Due to being at a standstill in my research, I have decided to look throught the pension records I have on four of my ggggrandfathers (may be more than 3 greats but you get the idea) and found that I had a death date for William Bottomley's first wife, Annie E. Townsend.  I know that when I rec'd the records originally I read them once if not twice.  Isn't it amazing how you can read something put it away for a while and then read it again and learn so much more!  However sometimes they raise more questions.  My latest is: were there a lot of soldiers that contracted scurvy and ended up dying due to complications of it?  In the 4 records that I have, 2 of my ggggrandfathers had scurvy (diarhea), one died due to injuries to the lower back involving a mule while on patrol, and the 4th I don't remember off hand. 

 I just love pension records because I can get an insight of how they talked, some physical characteristics, and general understanding of what thier lives were like. The most interesting read of my pension records is that of Charles Shelton's widow, it read like a soap opra script. :-)