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Chasing Civil War Ancestor resources:

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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

Prepared by Jeffrey Vaillant 20 July 2010 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/

Prepared by Jeffrey Vaillant 20 July 2010 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

Prepared by Jeffrey Vaillant 20 July 2010