This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: KINKEAD, WILLIS, SCOTT, MITCHELL, DOUGLASS, PUDERBAUGH, MELVILLE, BEARDSLEY, GILLESPIE, BECKER Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/WdB.2ACI/3369.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Mary- OK. Try this page of instructions instead. What you want from the National Archives is the serviceman's COMPILED MILITARY SERVICE RECORD. It will cost you $17 and take 4-6 weeks to get. If they can't find it, they will refund your money. This packet of documents is where the most valuable genealogical information on veterans resides, especially if there was a widow (which was not the case with my own 1812 veteran ggggf whose wife predeceased him). If THIS page confuses you, get someone to help you. Dick Kinkead