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Fold3 - Civil War Service Records $

Fold3 is an online repository for original historical documents, combined with the ability for users to make comments, annotations, and upload their own documents. The focus of Fold3 is to be a comprehensive collection of U.S. Military records. Some areas of Fold3 are free to use, while others can be freely searched and then viewed with a paid subscription.

Genealogical Tips from NEHGS: Civil War Pension Research: Union Soldiers

A tutorial with slides, narrated by David Allen Lambert

Genealogy Notes: The National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers

Online article from Prologue - the quarterly of the National Archives and Records Administration.

Genealogy Quest - Deaths Reported in The New South Newspaper

23 August 1862 through 6 November 1863.

Genealogy Quest - District of Columbia Claims

A list of people from Washington, DC who made successful claims that they furnished quartermaster stores or supplies to the Union Army during the Civil War, along with the amount allowed to them.

Genealogy Quest - Kentucky Claims

A list of people from Kentucky who made successful claims that they furnished quartermaster stores or supplies to the Union Army during the Civil War.

Genealogy Quest - Prisoners of War Deceased in Richmond

Prisoners of War Deceased in Richmond Since 1 August 1861, as reported in the National Intelligencer Newspaper on 7 January 1862.

Genealogy Today - Search Records from Salt Ration Lists | Civil War History

Locate heads of households, the number of children and how much salt was given to each.

GenealogyBank.com - Search Historical Documents 1789-1980 $

Find military records, casualty lists, Revolutionary and Civil War pension requests, widow's claims, orphan petitions, land grants and much more including all of the American State Papers (1789-1838) and all genealogical content carefully selected from the U.S. Serial Set (1817-1980). More than 133,000 reports, lists and documents. New content added monthly.

Georgia Civil War Pension Records

A community service project to digitize the microfilm associated with the pension applications of Georgia's Confederate soldiers and their widows.

Gopher Records - Confederate Pensions

Guide to Researching Southern Claims Commission Records

From the St. Louis County Library. Information for researching a Southern Claims Commission claim and provides an overview of Southern Claims Commission resources.

How to Order Civil War Pension Records - Union & Confederate

Basic research guide for finding Civil War pension records with links to online indexes.

Howard County Civil War/WWI Military Discharge Index

From the Howard County Memory Project, Indiana.

Howard County Memory Project - Pensioners on the Roll - January 1, 1883

Extracted Indiana Counties: Carroll, Cass, Clinton, Grant, Howard, Miami and Tipton.

Index to Confederate Pension Applications

Texas.

Index to Oklahoma Confederate Pension Records

Indiana Soldier's and Sailor's Children's Home

Indiana. Online searchable database from the Indiana State Archives.

Lake County CA Archives Military Records.....1883 Pensioners On The Roll

This list is taken from the official Pension Roll of 1883, the major genealogical source for Civil War and War of 1812 pensioners. Pensioners are listed by post office address, and in no apparent order after that.

Library of Virginia - Civil War Research Guide