A Va Tech Master's thesis by Paul Randolph Dotson, Jr. has a lot of information about Floyd County during the Civil War: http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-4019122049721391/ My brother ran across this while searching for information about the 54th Va. Many Floyd County names are mentioned in Chapter 2. Paula Kelley Ward San Antonio, Texas chachalady@sbcglobal.net "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." ~ Douglas Adams