An upstate history museum is looking for information about military members who were killed in combat.

Only 23 years old, John David Chapman of Laurens County, had seen more than most people in an entire lifetime. His grandmother said, his family discovered Wednesday, he is another casualty of war.

State officials have quietly picked through boxes of Civil War state currency and auctioned it on eBay, providing the state archives with an influx of cash amid tight budgets.

Rachel Cockrell, registrar at the Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum, says a gun by itself can be a good example of a weapon used in a particular war, but a gun that grandpa used in Word War II to save his buddies is much more valuable.