Step nine : Looking for participation in the Civil War
Since the family was on the 1860 census I wondered if we might find relatives who fought in the Civil War who might have been part of the family in Germany-Prussia but did not appear to live in the same house as the immigrant nuclear family group. In other words, perhaps brothers of the head of household. Once again the focus is on discovering where in Germany-Prussia the immigrants left so that I could get into those records and go back further.
There were TWO, one in the same county, and one in a county over.
Using the National Archives and the State of Pennsylvania Archives as well as FamilySearch I was able to find the cards for these two men. The cards showed some basic information on them including that one of them filed for disabled status pension. The question was if there is more information held that these cards lead to and what information it might have. There was no way to prove that these two men who fought in the Civil War were relatives.
One must pay for this information, per name. I was told there was no way to tell what, if anything, of value might come up. Because this is speculative, the client is thinking about paying for it.
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