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Civil War Genealogy & History

Choose from the following U.S.A. Military Genealogy
King Philip's War 1675
King William's War 1689
Queen Anne's War 1702
Father Rasle's War 1724-1726
French-Indian Wars 1754-1763
American Revolution 1777-1783
War of 1812
Seminole Wars 1817-18
Black Hawk War 1831-1832
Seminole Wars 1835-42
U.S.-Mexican War 1846-48
Seminole Wars 1855-58
Civil War 1861-1865
Fenian Raids 1857
Spanish American War 1898
Boxer Rebellion 1900-1901
WW 1 1917-1918
WW 2

Dictionary & Definitions American Military Mailing Lists American Military Links Olive Tree Library American Military Resources & Books Find your Military Ancestor

Finding Civil War Ancestors

Search for Military Ancestors in USA Military Records for Civil War Pension Files Search Civil War Recordsicon Find your Military Ancestors in Civil War Pensions Index; Confederate Soldiers for Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, Texas, Virginia; Southern Claims Commission; Confederate Papers & Confederate Amnesty Papers on Footnote.com
Over 2.8 million men (and a few hundred women) served in the Union and Confederate armies during the Civil War. This page will help you find the military service of individual Civil War soldiers.

Military Records

° Civil War Soldiers & Sailors Comprehensive research tool for searching the records of the soldiers and sailors who fought in the Civil War.
°  What's available in NARA Civil War Records

New York Civil War Family Photo Album Wishing you knew what your ancestor looked like? Find a photograph of your Civil War Ancestor Search 1800s Ancestor Photo Albums on Lost Faces. There are over 2,500 original photos in this growing one-of-a-kind exclusive genealogy collection. Quality reproductions available.
°  What's Available in American Military Records includes records such as Civil War Pension Index Part I
Civil War Pension Index Part II
Civil War Pension Index Part III
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° Civil War Links and Resources including Getting the Most Out of the Civil War Pension Index, Part I, Getting the Most Out of the Civil War Pension Index, Part II, Getting the Most Out of the Civil War Pension Index, Part III, West Virginia 5th Cavalry Roster
° Valley Forge Muster Roll
°  Confederate Disability Applications and Receipts - applications to the Board of Commissioners on Artificial Limbs from injured soldiers.
°  Confederate Pension Rolls, Veterans and Widows  - searchable database of pension applications and amended applications filed by resident Virginia Confederate veterans and their widows.
°  Confederate Pension Rolls, Veterans and Widows Electronic Card Index - index to pension applications and amended applications filed by resident Virginia Confederate veterans and their widows.
°  Robert E. Lee Camp Confederate Soldiers' Home Applications for Admission
° Tennessee Confederate Pension Applications of Soldiers and Widows The application lists the veteran's place of enlistment, unit, period of service, battles participated in, and whether he was wounded or captured, as well as place of birth, number and gender of children, and value of personal and real property
° Revolutionary War Pensioners Living in Ohio 1818-1819
° Rochester, New Hampshire list of soldiers ROCHESTER MEN OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION (1775 - 1783)
° Illinois Civil War Muster and Descriptive Rolls Database
° Schenectady Soldiers in the Civil War dozens of regiments and names, from the book Schenectady County, New York: Its History to the Close of the Nineteenth Century, by Austin A. Yates (1902)
° Revolutionary Soldiers, Chautauqua Co. NY Compiled from D.A.R. records available at the NYS Archives at Albany

Cemeteries & Burials of Civil War Soldiers

º United States Civil War Center Cemetery Index
º Confederate Cemetery Index "Dedicated to listing all the Final Resting Places of our Beloved Soldiers"
º Resting Places of United States Colored Troops
º Confederate Prisoners of War Who Died at Rock Island, Illinois

Union Camps Holding Confederate Soldiers

Confederate Prisoners at Fort Warren Boston
Camp Ford
Fort Delaware
Castle Pinckney
Confederate Prisoners in Alton Prison
Ohio State Penitentiary
Old Capitol Prison
Camp Chase
Camp Douglas
Camp Butler
Elmira NY
Confederate Prisoners Elmira
Union Prisoners Elmira
Johnson Island
Point Lookout
Fort Jefferson
Fort McHenry
Rock Island

Confederate Prisons Holding Union Soldiers

Danville Prison
Andersonville Prison (another site)
Libby Prison, Richmond, Virginia
Florence Stockade Florence, South Carolina
Richmond's Castle Thunder
Cahaba Prison
Blackshear Prison During the month of November in 1864, some 5,000 Union Soldiers began arriving by rail along the Atlantic & Gulf Railroad into the small community of Blackshear, Georgia.

Obituaries of Veterans

° David J. Huffman Marshall Co. Kansas
° Henderson Co. Tennessee newspaper obits
° Russel Co. VA Death Notices
° Marshall Co., West Virginia Newspaper Obits
° General Wayne P. Ferguson Wayne Co. WV
° Samuel Haws Wayne Co. WV
° Jacob Travis Rohrbaugh Wayne Co. WV

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Past Voices: Letters Home Letters from soldiers in the Civil War

Baker, Neil. Sgt. in 50th N.C. Infantry. Letter to Sarah Jane, 1863
Graham, William to Winnie Blount, North Carolina 1863
Mason, John H., 52 NC Inf. to brother from camp in VA 1862
Bidwell, Lucius E. 14th CT Inf to his mother 7 Feb 1864
Carter, James in Pembroke Maine to his sister Annie (Mrs. Grenville Redding) September 13, 1864
Case, Lester in Tennessee to his sister Sarah (Mrs. Charles Davis) of OH May 16 1863
Curwin, Joseph 126th PA Inf in VA to sister Mary 10 Nov. 1862
Davis, Stanley Lt. Civil War Co. D. MI, from Camp Decatur, Alabama 1864
Figures, Henry S. 48th AL to his father 9 May1861
Maxwell, James. 127th IL, letter to his brother 1863
Overman, Oscar, 103rd IL Inf. From Steamer Rocket to Emma Wadsworth 1863
Miller, Johnson, Crpl 40th Reg. Iowa - collection of letters 1863

Parsons, Col. John E.
from Toledo, Ohio to B. Perry, Esq. September 13, 1880
Pease Collection. Letters from Corp. George Pease 75th NY Reg. 1862, 1863
Brooks, William, Co E, 161st NYVI, from Alexandria LA to his wife 1864
Peckham, George Franklin Collection C Co. Wisconsin Civil War Memoirs 1906, 1910
Eberlein Collection - 8 Civil War letters from the Eberlein brothers George and Ferdinand to their parents in 1863. Ferdinand was in Company C 5th Regt Minn, Volunteers. George fought for Wisconsin.
Stone, Arthur, Mass. Inf. Co 34 Collection of letters to his mother 1862 & 1863
J. D. Williams Sept 27th, 1864 Petersburg VA To Molsey M. Williams

Regimental Rosters and Muster Rolls

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Online Books & Journals

Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion (1894 - 1922)
The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (1880 - 1901)

Read the books

Women in the Civil War : Warriors, Patriots, Nurses, and Spies (Perspectives on History) by Phyllis Raybin Emert (Editor)
Tracing Your Civil War Ancestor by Bertram Hawthorne Groene
In Search of Confederate Ancestors : The Guide (Journal of Confederate History, Vol 9) by J. H. Segars, John McGlone (Editor)

Money of the Civil War

° FRBSF Currency Exhibit - Civil War Confederate Currency, Fractional Currency, Demand Notes

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° CIVIL-WAR. A mailing list for the discussion of events during the American Civil War and genealogical matters related to the Civil War. Additional information can be found on the Civil-War List Homepage (http://www.public.usit.net/mruddy/). You must be a subscriber to post to the list. To subscribe send the word "subscribe" (without the quotes) as the only text in the body of a message to civil-war-request@rootsweb.com (mail mode) or civil-war-d-request@rootsweb.com (digest mode).
° CIVIL-WAR-IRISH. A mailing list for those with a genealogical interest in the Irish participants in the American Civil War and their descendants. Additional information can be found on the ALHLibrary & Archives Canada W web page (http://www.usgennet.org/~alhnwars/acwroots/irish.htm). You must be a subscriber to post to the list. To subscribe send the word "subscribe" (without the quotes) as the only text in the body of a message to civil-war-irish-l-request@rootsweb.com (mail mode) or civil-war-irish-d-request@rootsweb.com (digest mode).
° CIVIL-WAR-MINORITIES. A mailing list for the discussion and sharing of information regarding minorities and immigrants in the Civil War. You must be a subscriber to post to the list. To subscribe send the word "subscribe" (without the quotes) as the only text in the body of a message to civil-war-minorities-l-request@rootsweb.com (mail mode) or civil-war-minorities-d-request@rootsweb.com (digest mode).
° CIVIL-WAR-WOMEN. A mailing list for those who are researching women that served or assisted in the American Civil War. Additional information can be found on the ALHLibrary & Archives Canada W web page (http://www.usgennet.org/~alhnwars/acwroots/). You must be a subscriber to post to the list. To subscribe send the word "subscribe" (without the quotes) as the only text in the body of a message to civil-war-women-l-request@rootsweb.com (mail mode) or civil-war-women-d-request@rootsweb.com (digest mode).

Confederate Amnesty Papers Search the Applications from Former Confederates for Presidential Pardons (Amnesty Papers), 1865-67
Civil War Pension Index Search the index to Pension Files of Veterans Who Served Between 1861 and 1900.
Southern Claims Commission In 1871, the US government established the Southern Claims Commission to address southerners' petitions for compensation of supplies, livestock, and other items taken by the Union troops during the Civil War
Confederate Papers Search the Confederate Papers Relating to Citizens or Business Firms, 1861-65
Navy Widows Certificates Search the Approved Pension Applications of Widows and Other Dependents of Civil War and Later Navy Veterans (Navy Widows' Certificates), 1861-1910


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