Civil war papers online for the first time

GARY PETTUS The Clarion-Ledger JACKSON, Miss. Before home computers arrived, Grady Howell's "search engine" was a pay phone and a bunch of nickels. "I'd take a list of names of Civil War soldiers, drive to whatever community their company came from, and I'd look for their descendants," said Howell, 64, of Jackson, a Civil War historian and author of 19 books. "I'd drop in those nickels and call ...