Please help a Capo search for an Ancestor from the Civil War

[Gregoshi]

Capo, the National Park Service's Gettysburg website has a page about searching for your Civil War relatives. You can find that here: http://www.nps.gov/gett/ancestors.htm
The above page mentions this site: http://www.civilwardata.com./pers_dir.html


Without paying a membership fee, it will tell you if your relative is listed in their records - they have about 77% of all soldiers on each side in their database so far. I did a search on "Bland" from Virginia and it came back with 63 Blands from Virginia. Unfortunately, the highest rank was a Captain J T Bland. There was no origin (town/city) listed for him.

Basically, the more you can find out about him before you start your search, the better the chances of locating him. For example, where did he live in Virginia?

Good luck with your search.

Edit: Here are a ton of links to explore: http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Lair/3680/cw/cw-va.html