Bill: Thank you for letting us know about the availability of the data on Civil War Soldiers on this web site. However, most of this information has already been available for years in book form. These volumes have been available at my local library, and are grouped by state(s). For example, for several surnames I have a made a copy of the page(s) of the names and units for particular surnames that were of interest to me. Some of the surnames were spelled slightly differently in Civil War records, and so if you go to the web site you may never find some of these alternatives. (I tried entering wildcards at the web site and it did not seem to bring forth these strange alternative spellings.) This multi volume set is undoubtedly a very expensive one, but worth checking out, in addition to the web site. In my humble opinion it is disappointing that the names of the spouses or residences were not entered. When I was at the National Archives there were microfilm indexes of cards of war service that included spouses names and places of birth and residence, which was much more helpful in finding new "old" connections to others with the same surname. It is possible to find where the unit they served that you find from the web site was mustered. But often soldiers went to large cities sometimes at quite a distance to be mustered. Richard