Thanks for your warm welcome Bryan and yes I`m aware the Missouri & Arkansas boys were often in the same units. I hope to hang around long as the good Lord allows but at 76 with lots of miles on this old body. I cannot vouch for having much "expertise" on the WBTS but I have had a lot of interest in it all my life and have read many books on "The late unpleasantness" or as Dad used to say "The war that we took second place in".