At 02:06 PM 9/19/99 -0500, you wrote: >Joy here, I found the little book Battle Of Pea Ridge, March 7 & 8, 1862 >There is a list of Confederate Soldiers taken from Pension records, also the >Roster of Stand Watie's Cherokee Brigade. I doubt the lists are complete >but if you're looking for a particular person I'll see if he is listed. -j- Is that the battle where some of the Indians on the Union side scalped some of their victims? At some battle, Union Indians did that and it caused a big scandal at the time - especially in the southern newspapers. Native Americans fought on both sides, USA and CSA. But my ancestor many years later in his pension papers was talking about being in the 10th AR at Ft Scott, Kansas - where he was captured. He was still very upset that the Union had used Indians in the line, also Black troops. For some reason he sounded like that was adding insult to injury.... Speaking of Black Troops, another big scandal in the Northern papers of the time was Ft Pillow, where Nathan Bedford Forrest killed all the Black Troops who had surrendered. so it seems even in that bloody war, there were some things that happened which people thought were going beyond normal warfare. Mary