All 8 of my gggrandfathers were CSA. At 12:11 PM 3/27/2011, you wrote: >This is especially interesting for families like mine who had as >many soldiers in the CSA >as they had on the UNION side. > >The War Between the Stats. Yes, that's stats, not states. > >Historians and statisticians are questioning the statistics of >Confederate War dead. Official military records compiled in 1866 >counted 40,275 North Carolina soldiers who died in uniform. >Reportedly, North Carolina had more men die in uniform than any other >Confederate state, although not as many as New York in the Union. Now >new investigations seem to show the 1866 claims, made when records >were spotty, are highly inaccurate. > >While the new counts are not yet complete, it looks like the true >count will be about 31,000 deaths of North Carolina soldiers during >the war. Meanwhile, a separate count iis being made of Virginia >soldiers and it looks like its final tally will also be about 31,000, >far higher than previous reports. > >"It's going to be close," says Virginia librarian Edwin Ray, the man >making the count of Virginia deaths in uniform. > >The issue tends to be emotional in the affected states which have >pride in their soldiers who died for the losing cause. Whatever the >final count, many people will have difficulty believing it. > >New York reported the most deaths of any state: 46,534, according to >the 1866 federal report. > >You can read more in an article by Cameron McWhirter in the Wall >Street Journal at http://goo.gl/usb0U If this link does not work - >try this one: >http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704662604576202823930087328.html?mod=WSJ_hp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsSecond > >Another interesting fact is that Cameron McWhirter had family >fighting for the CSA >and this family member was a 'friend' of my distant cousin General Abe Buford >who rode with General Forrest -CSA.. > > > >To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at >http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-roots.html Joe in Austin equitare arcum tendere et veritatem dicere Never try to teach a hog to sing. It is a waste of time and will annoy the hog To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-roots.html