At 12:40 AM 9/19/99 PDT, you wrote: >Wondering if anyone out there knows abt any battles in AR during the civil >war, on or around March 14th 1865? Two if my ancestors (whom were brothers) >dies on this day and al it states as place is Civil War AR. I think the Battle of Pea Ridge/Prairie Grove was in March of 1862....but some of that land did kind of go back and forth several times between CSA and USA. It is the date of March 1865....the war was almost over. By that time, I would think your ancestors died either fighting Union men or bushwackers - bushwackers killed anyone they met regardless of uniform color. If your ancestors were CSA, and you think they might have run afoul of a Union patrol....those records are available. Each patrol wrote a report and those you can still see. The Union had no trouble saving its records... What area are we talking about anyway? Where did they come from I guess is what I am asking, and were they USA or CSA? If USA, then as I said, there were pretty good records kept. Things were in such a mess in NW Arkansas, southern MO, etc by 1865. Remember every school, church, store, bridge, ferry had been destroyed. Many men going home died along the way - either from disease or some lawless gang, etc set upon them. Give me all the info you have as far as where they were from, name, etc. Mary