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Hi Y'All...


Ok, this is going to be a bit off-topic but I'll be brief.

If any of you charcoal-burners knows anything about how to research ancesters who were in the Civil War would you please send me a PM ?

By the way... in case anyone asks, "S.O.S." stands for "Save Our Sparks".
It was the motto of the Plymouth Colony Flintbusters Color Guard and Checkers Team.

;)
 
We seem to get a little bit more lee-way here than other sub forums with things as off topic, why not share the info here for all.

I have family that was in Northern KY during the War of Northern Aggression. I found lists of company rosters from units with both the Union and Confederacy.
The downside being that family names were listed with both. No way of telling what side any of my relatives might have fought with. But since they were from the area where these units originated I assume that some of my kin was in them.
 
Ancestry.com is pretty good. You have to buy a membership but has all kinds of records. I have a tree on there with some kin going back the the revolutionary war. I don't have the fancy membership so I don't have much info on my family before they came to the states. They has census record all kinds of stuff scanned. I found my great grandfathers enlistment card fow WW1, census records going back to 1910, telephone book listing, etc.
 
This is the first time that I ever searched and found my relative who served in the 27th Regiment of the Wisconsin Infantry.
Thanks a bunch for passing on the link! :)
 
Hi Arcticap...

Did you find this...?....


27th Regiment Infantry

Organized at Milwaukee, Wis., and mustered in March 7, 1863. Left State for Columbus, Ky., March 16. Attached to District of Columbus, Ky., 6th Division, 16th Army Corps, Dept. of the Tennessee, to May, 1863. 3rd Brigade, Kimball's Provisional Division, 16th Army Corps, to July, 1863. 3rd Brigade, Kimball's Division, District of Eastern Arkansas, to August, 1863. 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, Arkansas Expedition, to January, 1864. 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 7th Army Corps, Dept. of Arkansas, to April, 1864. 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 7th Army Corps, to May, 1864. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 7th Army Corps, to February, 1865. 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, Reserve Corps, Military Division West Mississippi. February, 1865. 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 13th Army Corps, Military Division West Mississippi, to August, 1865.

SERVICE.--Duty at Columbus, Ky., until May 30, 1863. Moved to Young's Point, La., May 30-June 3. Moved to Haines' Bluff June 11, thence to Snyder's Bluff June 16, and duty there until July 25. Siege of Vicksburg, Miss., June 4-July 4. Ordered to Helena, Ark., July 25, and duty there until August. Steele's Expedition against Little Rock, Ark., August 10-September 10. Bayou Fourche and capture of Little. Rock September 10. Duty at Little Rock until March 23, 1864. Steele's Expedition to Camden March 23-May 3. Okolona April 2-3. Prairie D'Ann April 9-12. Occupation of Camden April 16. Evacuation of Camden April 26. Jenkins' Ferry, Saline River, April 30. Duty at Little Rock and Pine Bluff until February 7, 1865. Pine Bluff June 21, 1864. (Cos. "A," "D," "E" and "H" on guard duty along Little Rock & Memphis Railroad west of Brownsville.) Ordered to New Orleans, La., February 7, 1865, thence to Navy Cave, Mobile Bay. Campaign against Mobile and its defenses March 17-April 12. Siege of Spanish Fort and Fort Blakely March 26-April 8. Assault and capture of Fort Blakely April 9. Occupation of Mobile April 12. Expedition to Manna Hubba Bluff April 19-25. Moved to Mcintosh Bluff, and duty there until May 9. Moved to Mobile, thence to Brazos Santiago, Texas, June 1-6. Moved to Brownsville August 2 and there mustered out August 5, 1865. Discharged August 29, 1865.

Regiment lost during service 22 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 5 Officers and 232 Enlisted men by disease. Total 259. :cool::)
 
I didn't see that, but I was aware that he died of disease in Louisiana which is where the record indicates that company "E" was sent.
Thanks again for bringing it to my attention. :)
 
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