> My one Stewart lived in New Jersey but > join a volunteer group in Pennsylvania to fight in the Civil War. > Which I have not been able to explain yet. Why didn't he just join a > volunteer group in N.J. ? Any number of reasons you'll probably never know: among others, he might have been over there visiting a buddy and they decided to volunteer together; or maybe he ran away from home because his mother didn't want him to fight... One of my ancestors from NYC ended up enlisting in a little town outside Chicago and both those ideas have occurred to me. Or maybe he didn't like the guy who would have been his commanding officer. Mary Mary Kyritsis Kifissia, Greece