Hi all well, this has really been a very productive four days. Not so much as to what I have added to my urgently desired mother's paternal data but in that I started with a brief mention of an individual, and now have him linked to the RUGGLES ancestry, have his family and personal vitals, know where he is resting, have written accounts by his commanding officer(s) of his personal conduct, and have a copy of the last letter he wrote to his father in Oct before his death in Dec. I now have some more general ???ions that will be of interest to others as well: Col. Henry H. Baker wrote "Battle of Fredricksburg" pub in New Orleans in 1911. In it he describes the death of Francis RUGGLES. Does anyone have this text?? There was a periodical "the Confederate Veteran" which was pub in Tenn for scores of years which has articles of great personal interest to descendents of the Confederate cause. most larger research libraries seem to have a set. Is there a like periodical for the Union cause?? Surely there must be. Perhaps one is related to the GAR?? I did take some time and copied the RUGGLES participants from the Confederacy and also from some of the other states, mostly New England. I will be gradually posting them to the RUGGLES list. I hope that yall can help connect them to our growing ancestral tree. (for you PERKINS searchers out there, good luck. There are so many PERKINS listed for both sides that it would take a week to get them all transcribed.) Good night Bill