Dear Mr. Martin: Thank you so much for your help. I think the service record you found is most likely my g.grandfather as far as it goes. The census report for 11860 is not him. The age and everything else about that man do not match my John W.Weems. My John was only 21 or 22 when he entered the war. He had a wife and at most one child. He was wounded, shot in the arm. Folk lore of him was he ended up scouting, but was'nt killed in service, as was Cap. Philip Vanhorn Weems was in Atlanta Ga. I know nothing of my people before or after this war record, but I wont stop. God bless you from Co. K, and me.