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From: "Glee Krapf" <>
Subject: Re: [MO-CW] Looking Up Your Missouri Civil War Ancestor
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 00:38:43 -0400
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Thank you for this answer. I also heard from a Mr Taylor and he was very
helpful. I did some hunting on two of the sites that he suggusted. I
discovered my step 2nd great grand father in a unit and the site said that
the units lists was taken from Confederate POW lists. Confederate POW where
were they taken after they were captured? How would I find him on one of
these lists and where would I look? He saw my 2nd greatgrand father get shot
and die. Maybe he was captured at this time too. My step 2nd greatgrand
father Henry Waller died of a head wound that he got during the war. He
could have gotten it at the same time as his friend my 2nd greatgrand father
William Bea was killed. Then maybe he was captured and could not return home
till the wars end. Henry Waller went home and two years after the war
married William's widow. I guess that this is a little confusing but Much of
this is a mystery and I would like to descover how much of this story is
true. Finding Henry's name in a unit lists and they had no other records but
put that list together from POW lists really was a new bit of info that I
had not heard before.
I will be checking out the MO sect of state website. I have sent for federal
records but they do not have Union Malitia records.
I have ancestors with both sides. Two grandpaws on the union side and two on
the confed side in MO. They are various stages of greats. Only got federal
records on one. So am happy to know that I can ask for records from the
state of MO. I guess that I will have to pay for my step 2nd great grandpa
records if they exist.
Thanks for your help!
Glee

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Subject: [MO-CW] Looking Up Your Missouri Civil War Ancestor


> Descendants of Missouri Civil War veterans,
> About the best all-around place to get information about MO Civil War
> veterans who served on either side (or both) is the MO State Archives
> office
> which you can find on the Internet under the MO Secretary of State's
> website. Ask
> only about one veteran at a time, and I am told this service is free to
> descendants. It takes about three months for the volunteers to look up and
> copy
> your ancestor's military service record, assuming they can find it.
> Also, you could find forms at your local library to consult National
> Archives and Records Administration files in Washington, D. C. If the NARA
> finds
> the record you request, they will send one page of the form back so you
> will
> know how much their service will cost. There are choices you can make
> about
> what kind of record you may want, but the library can explain that or the
> NARA
> website can, too. NARA is not good for Confederate records and hardly has
> any of
> the records for the tens of thousands of Missourians who served in the
> northern Enrolled Missouri Militia, while the Missouri State Archives is
> better for
> both of those.
>
> This is a reply to the one who asked for help on this forum in the
> last
> day or so that those still fighting the Civil War chose to ignore. Keep it
> up
> and people interested in knowing more about their ancestors in that
> fascinating war will drop off this site and not come back. Like Yogi Berra
> once said:
> "They will stay away in droves."
> Bruce Nichols
>
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