Dear Jean Colley:

Maybe it would help you if you looked at the Official Records of the War of the Rebellion (abbreviated OR). These records are available, on-line, free-of-charge. I like to google on e-history. Scroll down two lines and click on the OR. Using this search engine, type in just so, for example: Battle and Cedar and Mountain or Battle and Culpeper. By scrolling through the descriptions of the OR you will see information about the Orange County Courthouse and skirmishes. Note: By contrast, if you type in Orange and County and Courthouse, you don't get the results. Just so. Seeing it is important information.

In the old settled areas of Virginia, it seems that they always took the highways to the courthouses. This is the way of the the Scot-Irish Campbell clan.

For other sources of information, for example, you can google on Orange County Courthouse.

I also would like to emphasize how absolutely great googling on the Virginia Historical Society is. They are heaven sent people.

Other ideas would include obtaining a copy of the hospital/medical record. You may want to google on the Civil War Message Board Portal and click on the Surgeons website and ask for their expertise.

Was there a Confederate Widows Pension Claim for his state of residence? If so, this may tell you where he was buried, for example if "he was returned to his old home and buried."

There is also a website called: findagrave.com

These suggestions might be useful, Virginia. I like the Historical Society. Happy Thanksgiving, Jean.

Most sincerely,
Terri Anne Hastings

Early 1800s surnames in North Carolina: Christian and Stokes