Bob, just because there is no record doesn't mean he never served. The records on Confederate soldiers are far from being all inclusive. In one of my searches for Confederate ancestors I found a pension records from Alabama for a soldier that wasn't in the Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System. I have also found a gravesite of a soldier in Elmwood Cemetery in Memphis who was not listed in that system either. It turned out neither of them was my ancestor, just persons with the same name.