FYI. At last, the 'Official Records' of the Civil War - "War of the Rebellion; Records of the Union and Confederate Armies" (US Govt., 1909 etc.) - are now free and on line, much thanks to Cornell Univ. A truly superb set for your CW searches. http://moa.cit.cornell.edu/moa/browse.monographs/waro.html Notice too that the complete 1880 census is now on LDS, and it too is free, NO thanks to any of the genealogy for cash sites !!! Just click on census and fill in the blanks. It too is great. Here is that site: http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=cens us/search_census.asp Paul