Rob,

I've seen many of your posts concerning John Cunningham. May i ask what you do & do not know? Have you found anything to document that he served?

Where did he live in 1850? 1860? 1890?, when he died?

To narrow things down a bit, what sources have you checked & not checked?

It is estimated that approximately 20% of all Confederate records were lost at some point.

I have two gg grandfathers who were of age & were said to have served in the Confederate Army. I've searched for years without any luck, either they did not serve or their records were lost or never existed in the first place.

Some regiments kept better records than others & some regiments had a higher survival rate of those records. Some company/regimental officers were given orders to destroy their records at the close of the war.

All records were supposed to be sent to Washington. Many Officers had no intention of handing over, to the yankee's, anything which the yankees could find useful in the persecution of former Confederate's.

Many records were probably taken home by officers & kept in attics through out the south, only to be thrown away by later generations. Some paper work may still exist that will be found some day or possibly never found.

D.M. Williams