Ladies and gentlemen: I sent this list to the Hardy site for the soul purpose of letting readers know of names of Hardy countians who were in the Union Army. I stated they were "enlistees" as this is how ALL who were listed for the entire state were listed in teh AG report used. . Since my great grandfather, Benjamin F. Evans, was listed and I know he joined at age 16 in December, 1861, I assumed he was an enlistee as I don't think they were drafting 16 year olds at that date. I also did not post to convey an impression that West Virginians joined only the Union Army. As Terry Gruber reported, Hardy County was a bitterly divided county and I suspect more Hardy countians joined the Confederate Army than the Union, but that is beside the point. I think I have read 30,000 PLUS men from West Virginia served in the Union Army and I listed those from Hardy County found in an official record simply to help genealogy researchers for Hardy to perhaps locate a few lost ancestors. I have received a few e-mails thanking me as I had helped them to locate a missing ancestor. However, these pale when compared to those who question whether those listed were enlistees or draftees and those who think I am casting dispersions on those from WV who served in the Confederate Army. Any by the way, until 1863, the WV Units were designated as VIRGINIA UNITS which has caused some resarchers to believe the units were Cofederate Units. Until WV officially became a state, that is why the units were designated as Virginia units and not WV. Mike Foreman Winchester, VA