Thank you, Jim. I did obtain the foler of letters. My father had transcribed several of them from the old hand-writing to typed versions several years ago; but I was glad I ordered the file because it contained a few letters that I had not seen. I appreciate your information on Captain James G. Russell. I will try and look into that further. I know Orsino was in Spring Hill, Livingston County when the war started. His wife somehow ended up going to Versailles, Morgan County, around this time to live with Orsino's parents. I am not sure whether he took her there and then enlisted--which then could have been anywhere or whether he enlisted in Spring Hill (probably with Wililam Y. Slack). I sure wish they would have kept better records. There was a statement in one of the books I looked at that said some of the units took muster in the morning and that evening they used the paper to make bullets for the next day's battle. Thanks again. Karin Williams Enger