My thanks to Betty for pointing out the informative subject website. I have identified a couple of actual, and a number of potential, ancestral relatives who served. Can anyone confirm that the "Flying Camp (McDowell's) VA Militia," was a part of the "5th Reg't (McDowell's) VA Militia? Would a "flying camp" be a quick-reaction cavalry / light artillery type of unit? Frank Nofsinger <frankenoff@snet.com>