Civil War Soldiers and Sailors on the Internet

FINDING CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS ON THE INTERNET

Ted Bainbridge, Ph.D.

March 2014

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CONTENTS - CLICK ANY ITEM TO GO THERE

The Comprehensive Index Sites

Libraries and Archives Near Longmont

Search Engines and Advice

All States

All Union States

Specific Union States

California

Colorado

Connecticut

Delaware

Illinois

Indiana

Iowa

Kansas

Kentucky

Maine

Maryland

Massachusetts

Michigan

Minnesota

Missouri

New Hampshire

New Jersey

New York

Ohio

Oregon

Pennsylvania

Rhode Island

Vermont

West Virginia

Wisconsin

All Confederate States

Specific Confederate States

Alabama

Arkansas

Florida

Georgia

Louisiana

Mississippi

North Carolina

South Carolina

Tennessee

Texas

Virginia

The Comprehensive Index Sites

Soldiers & Sailors System (free site):

Go to

Choose Soldiers, type a full name or a surname, then click Submit Query.

Click a name to see information about that person.

Ancestry (pay site but free at Family History Center):

If you are a member, go to

and sign in.

The Longmont Family History Center’s computer desktop should show

the “Family History Center Portal” by default. If it does not, click the

Internet Explorer icon on the desktop and the Portal will appear.

Select Premium Family History Websites, then Ancestry.

Choose Search, then Card Catalog.

In Keyword(s) put civil war and hit Search.

Choose U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865 and enter a name or surname.

Click Search.

Click View Record to see details about a person.

Go back to the card catalog and select American Civil War Soldiers then

search in the same way.

Return to the card catalog and similarly search each item of interest.

National Archives (free site):

Their site does not provide an index to service or pension records.

Instead, they refer you to Ancestry’s Civil War Pension Index at

Alexander Street Press (pay site but free at Family History Center):

The Longmont Family History Center’s computer desktop should show

the “Family History Center Portal” by default. If it does not, click the

Internet Explorer icon on the desktop and the Portal will appear.

Select Premium Family History Websites.

Select Alexander Street Press Research Database.

Click Soldiers. This takes you to a search screen.

Type what you want to find, then click Search. You will see a hit list.

Click a name to see that soldier’s data.

Click the soldier’s unit to see information about that unit.

Click Roster to see the unit roster.

Also click Battles to see battles the unit was in.

Click a battle to see facts and a description of the action.

Click Regiments to see all the units that participated in that battle.

Click another unit name, then Roster to see names of other men who

were in that battle.

Footnote (renamed Fold3) (pay site but free at Family History Center):

The Longmont Family History Center’s computer desktop should show

the “Family History Center Portal” by default. If it does not, click the

Internet Explorer icon on the desktop and the Portal will appear.

Select Premium Family History Websites, then Fold3.com.

Select Civil War and Later Veterans Pension Index.

Fill in the search box, then click Search to get a hit list.

Click a miniature image to see that person’s index card.

Click Download then Entire Image if you want to save the image.

Return to Footnote/Fold3’s list of items and select Civil War Confederate

Amnesty Papers.

American Wars 101 (free site):

SEARCH:

Go to

Type a name in the search box.

Click Search to see a list of the types of records found.

Select Civil War and Later Veterans Pensions Index.

(Later, select Civil War Widows’ Pensions and search in the same way).

A hit list appears.

AND/OR BROWSE:

Click a state to browse.

Drill down through the kind of unit, the regiment number, and the

company letter.

When you select a company, a hit list appears.

THEN AFTER EITHER PROCESS:

If you are not working from the Family History Center and are a paid

subscriber to Footnote/Fold3, sign in.

Look through the hit list and click the miniature of the image you want

to see.

You can print the image or save it to your hard disk or thumb drive.

Family Search (free site):

Go to Family Search’s Civil War Pension Index Cards at

Searches are approximate; for an exact search, click Advanced Search,

then click the box beside each term you want to be exact.

Fill in the search boxes and click Search. A hit list appears.

Click the name you want.

A typed transcript of the pension index card appears.

If you want to print the information, select Print.

If you want an image of the original index card, click View Image. That

will take you into Footnote/Fold3.

Use the Footnote/Fold3 procedures to see, print, or save the image.

Libraries and Archives Near Longmont

BOULDER:

card catalog

Civil War holdings

DENVER:

cardcatalog

Civil War holdings

FAMILY HISTORY LIBRARY:

Card catalog

Civil War collection

LONGMONT:

card catalog

Civil War holdings

use worldcat.org to find items for interlibrary loan (ILL)

NATIONAL ARCHIVES DENVER:

Civil War holdings

compiling a soldier’s history

Confederate records

contact information

home page

hours

introduction to Civil War records

Confederate state pension records

map to their buildings in Denver

microfilm and genealogy room

Pennsylvania

Union records

U. OF COL. AT BOULDER:

card catalog

Civil War holdings

Search Engines and Advice

The L.D.S. Church’s Family History Centers are free to everyone. Free individualized help is available as requested. They pay annual fees for many pay sites and let you use those sites over their internet hookups for free. Find a FHC near you here

SEARCH ENGINES:

Google

Yahoo

Bing

meta-search engines

meta-meta-search engine

Access Genealogy

Civil War Service Records Research Guide

Civil War Soldier Search

Cyndi’s List

Ancestry.com

some of Ancestry’s data sets:

U.S. Civil War Soldiers 1861-1865

American Civil War Soldiers

U.S. Civil War Soldier Rec. & Pro.

American Civil War Regiments

Civil War Prisoner of War Record

Confederate Service Records

their list of Confederate data sets

they have many other data sets

Family Tree Magazine’s “toolkit”

Family Tree Magazine’s “Resources”

Illinois In the Civil War

Jack Masters

National Genealogical Society

Netplaces Online Genealogy

Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County

LIBRARY OF VIRGINIA RESEARCH GUIDES:

Prisons

Medicine

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA RESEARCH GUIDES:

Civil War

Civil War Images

Civil War Maps

All States

( click any item to go there )

ANCESTRY.COM DATA SETS

BATTLES - LISTS AND

CHRONOLOGIES

BATTLES - MAPS, DESCRIPTIONS, AND CASUALTY NUMBERS

BLACK SOLDIERS AND UNITS

CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS

LINEAGE SOCIETIES

MAP COLLECTIONS

NEWSPAPERS

PAROLES AND EXCHANGES

PENSIONS

PHOTOS - SEARCH ENGINES AND ADVICE ABOUT FINDING

PHOTOS - COLLECTIONS

PRISONS, PRISONERS, AND PAROLES

PRISONS AND PRISONERS

IN NORTH AND SOUTH

PRISONS AND PRISONERS

IN THE NORTH

PRISONS AND PRISONERS

IN THE SOUTH

RECORDS

SOLDIERS’ LIVES - FOOD

SOLDIERS’ LIVES - LIVING IN CAMP AND IN THE FIELD

SOLDIERS’ LIVES - MEDICINE, SURGERY, HOSPITALS, DOCTORS, AND NURSES

STATE ORGANIZATIONS

UNIT HISTORIES AND ROSTERS

WOMEN

WOMEN NURSES AND DOCTORS

WOMEN SOLDIERS

OTHER

ANCESTRY.COM DATA SETS

1890 lists of veterans & widows

card catalog

Civil War collection

black units and troops

military collection - Civil War

prisoners of war

soldier records and profiles

Stories of the Blue and Gray

United Kingdom census collection

United States census collection

National Park Service’s Battlefield Protection Program

burials

U.S. Civil War Soldiers 1861-1865

American Civil War Soldiers

U.S. Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles

U.S. Colored Troops Military Service Records 1861-1865

Confederate Service Records 1861-1865

Confederate Applications for Presidential Pardons 1865-1867

BATTLES - LISTS AND

CHRONOLOGIES

Alphabetic List of Battles

Chronology

American Civil War

Time Line of the Civil War

History Place

Timeline and Associated Statistics

Civil War Academy

Civil War Guide

Gettysburg Time Line

Spartacus Educational

(chronology, battles, political leaders, military leaders)

Civil War Collection at Penn State

Civil War Era Web-Based Primary Materials

BATTLES - MAPS, DESCRIPTIONS, AND CASUALTY NUMBERS

Casualties Week By Week

extensive list of battles

Antietam 26,000 casualties

Appomattox 28,000 casualties

Atlanta 12,000 casualties

Carlisle 21 casualties

Chancellorsville 30,000 casualties

Chickamauga 35,000 casualties

Cold Harbor 17,000 casualties

First Bull Run 5,000 casualties

Five_Forks 4,000 casualties

Fort Donelson 19,000 casualties

Fort_Pillow 700 casualties

Fort_Sumter 15 casualties

Fredricksburg 18,000 casualties

Gettysburg 51,000 casualties

Jenkins’_Ferry 2,000 casualties

Kennesaw_Mountain 4,000 casualties

Marks’_Mills 2,000 casualties

Memphis 200 casualties

Nashville 9,000 casualties

New_Orleans no casualties

New York City Draft_Riots 10,000 casualties

Picacho_Pass 11 casualties

Sayler’s_Creek 9,000 casualties

Second Bull Run 25,000 casualties

Seven Days Battles 36,000 casualties

Seven Pines 11,000 casualties

Shiloh 24,000 casualties

South_Mountain 5,000 casualties

Spotsylvania 32,000 casualties

Stones River 25,000 casualties

Tucson no casualties

Wilderness 29,000 casualties

For other battles, go to Wikipedia and in the search box at upper right, put “battle of ” without quotes followed by the name of the battle.

BLACK SOLDIERS AND UNITS

African American Civil War Museum (Washington DC)

Soldiers & Sailors System

Ancestry

Footnote/Fold3

American Wars 101

Family Search

National Archives

The Civil War Archive

Confederate

Union black troops liberating slaves

Freedom Fighters

United States Colored Troops

More United States Colored Troops

U.S. Colored Troops

U.S.C.T. Living History Association

NY State’s Civil War - U.S.C.T.

Lest We Forget

3rd Regiment U.S.C.T.

3rd Regiment U.S.C.T. (another site)

5th Regiment U.S.C.T.

5th Regiment Cavalry U.S.C.T.

6th Regiment U.S.C.T.

8th Regiment U.S.C.T.

29th U.S.C.T.

Soldiers of Glory: U.S.C.T.

African American Civ. War Soldiers

Monuments To the U.S.C.T.

flag of the 26th U.S.C.T.

Ohio African American Units

1st Kansas Colored Infantry

54th Massachusetts

(The unit in the movie GLORY)

CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS

COs in the Civil War

Pennsylvania Civil War CO Database

York County Pennsylvania COs

CO Position During the American Civil War

Pennsylvania Hist. and Museum Commission

Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania

Mennonites and Amish

Cyrus Pringle’s Diary

Pennsylvania

COs and the Civil War

Patriotism and Paradox (many source notes)

Quakers as Peacemakers

Quakes and the Civil War

Haverford College’s Quaker Collection

a Confederate prison symposium in 2011

Quakers and the Underground Railroad

LINEAGE SOCIETIES

Daughters of the American Revolution

D.A.R. Patriot Index

(Then takes several clicks to get to

the search screen.)

Sons of the American Revolution

S.A.R. Patriot Index

First Families of Pennsylvania - Approved Ancestors

MAP COLLECTIONS

University of Virginia Research Guide - Civil War Maps

(advice about finding maps)

Library of Congress

University of Georgia

Gilmer Confederate Collection

Slave Population by County in 1860

National Oceanic & Atmos. Admin.

more N.O.A.A.

Civil War Trust

Library of Virginia

Virginia Historical Society

U.S. Corps of Topograph. Engineers

Interactive Battle Map

David Rumsey Map Collection

Civil War Links

major battles and campaigns

NEWSPAPERS

Library of Congress

University of Texas at Tyler

Genealogy Bank

Harper’s Weekly

Ancestry Historical Newspapers

Middle Tennessee State University

University of Pennsylvania

American Antiquarian Society

Lehigh University

University of Maryland

Historical Newspapers and Indexes

University of Illinois

University of South Dakota

Villanova University

About.com’s Historical Newspapes Online

Library of Virginia

PAROLES AND EXCHANGES

parole certificate and signatures of General Lee and his staff

Confederate Amnesty Papers

Appomattox parole list (National Park Service)

Appomattox parole list (book)

Appomattox paroles

Appomattox parole replicas for sale

Johnston’s army’s parole papers

Vicksburg paroles

parole

parole system

Camp Parole at Annapolis

experiences at Camp Parole at Annapolis

Prisoners, Oaths, and Paroles (National Archives)

Chronology of the Prisoner of War Exchange and Parole Cartel

Confederate Parole Records Index (National Archives)

War Department Collection of Confederate Records (National Archives)

To see images of original parole documents, including those of named individuals, use Google and Yahoo and Bing to do an image search on “civil war parole” in quotes.

PENSIONS

Confederate pensions were paid by individual states, so those states’ pension records usually are good. Union pensions were paid by the national government, so those states’ pension records usually are not as good as the Confederate states’. You can request Union pensions from the National Archives.

Footnote/Fold3’s Civil War Pension Index (every index card, every person, every unit, every state)

Family Search’s pension index

U.S. Gen-Web Project pensions

then pick your state off of the list

Ancestry’s pension data sets

PHOTOS - SEARCH ENGINES AND ADVICE ABOUT FINDING

Google image search

Yahoo image search

then click “images” at top

Bing image search

Ohio Civil War Genealogy Journal

University of Virginia Research Guide - Civil War Images

Smithsonian’s Civil War

(then click Site Index)

Soldiers & Sailors System

PHOTOS - COLLECTIONS

Library of Congress photos of Civil War soldiers

American Memory

National Archives

Treasure Net

George Eastman House

Civil War Trust

U.S. Army Heritage Collections

Matthew Brady Collection #1

Matthew Brady Collection #2

Matthew Brady Collection #3 (free)

American Civil War Photo Gallery

Mike Lynaugh

Liljenquist Collection

Civil War Photo Gallery

Civil War Soldier Search

Indiana Soldiers By Regiment

Library of Cong. Prints and Photos

Southern Methodist University

Museum of the Confederacy

PRISONS, PRISONERS, AND PAROLES

Use Google and Yahoo and Bing to do a search and an image search on the full name of a prison or camp that interests you.

collection of photos - prisoners

prisons north and south

prisons

treatment of prisoners

prisoners

prisons and prisoners

prisons, paroles, and prisoners

prisons and cemeteries - large list with links

PRISONS AND PRISONERS

IN NORTH AND SOUTH

Library of Virginia research guide - prisons

Was Your Ancestor in a Civil War Prison?

WWW Guide to Civil War Prisons

Andersonville, Belle Isle, Blackshear, Castle Thunder, Chase, Douglas, Ford, Pinckney, Danville, Elmira, Delaware, Jefferson, McHenry, Johnson’s Island, Libby, Ohio State, Old Capitol, Point Lookout, Rock Island, Salisbury, and links by topic

Alton, Andersonville, Ford, Danville, Delaware, Gratiot Street men’s, Gratiot Street women’s, Libby, Salisbury

Ohio prisoners in Andersonville and Salisbury (contains many and diverse links)

Andersonville, Camp Chase, Elmira, Libby, and Old Capitol prisons

Alton, Andersonville, Chase, Ford, Elmira, Point Lookout, Rock Island, Salisbury

Alton, Andersonville, Cahaba, Castle Thunder, Curtin, Danville, Delaware, Douglas, Elmira, Florence, Gratiot Street, Johnson’s Island, Libby, McHenry, Morton, Old Capitol, Point Lookout, Rock Island, Salisbury

PRISONS AND PRISONERS

IN THE NORTH

Records of the Commissary General of Prisoners (National Archives)

Confederate prisoners from the National Archives

Alton Prison

Alton Prison, Cemetery, and prisoner list

Alton, Chase, Douglas, Randal, Elmira, Delaware, Jefferson, McHenry, Old Capitol, Point Lookout, Fort Riley

Arsenal Island (Illinois)

Butler, Douglas, Rock Island

Camp Morton (Indianapolis, Indiana)

Elmira

Elmira and prisoner list

a Confederate prisoner’s story (Elmira, New York)

Fort McHenry (Maryland)

Johnsons Island (Sandusky, Ohio)

Ohio

Old Capitol Prison (Washington)

Rock Island (Illinois)

PRISONS AND PRISONERS

IN THE SOUTH

Andersonville, Belle Isle, Cahaba, Ford, Pinckney, Castle Thunder, Danville, Libby, Salisbury

Andersonville (Georgia)

Andersonville

Andersonville / Camp Sumter

Andersonville prisoner database from the National Park Service

Abraham Tower paroled from Andersonville Prison

Joseph Rowe escaped from Andersonville

Belle Isle (Richmond, Virginia)

Blackshear (Georgia)

Camp Lawton, Andersonville

Camp Lawton

Fort Massachusetts / Ship Island Prison (Mississippi) imprisoned Confederate soldiers

Libby (Richmond, Virginia)

Salisbury Prison and National Cemetery, with prisoner list

Salisbury, North Carolina

Salisbury

Savannah, Georgia

RECORDS

Footnote/Fold3’s Civil War Records

Indexes & records for many kinds of records for all states and for specific states