This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2hB.2ACI/134.1 Message Board Post: Peg White Sulfsted gave you very good information. Luckily, Grizzle and Hardbarger are not a common names. Dallas Texas is in Dallas Co., In looking at this in usgenweb the National Archives are in Fort Worth Texas, and the Dallas Public Library, both claim to have federal records. What you need to look for is: Military Records - Confederate Pensions Confederates did not receive Pensions until 1890s. Then they received a pension from the state they resided. Grizzle Widow if still alive probably applied for a pension from Texas. You need the soldier's information at least the name, and unit would be good. There will be an index with soldiers names with their units, and the pension number#. With this information you can send for a copy of the pension file. I would try to go to the web sites of the Archives or public library. Some times researchers are listed. They might charge a fee, but it is much cheaper than traveling there. The information in the pension files are very good and can be a goldmine of genealogy information. Many widows will even try to claim their grandchildren as dependents. Also the archives or library websites may have a form for you to send in with the fee, and the pension #. Good luck. Sincerely, Barbara Long

A good place to start looking for your soldier's unit, as you may know, is on the Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System database online. http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/ Try all permutatations and any and all variant spellings: surname only, first name only (especially if unusual), include the state, exclude the state, include which army, exclude it, etc. I've often found it helpful to click on the units when they show up next to the soldier, too, to discover whether or not the unit might have come from the area I'm researching. That's often helped me "sift down." Good luck! __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover