Hi all, I've been looking into an Edward Mills that I think might be an ancestor. Ancestry lists his name as being in the 16th CO of the Haywood co NC Regiment but has nothing else on him. Does anyone have access to information on the Haywood co North Carolina Regiments? What records might be in his NARA files? Thanks ahead, Keith Bailey
Keith, A great number of things. First, everytime his name was listed anywhere, a card was filled out listing that data and placed in the file for that name, in that regiment. If he served in more than one regiment, that name would have a file for that regiment. You could have as many as only one item in the file or a lot. The purpose of the file was to provide a quicker way to determine the eligibility and claims of pensioners, so every record locatable was utilized. So here goes; capture records, release records, possibly place of birth or country of origin, muster rolls, pay records, misc. statements about the soldier, record of death, date of enlistment, or discharge and where, signing for pay or goods received. There is no norm as to what you can expect and it really depends on how good and how many records survived for the Regiment the individual served in. Patrick ----- Original Message ----- From: "keith d bailey" <kbailey@frontiernet.net> To: <WARof1812-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2003 8:23 PM Subject: Edward Mills > Hi all, > I've been looking into an Edward Mills that I think might be an ancestor. Ancestry lists his name as being in the 16th CO of the Haywood co NC Regiment but has nothing else on him. Does anyone have access to information on the Haywood co North Carolina Regiments? What records might be in his NARA files? > > Thanks ahead, > Keith Bailey > > > > ==== WARof1812 Mailing List ==== > MESSAGE HINT: Limit your per line characters > to 55 to 70 for a much better return message. > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >