ONLINE REFERENCES
FOR RESEARCHING
CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS
CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS
Ancestry (subscription required)
http://www.ancestry.com/
•Many Civil War resources:
•Draft & Enlistment
•Casualties
•Disciplinary Actions
•Awards & Decorations of Honor
•Pension Index
•Service Records – only general information
•Rosters
•Veteran Gravesites
•1890 Veteran Census
Fold3 (previously "Footnote.com") (subscription required)
http://www.fold3.com/
•They have contracted with the National Archives for digitization of records – work in progress
•(Civil War and Revolutionary War)
–Civil War Service Records
–Pension Index
–Widows Pensions
–Navy Survivor Certificates
–Navy Widow Certificates
Heritage Quest (available through many Public Libraries for free)
http://www.heritagequestonline.com/
They have much of what is on Ancestry and Footnote.
Fantastic books/periodical searches
•US Federal Census
•Books
•Genealogical Journals and Publications
•Revolutionary War Pensions and Land Bounty Records
•Freedman’s Bank (1865-1874) for African Americans
•US Serial Set – US Congress publications
American Civil War Research Database (subscription required, $25 per year)
http://www.civilwardata.com/
•Private Database
•Currently recorded 4.2 million soldiers, 4,600 regimental rosters, 20,000 soldier photographs
US Gen Web
http://www.usgenweb.com/
•Genealogical Resources at the County Level – not consistent, but many excellent sources exist.
•Sometimes includes Rosters, Biographies, Death Records, Narratives, etc.
Google http://www.google.com/
•Google Books http://books.google.com/
–Besides the regular search engine, Google Books is an under-utilized resource of immense value
–Example – search digitized books such as this: Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War
•http://books.google.com/books?id=fYN3AAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=michigan+in+the+civil+war&hl=en#v=onepage&q&f=false=frontcover&dq=michigan+in+the+civil+war&hl=en#v=onepage&q&f=false
Cyndi’s List http://www.cyndislist.com/
•List of many Civil War Links
–http://www.cyndislist.com/cw.htm
•Civil War Pensions – how to order from National Archives
–http://www.cyndislist.com/cyndi/pensions.htm
Regimental Histories -- Dyer’s Compendium @ The Civil War Archive http://www.civilwararchive.com/regim.htm
Regiment Information – Eastern Theater Orders of Battle
http://www.civilwarintheeast.com/USA-Regiments.php
Federal Government Sites
National Park Service
•Soldiers and Sailors Index
–http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/
U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center // Carlisle, PA
•Major Photographic Collection
–http://www.ahco.army.mil/site/index.jsp
US Navy
•Civil War Naval Officers, 1865
–http://www.history.navy.mil/wars/cw/cwframe.htm
•Naval History
– http://www.history.navy.mil/wars/index.html#anchor4162http://www.history.navy.mil/wars/index.html#anchor4162
Library of Congress
•Portraits of Named Civil War Enlisted Men
–http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/233_cwsoldiers.html
National Archives
•Civil War Genealogy Sources
–http://www.archives.gov/research/military/civil-war/civil-war-genealogy-resources/index.htmlgenealogy-resources/index.html
•General Civil War Research
–http://www.archives.gov/research/military/civil-war/
•Ordering Service Records
–http://www.archives.gov/veterans/military-service-records/pre-ww-1-records.htmlrecords/pre-ww-1-records.html
Bureau of Land Management
•Land Patent Database
–http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/search/default.aspx#searchTabIndex=0&searchByTypeIndex=0TabIndex=0&searchByTypeIndex=0http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/search/default.aspx#searchTabIndex=0&searchByTypeIndex=0TabIndex=0&searchByTypeIndex=0
State and Unit Sites
Civil War Rosters
http://www.civilwarroster.com/
•Website with many state and unit links
Wisconsin page: http://www.civilwarroster.com/cw/cw-wi.html
California
•California State Military Museum
–http://www.militarymuseum.org/HistoryCW.html
Delaware
* Roster of Delaware Soldiers
-- http://www.bitsofblueandgray.com/roster.htm
Illinois
•Illinois Civil War Muster Rolls – Secretary of State
–http://www.ilsos.gov/genealogy/
•Chicago Resources
–http://www.chicagoancestors.org/#tab-tools
•Illinois Adjutant Generals – Unit Rosters
–http://civilwar.ilgenweb.net/reg_html/
Iowa
•Iowa Genweb Transcription of Adjutant General Office Rosters
–http://iagenweb.org/civilwar/books/logan.htm
•Iowa Gravestone Inscriptions – WPA Project
–http://iowawpagraves.org/index.php?lc=1&last=Baldwin&fc=1&first=S&cid=38
Kentucky
•http://www.kdla.ky.gov/resources/KYCivilWarResearch3.htm
Michigan
•http://www.michiganinthewar.org/cwmireg.htm
Minnesota
•1st Minnesota Volunteer Infantry
–http://www.1stminnesota.net/
Missouri
•Index to the Civil War Officers of Missouri Volunteers and Missouri State Militia
–http://home.usmo.com/~momollus/MOofficers.htm
New York
* NY State Archives Civil War Soldier Database
-- http://iarchives.nysed.gov/CivilWarWeb/search.jsp
Ohio
•Ohio Civil War Roster - Ohio Genealogical Society
–http://www.ogs.org/research/search_ohcwss.php
Pennsylvania
•Pennsylvania State Archives – Civil War Veteran Card Files
–http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp?view=ArchiveIndexes&ArchiveID=17
Wisconsin
•Civil War Rosters - Wisconsin Historical Society
–http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/roster/search.asp
Military Ranks
•Union Army
–http://usarmyinsigniahomepage.110mb.com/civil_us.html
•Confederate Army
–http://usarmyinsigniahomepage.110mb.com/civil_cs.html
•Union Navy
–http://usarmyinsigniahomepage.110mb.com/civil_usn.html
•Confederate Navy
–http://usarmyinsigniahomepage.110mb.com/civil_csn.html
