Thanks George. You are the man! I am going to send this information to Archer Avary III who is recovering from an illness right now. He told me how Dr. Avary rode home on his horse after the surrender. He gave his uniform pants to a fellow soldier who was naked and rode home in his long johns. He did keep his pistol, horse etc. I think because he was not in the war that long he still had a uniform. His saddle and boots were lost. The truth is stranger than fiction or may be fiction. When you start to research your family tree a lot falls out that will astonish you. My family astonishes me. The stories my grandmother told me are so wild all to cover up the fact she and her other siblings were sent to an orphanage in DeKalb County around 1910. One of my cousins did not even know her father had been declared dead because he disappeared after WWI. That was my Uncle Robert Stanford. No civil war reference, but his father was born in Columbia County in 1850 and just missed the war.

John