Hello,

Lee Sturkey's posts shows well the point of period newspaper research.

In the many years of going through Civil War era newspapers I can attest to finding loads of casualty reports published in newspapers of a particualr state compiled typically by the unit adjutant. Of interest to me are the color guards casualties (often not stated as such), but these newspaper reports are underused by modern scholars.

Lee - it was really good to meet you at UGA a couple weeks ago.

Greg Biggs