Thanks so much for your kind words. The only paycheck I get for my research is an occasional "thanks" from a fellow researcher, and it always makes my day when someone hits a research jackpot based on some little hint I was able to provide.

And I'm travelling in good company -- there are some excellent, selfless researchers doing the same thing in this forum that I'm doing. The common thread among us seems to be a desire to preserve our Civil War history and heritage, and to perpetuate the memory of our heroes in blue and gray. I can't think of a better way to spend my retirement years (my wife tells her friends that she's the last Civil War widow).