From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Sun Mar 12 18:19:32 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k2D1JWjb012399; Sun, 12 Mar 2006 18:19:32 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k2D1JVMx002730 for ; Sun, 12 Mar 2006 18:19:31 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k2CMn7FI010844 for ; Sun, 12 Mar 2006 17:49:07 -0500 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k2CMn7UR010843 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Sun, 12 Mar 2006 17:49:07 -0500 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k2CKnDFI010602 for ; Sun, 12 Mar 2006 15:49:13 -0500 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k2CNJQBT007949 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Sun, 12 Mar 2006 16:19:26 -0700 X-Envelope-From: juanita2@cox.net Sun Mar 12 16:19:26 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k2CNJQjb007938 for ; Sun, 12 Mar 2006 16:19:26 -0700 Received: from centrmmtao01.cox.net (centrmmtao01.cox.net [70.168.83.83]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k2CNJNcE001331 for ; Sun, 12 Mar 2006 16:19:24 -0700 Received: from DH433L51 ([24.255.150.191]) by centrmmtao01.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.05.02 201-2131-123-102-20050715) with ESMTP id <20060312231919.ITKI17668.centrmmtao01.cox.net@DH433L51> for ; Sun, 12 Mar 2006 18:19:19 -0500 From: "juanita" To: ROOTS-M@rootsweb.com Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 17:19:39 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <4414582B.5902.8532E93A@localhost> Priority: normal In-reply-to: <2bd.6813198.31460357@aol.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (4.21c) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Subject: [ROOTS-L] Re: Civil War Veterans Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Beside checking NARA for military records, pension records and bounty land, I found information about Civil War veterans in the State Adjutant General's offices. My ancestor fought with the Illinois troops...actually lived in Wisconsin...and the Adjutant General in the State Capital had his enlistment record telling where he was living at the time, his age, married or not, place of birth, and other info I did not get in his pension file from NARA. Archives at the State Library also have military records. I read actual reports written from the field during the Civil War several ancestors who served with the Iowa troops. Most of this info is from military officers of a particular unit. juanita > In the Federal records you may or may not find his enlistment paper > which gives name, age, occupation and physical description. > Essentially, the records of someone who lived through the war consist > of copies of the muster roll, which said he was present between > certain dates in a given unit at a specific grade - all so he could > be paid. If he applied for a pension, you get information regarding > his wife and children, not his parents. Try on line for state > information regarding the 72nd. I would expect there to be a fair > amount.