And I forgot to ask you if you have been to the Pennsylvania Portal and all their Civil War Records ? Eliz Not Today and Not without a Fight (Anon) For all that has been, thanks. For all that will be, yes. (Dag Hammarskjold) On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 6:36 PM, dianna charles <diamonddi57@optusnet.com.au> wrote: > HI Eliz > Thanks for that!! Looks like another lot of research on old Henry, just trying to verify (clarify) the statements made. I may try and research (may need to find information at NARA) re the guy who hired Henry, this John Walton used Henry as a substitute. Very interesting and as usual if I can find more scraps of information on Henry I’m happy. LOL. Regards Dianna > > -----Original Message----- > From: Eliz Hanebury > Sent: Friday, August 25, 2017 8:22 AM > To: ROOTS@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] Civil War Draft record > > You can occupy your self with > http://www.pacivilwar.com/ > > Pennsylvania Civil War Soldiers - Free PA genealogy. > > www.pacivilwar.com/ > > Use this free Pennsylvania database to help with your genealogy > search. ... as an index to Samuel P. Bates' History of Pennsylvania > Volunteers, 1861-1865 . ... Pennsylvania Civil War draft and > substitute lists for various PA counties. ... Lists the veteran's name > or widow's name, rank, year ofenlistment, and year of discharge. > > Then I googled for the Substitute list and got lots of mentions but > none to Ancestry for That db > > And then there is Dr Gates post which talks of substitute lists > http://www.theroot.com/tracing-your-roots-was-my-civil-war-vet-ancestor-an-ov-1793131471 > and since it is Dr Gates there are links to lots of records of Black soldiers. > It contains links to > U.S., Colored Troops Military Service Records, 1863-1865 at Ancestry > is http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1107 > Eliz > Not Today and Not without a Fight > ( > ===== > If you would prefer digest mode to mail mode, drop a note to roots-admin@rootsweb.com and ask for the digest... > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message