<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 8.00.6001.18882"> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><STRONG><EM><FONT color=#000080 face="Times New Roman">Hear, Hear, Marie!</FONT></EM></STRONG></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #000080 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=mvmcgrs@aol.com href="mailto:mvmcgrs@aol.com">mvmcgrs@aol.com</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=riffelj@bellsouth.net href="mailto:riffelj@bellsouth.net">riffelj@bellsouth.net</A> ; <A title=apgpubliclist@apgen.org href="mailto:apgpubliclist@apgen.org">apgpubliclist@apgen.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, January 24, 2010 4:28 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [APG Public List] Civil War question</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><FONT color=black size=2 face=arial> <DIV><FONT size=2><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Judy,<BR><BR>It really doesn't matter what the possibilities are of other men of an advanced age serving in the Civil War. You have a pension file that NEEDS to be viewed. To ignore the file and base an assumption of what others might have done is not acceptable.</FONT></FONT><BR></DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV style="CLEAR: both">Marie<BR><BR>Marie Varrelman Melchiori, CG, CGL<BR>Melchiori Research Services<BR>---------------------------------------------------------------<BR>CG, Certified Genealogist and CGL, Certified Genealogical Lecturer are service marks of the Board for Certification of Genealogists, used under license by Board-certified associates after periodic competency evaluations. </DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: helvetica,arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">-----Original Message-----<BR>From: JUDY A RIFFEL <riffelj@bellsouth.net><BR>To: APG Public List <apgpubliclist@apgen.org><BR>Sent: Sun, Jan 24, 2010 10:25 am<BR>Subject: [APG Public List] Civil War question<BR><BR> <DIV id=AOLMsgPart_2_cf7fa68c-2db2-4017-ab29-0559b7e47548> <DIV>To any Civil War expert:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>How common would it have been for a man in his mid to late 60s to have served in a Union Cavalry unit during the Civil War?  I am editing an 1839 letter for publication trying to ID the individuals mentioned.  It's from a wife to her husband.  I traced the couple on the census up to 1860 in Steuben Co., Indiana.  Then, I found a man by the same name serving in an Indiana Cavalry unit and dying in the South in 1865.  No mention of his age, but he enlisted in Steuben Co.  Problem is, this guy would have been nearly 70.  I thought perhaps the soldier was someone from a younger generation, a nephew or son, but I'm not finding anyone else by that name.  Plus, there is a pension file that lists a widow with the same first name as the wife.  I don't have the actual pension record, so I don't know if her maiden name matches.  But the names are unusual enough that it would be too much of a coincidence.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Many thanks.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Judy Riffel</DIV> <DIV>Baton Rouge</DIV></DIV></DIV></FONT> <P> <HR> <P></P><BR>No virus found in this incoming message.<BR>Checked by AVG - www.avg.com <BR>Version: 8.5.432 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2642 - Release Date: 01/24/10 07:33:00<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>