Hi Bev, You might want to order his papers from the National Archives and Record Administration. They have a website which includes instructions on how to order military records. There may be more information there. Good luck! Celia At 5:52 AM -0400 8/6/98, [email protected] wrote: >Celia, > Again, thanks. I would appreciate any help you can give me on Thomas >Rudd, esp the one from Vermont. Trying to find out if he is the one who had a >son Thomas Edward, b. 1849 and if Thomas sr. had a wife named Alice. This >would prove to me I'm on the right path. [email protected] Bev