Hi Kathy
I was at the NA two weeks ago and at least all the pension records for Confederates are kept in Richmond. NA has none of them. They have all the union pension records.
Doug
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> Date: 2002/08/11 Sun AM 08:56:50 EDT
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> Subject: US National Archives
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> Week after next I will be spending afternoons at the National Archives (while
> the kids are at a weeklong sleepaway camp).  I have checked with their
> Customer Service to make sure the area of research is open (it is) and what
> their hours are.
>
> I have at least two major brickwalls that online research, hands-on City of
> Norfolk Courthouse and LVa records and last summer's week at the DAR Library
> did not completely knock down.
>
> Would any of you have suggestions on what areas at the Archives might help?
> Are the Confederate records there?  I have an old Navy Captain (Confederacy
> had them listed within the Cavalry) whose card in the Library of Virginia
> shows him.  A published account merged alot of info not related to him but
> included people with the same last name instead (including his younger son)
> as if him.  I am just trying to get a bit more info on this guy.  He was the
> "founder" and head of Young's Harborguard, John James Young, a Canadian
> immigrant (between 1830s-1844 when he married) occasionally listing on Census
> records his POB as Maine.  He died in Norfolk 9/7/1883 at age 66 (I have his
> obit & city death record transcribed) but he may have been buried (pretty
> assuredly) on the now paved over grounds of the old St Mary's Church on Holt
> Street in Norfolk.  The stones were not kept and the Church records are too
> brittle to be allowed access (I was told in a letter).  I have vague info on
> his parents, John from Dumfries Scotland and Mary the widow of an Englishman,
> Holbrooke; her maiden name may be Holdstock; DOB 6/7/1817.
>
> One of his subordinates, Lloyd Thomas Reed, is the son of another brickwall,
> Joshua David Reed.  I can find absolutely nothing on him as far as where in
> Virginia he is from and who his parents may be.  I found his son's electronic
> card on the Library's online records as well.  I've found JDR's marriage
> record and his gravestone (nothing further in the cemetery's office records).
>  His stats are DOB 10/11/1820 Norfolk (Berkeley, then called Ferry's Point),
> DOM 11/16/1841 Norfolk, DOD 4/22/1885 Norfolk (residence on Bank Street,
> occupation Hatter).
>
> These two fellows are enough to keep me busy for a week.  I am just looking
> for a little direction.  Any suggestions out there of resources you found at
> the Archives (or not)?
>
> Thanking you in advance,
> Katie Holland
> Washington, DC
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