including all of Nassau County (seceded in 1899) and a small part of Suffolk County (Lloyd Neck peninsula in the Town of Oyster Bay was transferred to the Town of Huntington, Suffolk County in 1886). >From 1867 to 1898, College Point was a village (municipal corporation) in the Town of Flushing in Queens County. I hope this information is useful or, at least, interesting. Walter Greenspan