Ms. Hollis and all who have been watching this conversation: First of all I want to apologize if I have said anything that has offended anyone...as that was not my intention. I want to bring your attention to the fact that I wasn't referring to ONLY the Union...both sides had their good guys and bad guys...I'm sure. I am specifically interested in the 2 Tn Mounted Infantry because two of my own ancestors were in that Unit. I, as a descendant, don't want to believe that MY ancestor was a murderer and thief...that is what I'm trying to find out. Whether he was or wasn't really doesn't matter over a hundred years later...I would just like to know the truth of whether he was or was not. My reference to "gangs" was put into quotation marks because that is what I was doing, quoting from the book the "Buggar Saga". Personally, I do agree that you can't believe everything you read especially when it's hearsay and bias. I used the information as reference only. And I fully understand that most of the passionate loyalist to either side considered the other be evil...I was not referring to the average soldier. I was simply pointing out that both sides had their "renegade gangs". The truth is even today, no matter who you are or what political side you're on, what country your from or what religion you are or what ever military service your in if you go around torturing, killing and robbing the common civilian people you are a villain, a murderer and a thief. That is why our own government will not stand for our own soldiers to behave in this way. And if you do this as part of a group of people who also do this type of thing it is called a "gang". I wasn't calling the ALL men in that outfit murders'...because I don't know that...I don't know who all participated in this kind of behavior (the type as described in the aforementioned book). (I would hope that my ancestor refused to be a part of it.) But whether it's Union or Confederate if they behaved in this manner then they deserved the title...no matter who's ancestor's they were. Nena