From the Catholic News Service (CNS) dated May 2:

In an effort to block posthumous rebaptisms by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Catholic dioceses throughout the world have been directed by the Vatican not to give information in parish registers to the Mormons' Genealogical Society of Utah.

An April 5 letter from the Vatican Congregation for Clergy, obtained by Catholic News Service in late April, asks episcopal conferences to direct all bishops to keep the Latter-day Saints from microfilming and digitizing information contained in those registers.

The reason for this decision is "to prevent the Latter-day Saints from using records -- such as baptismal documentation -- to posthumously baptize by proxy the ancestors of church members."

According to Wikipedia:

"Baptism for the dead, vicarious baptism or proxy baptism is a religious practice of baptizing a living person on behalf of an individual who is dead; the living person is acting as the deceased person's proxy. So it is with this practice, an individual is baptized to give those beyond the grave the opportunity of baptism by proxy. It has been practiced since 1840 in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, where it is also called temple baptism because it is performed only in dedicated temples. Advocates of this practice believe it is referred to in The New Testament (1 Cor. 15:29); it was forbidden by the Orthodox Church in the 4th century as an aberrant practice of heretical groups, and is not practiced in modern mainstream Christianity. Baptism for the dead is also practiced by several other groups in the Latter Day Saint movement."

For those of us who are not Mormons (such as myself - I am a non-practicing Catholic) and have a passionate interest in genealogy and the study of our family history, we have benefited greatly by the LDS belief in baptism by proxy. It is this practice that forms the basis for the Mormon's interest in genealogy. Members of the LDS Church are encouraged to seek out their genealogy. This genealogy research is then used as the foundation for their research in the Church's efforts to perform temple ordinances for as many deceased persons as possible. If the LDS had not shown such generous openness in sharing the records that they have collected and cataloged and made available through their Family History Library (FHL), modern genealogy would not be what it is today - it would still be a pastime pursuit of the privileged.

Below is a link to a table listing all of the Dobbs of Georgia that I have found to have served during the Civil War. The table is a list of all Georgia DOBBS that I have found listed on Ancestry.com's American Civil War Soldiers database. I have attempted to identify the one's whom I have documented in my database. Some I am certain of; others I am not so certain of.
Dobbs in the Civil War