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/EhB.2ACE/1049.2.1.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Rhonda, With many sons and husbands in the service of the Confedracy, the wives and mothers had a hard time. Some of them required help from the county governments. "Confederate Indigent Lists" or censuses were kept by a number of counties. I'm not sure of the date of these lists, probably about 1863. I have a relative listed here as serving in State Troops. In another document, he says that he "joined a regiment of state troops which was made up in Burleson County. We were in Moran's Batalion." He gives as a date, August 1863. Later, he writes, "I was elected County Commissioner. I had charge of collecting tithes for the widows and orphans until after the war." I hope this helps. If I get the chance to go back to Caldwell soon, I'll try to get a date on this list. Good luck, Bobby