While doing research on relatives who served in the Civil War, did anybody discover that a relative with the same name and age was not the person you thought they were? For example, in my early years of Civil War ancestry research, I thought my 3x Great Grandfather Archibald McLaren had a younger brother named Charles McLaren who served in 16th Ohio Infantry. However, when doing recent research on additional Civil War relatives, I found that Charles was in fact Archibald's cousin rather brother. Where I got confused was that both Charles' were born in 1842 and lived in the same area of Ohio, brother Charles in Coshocton County and cousin Charles in Muskingum County. I have since updated my research to acknowledge this.