I appreciate your help. I'm going to have to disagree with you though...Jeff Weaver wrote a great piece about the 7th Btn Va Cav" in which Prentice was LtCol. Prentice was not involved with Capt Turner Ashby's 7th Confederate Cavalry. Why do I think that they were in the State Line first? Probably because many men were in the State Lines before the regular units were formed. This 72nd Militia you wrote me about was in play for only about 10 - 20 days as Weaver points out. It quite likely was formed After the state line regiments.