Chat | Daily Search | My GenForum | Community Standards | Terms of Service Jump to Forum Home: General Topics: Civil War Genealogy Forum Re: Official Documentation of a Confederate Soldier's Death Posted by: Alan Pitts (ID *****6088) Date: May 30, 2008 at 12:36:54 In Reply to: Re: Official Documentation of a Confederate Soldier's Death by Greg Little of 25303 Consider the state of communications at the time of the war. Many different lists were being kept in Richmond and other points, and no means existed to track everything about any one soldier. More than likely the widow never really knew exactly what had happened to her husband (a fairly recent CW film is based on that premise). Since it's unlikely the widow had access to first-hand information, you should start with information found in the soldier's military service file and treat that as reliable. Notify Administrator about this message? Followups: Re: Official Documentation of a Confederate Soldier's Death Greg Little 5/30/08 http://genforum.genealogy.com/civilwar/messages/24979.html Search this forum: Find all of the words Find any of the words Search all of GenForum: Proximity matching Link to GenForum Add Forum

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