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/RgB.2ACE/263.2.1.1.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: If he lived in Alabama, you can go to the Alabama state archives website. They have a search you can do on the website by his name. It will tell you what information they have on him. It told me that Abner Thomas Hartsill did not file for pension but he is listed in a Census taken in Alabama for serviving confederate solders. All of this just from there website. Very good service.