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/AkB.2ACE/206.243.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Thanks Thomas. It is probably the right John Powell. My grandmother thought he was born about 1827 but as she was born in 1900, I don't know how she could have remembered if she had known. I will need to recheck the census paper for 19=869. For your paper, my ancestor Charles A. Hancock I believe was a cook in the regt. but it is probably already listed that way.