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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>
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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>
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<div>To any Civil War expert:</div>
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<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>
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<div>Many thanks.</div>
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<div>Judy Riffel</div>
<div>Baton Rouge</div>
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