Chasing Civil War Ancestor resources:
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Where to Start the Search:
1850, 1860 and 1870 Federal Census records in combination to find location(s)
1890 Civil War Veteran’s and Widows Census Schedule
1890 Civil War Veterans & Widows Census Schedules mostly Union (requires payment part of an Ancestry subscription) includes online digitized census images - available for the District
of Columbia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi,
Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North
Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma and Indian Territory, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South
Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia,
Wisconsin & Wyoming
1910 Federal Census asked the Question: “Whether a survivor of the Union or
Confederate Army or Navy”
On Line Civil War Indexes
http://www.militaryindexs.com/civilwar/
Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System
http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/index.html
I. SUMMARY OF THE CWSS
The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System is a computerized database containing very basic facts about
servicemen who served on both sides during the Civil War. The initial focus of the CWSS is the Names
Index Project, a project to enter names and other basic information from 6.3 million soldier records in the
National Archives. The facts about the soldiers were entered from records that are indexed to many
millions of other documents about Union and Confederate Civil War soldiers maintained by the National
Archives and Records Administration.
Other information includes: histories of regiments in both the Union and Confederate Armies, links to
descriptions of 384 significant battles of the war, and other historical information. Additional information
about soldiers, sailors, regiments, and battles, as well as prisoner-of-war records and cemetery records, will
be added over time.
The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System (CWSS) is a cooperative effort by the National Park Service
(NPS) and several other public and private partners, to computerize information about the Civil War. The
goal of the CWSS is to increase the American people's understanding of this decisive era in American
history by making information about it widely accessible. The CWSS will enable the public to make a
personal link between themselves and history.
National Park Service Historical & Genealogical Research
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http://www.nps.gov/frsp/archive.htm
Library of Congress Civil War Maps
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/collections/civil_war_maps/
The United States Army Military History Institute
http://www.carlisle.army.mil/ahec/USAMHI/default.cfm
National Civil War Museum
http://www.nationalcivilwarmuseum.org/index_1.php
Iowa in the Civil War http://iagenweb.org/civilwar/county/
eHistory Archive http://ehistory.osu.edu/uscw/index.cfm
Civil War Roosters by State http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Lair/3680/cw/cw.html
Cindi’s List for Civil War http://www.cyndislist.com/cw.htm
The Battle of Champion Hill http://battleofchampionhill.org/
The American Civil War Homepage http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/warweb.html
The Civil War Period in Nevada http://www.nevada-history.org/civil_war.html
U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center http://www.carlisle.army.mil/ahec/index.cfm
LSU Libraries Special Collections http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/
Seeking Michigan http://seekingmichigan.org/
(Civil War Service Records The records document the history of Michigan soldiers in the form of muster rolls,
letters, lists of dead, monthly returns and other materials sent to the state Adjutant General during the war.
Funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.)
Pennsylvania State Archives
http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp?view=ArchiveIndexes&ArchiveID=17
(Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866 Indexes)
Pennsylvania Volunteers of the Civil War http://www.pacivilwar.com/
Iowa in the Civil War Project http://iagenweb.org/civilwar/
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37th Regiment Iowa Volunteer aka Graybeards
http://iagenweb.org/benton/civil_war/37th/37th-history.htm
USGenWeb Civil War Pension Project
http://www.usgwarchives.net/pensions/civilwar/index.htm
MILITARY -- Casualties, Musters, Regimental Histories
http://www.evendon.net/PGHLookups/MilitaryM.htm
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