Genealogy

So the BBC had an article - War records reveal America's past - about Ancestry.com uploading a bunch of old U.S. military records, and that access was going to be free for a couple months.  So I punched in the somewhat uncommon last name in its old spelling and came up with a Civil War entry.  I'd heard rumors of that, but I'm not sure whether it's the right one or not - there were a couple Jacobs with that last name in the area, apparently.  The National Parks service maintains the Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System, which has the information, too.