Bill, do you have William Ferrell & James Ferrell of Lancaster County listed? Thanks, Steve Ferrell -----Original Message----- From: Bil Brasington <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Friday, February 19, 1999 12:13 PM Subject: [SCLANCAS-L] South Carolina CSA Soldiers >I have the recently published (1998) Roster of Confederate Units, South >Carolina Volume. I am willing to help in your research by doing a >lookup. This book is a listing of National Archive Records and contains >name, unit, and company. It has nothing about where he or when he >served. > >There is no source of all the troops from SC who served. Some of the >State Troop units (especially those raised in the last year of the war) >are all but lost to history. My great grandfather is not here but is on >the muste of a Company of 16 year olds from Lancaster/Kershaw County. >Also, SC was a rabid secessopnist state and many men crossed into North >Carolina and Georgia to join there, where a bounty was needed to fill >their needs. These men ARE NOT in this book. There are men who were >born outside of SC and who joined a SC unit who will be here. > >Having learned my lesson with my Swamp Fox offer, I will respond to only >those who provide a surname and a given name or initials. I will ignore >surname requests only. I just don't have that much time available. I >will look for close hits but will no look at every possible spellings. >I will also include anyone else of In my surname alone, I have 4 >different spellings, all 1st cousins. > >Remeber, this is an index. No dates, no places, just name, unit, and >rank. It will give you enough information to request a compiled service >record from the Naional Archives. > >______________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > >