Online Civil War Indexes, Records & Rosters

A Genealogy Guide

• The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System indexes about 6.3 million Civil War soldiers

• Ancestry's Civil War Collection (requires payment)
  includes pension & service records indexes, some service records summaries, some state rosters, and these 5 databases...
  • Civil War Service Records (Muster Rolls) over 5.3 million (requires payment)
  • Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934 - Union nearly 2.5 million entries (requires payment)
  • Civil War Prisoner of War Records, 1861-1865 (requires payment)
  • U.S. Army, Register of Enlistments, 1798-1914 (requires payment) includes the Civil War era (Union)
  • Headstones Provided for Deceased Union Civil War Veterans, 1879-1903 over 166,000 entries (requires payment)
  • A subscription also includes the 1890 Veterans Census listed next...

• 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

• Civil War Records and Documents Online at Footnote (copies of digitized documents can be downloaded for a fee) includes...
  • Civil War Pension Records Index for Union Soldiers (from National Archives Microfilm Publication T289) database is 92% complete
  • Confederate Soldier Service Records for Alabama, Texas and Virginia with Georgia and North Carolina currently being worked on (also see the state listings below for individual links to these)
  • Confederate Amnesty Papers (M1003)
  • Southern Claims Commission (M1407) - Records of Southerners who claimed compensation from the U.S. government in the 1870s for items used by the Union Army; 85% complete
  • Confederate Papers (M346) - Papers relating to citizens or business firms, 1861-65; 97% complete
  • 1860 U.S. Federal Census Index and Census Images (M653)
  • Lincoln Assassination Papers (M599) and more

• Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War National Graves Registration Database not complete, but has many entries; includes some Confederate veterans
• Civil War Cemeteries and Burials Project (partial)

• U.S. Colored Troops Military Service Records, 1861-1865 (requires payment - part of an Ancestry subscription)

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama contains scanned documents of the service records from National Archives microfilm publication M311 (you can download copies of the records online for a fee) note: some service records can be 20-30 pages long

• Alabama Civil War Service Database (surnames A-R)
• Links to Alabama Civil War Units - With Muster Rolls & Rosters
• 1st Alabama Cavalry, United States Volunteers (Union) includes a searchable roster

• Arkansas Confederate Pension Records Index and Confederate Home Records Index

• Records of California Men in the War of the Rebellion, 1861 to 1867 (requires payment - part of an Ancestry subscription)

• Colorado Civil War Volunteers (also includes a separate listing for the New Mexico Campaign of 1862)
• Colorado Civil War Veterans (Grand Army of the Republic members only)
• Colorado Civil War Casualties
• Colorado State Archives Veterans Graves Registrations 1862-1949

• Connecticut: Noble Pension Database (Civil War and Spanish American War)
• Connecticut: Fitch's Home for Soldiers - The Deceased Veterans Discharge Files 1882-1936 (Civil War and Spanish American War)

• Delaware Roster of Union Soldiers
• Delaware's United States Colored Troops

• Florida Confederate Pension Application Files

• Georgia Confederate Service Records contains scanned documents of the service records from National Archives microfilm publication M266 (you can obtain copies of the records online for a fee) note: some service records can be 20-30 pages long (this database is not yet complete, but more records are being added)

• Georgia State Archives Civil War Records includes...
  • Georgia Confederate Pension Records (not yet complete)
  • Confederate Enlistment Oaths and Discharges 1861-1865
  • Confederate Muster Rolls 1861-1865
  • Fulton County: Oakland Cemetery Book, Atlanta, Georgia scanned book of Confederate soldiers buried in Oakland Cemetery between February, 1862 and July 5, 1864
• Georgia Civil War Pension Records from Georgia State University (not all counties included)
• Georgia Confederate Veteran Grave Database work in progress
• Andersonville Prison - Search for Prisoners (Union Soldiers)
• Andersonville Prison: Prisoners of War (requires payment - part of an Ancestry subscription) 37,000 records of Union soldiers captured by the Confederate states

• Idaho Civil War Veterans

• Illinois Civil War Muster and Descriptive Rolls Database contains descriptive information on more than 285,000 soldiers from Illinois who served in the Union Army during the War of the Rebellion (Civil War)
• Illinois: 1929 Roll of Honor Database contains the burial locations of 72,000 Illinois veterans, many from the Civil War
• Illinois Civil War Rosters
• Rock Island County - Confederate Dead at Rock Island Prison (now called Arsenal Island)
• Alton, Illinois - Civil War Era - Confederate Prison includes a searchable database of Confederate Soldiers who died at the Alton Prison

• Iowa Civil War Soldier Burial Records (requires payment - part of an Ancestry subscription) 18,800 listings

• Civil War Veterans in Kansas Database (ongoing project)
• Index To Kansas Volunteer Regiment Enlistments 1861-1865
• Kansas: Necrology of the Grand Army of the Republic (13,000 death notices)
• Kansas Virtual Civil War Cemetery - Tombstone Photos not complete, but has over 11,000 photographs of grave markers of Civil War veterans buried in Kansas - searchable by name

• Kentucky Confederate Civil War Volunteers (requires payment - part of an Ancestry subscription)
• Kentucky Union Civil War Volunteers (requires payment - part of an Ancestry subscription)

• Records of Death and Interment at Camp Nelson, KY, 1864-1865

• Louisiana Confederate Pension Applications Index Database
• Louisiana: Census Enumeration of Ex-Confederate Soldiers and Widows of Deceased Soldiers in 1911 for Orleans Parish and 17 other Parishes
• Chalmette National Cemetery Union Burials also includes a list of Confederate burials moved from the cemetery

• History and Roster of Maryland Volunteers, War of 1861-5 Volumes 1 & 2 also has some records of Maryland Confederate soldiers
• Antietam National Cemetery Burials & Confederate Soldiers Killed at Antietam
• Fort McHenry Prison ("Baltimore Bastille") - Search For Prisoners (Confederate Soldiers)

• Massachusetts Civil War Research Center searchable database of 150,000 soldiers
• Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War searchable scanned book (requires payment - part of an Ancestry subscription)

• Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War 1861-1865 scanned searchable book (requires payment - part of an Ancestry subscription)
• Michigan Civil War Principals and Substitutes Index downloadable PDF files that index men who hired substitutes during the war

• Minnesota Civil War Soldiers (requires payment)

• Beauvoir Soldiers Home Veterans

• Missouri Soldiers Database includes 380,000 listings for the Civil War
• Annual Report of the Adjutant General of Missouri, December 31, 1863 report of Missouri troops for the year 1863 - online digitized book - searchable by name
• Missouri Men Who Served in Illinois Civil War Regiments
• Missouri Men Who Served in Kansas Civil War Regiments
• Missouri's Union Provost Marshal Papers 1861-1866
• Index to Descriptive Recruitment Lists of Volunteers for the United States Colored Troops for the State of Missouri, 1863-1865 (NARA Microfilm Publication M1894)

• Nebraska Civil War Grand Army of the Republic Members Index & Nebraska Civil War Veterans' Data
• Nebraska Civil War Veterans Database
• 1893 Nebraska Census of Civil War Veterans

• Nevada Civil War Volunteers (requires payment - part of an Ancestry subscription)

• New Jersey: Record of Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Civil War 1861-1865

• New York Civil War Database

• North Carolina Confederate Service Records contains scanned documents of the service records from National Archives microfilm publication M270 (you can obtain copies of the records online for a fee) note: some service records can be 20-30 pages long (this database is not yet complete, but more records are being added)

• Ohio Civil War Documents
• Ohio Civil War Roster this database contains the same data for Ohio as the national Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System, but here you can do soundex searches to help with alternate name spellings
• Links to Ohio Civil War Rosters
• Johnson's Island Civil War Confederate Prison Cemetery (Sandusky Bay, Lake Erie)
  • Also see: Depot of Prisoners of War, Johnson's Island, Sandusky Bay, Ohio

• Oklahoma: Index to Oklahoma's Confederate Pension Records (downloadable PDF file)

• Oregon: Index to 1890 Veterans Census

• Pennsylvania Civil War Veterans' Card File Index 1861-1866
• Pennsylvania Civil War Burial Index (downloadable PDF files)
• Pennsylvania Civil War Era Newspapers - Digitized and Searchable a project of Penn State University

• South Carolina Confederate Pension Applications 1919-1926 (includes digital images)

• Tennessee Civil War Records Indexes includes
  • Tennessee Confederate Civil War Pension Applications - Soldiers & Widows
  • Tennessee Confederate Physicians
  • Tennessee Confederate Soldiers' Home Applications
  • Tennessee Civil War Veterans' Questionnaires
  • Tennessee Southern Claims Commission Index 1871-1873 - lists 3,929 Tennesseans who claimed their property had been taken by United States military personnel for use in the Civil War
• Tennessee Civil War Confederate Pension Applications Index (requires payment - part of an Ancestry subscription)

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Texas scanned documents from National Archives microfilm publication M323 (you can obtain copies of the records online for a fee) note: Service Records can sometimes be 20 pages long or longer

• Texas Confederate Pensions
  • Texas Confederate Indigent Families 1863-1865
• Texas Adjutant General Service Records includes some Civil War era records

• Vermont in the Civil War includes rosters of Vermont units

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Virginia contains scanned documents of the service records from National Archives microfilm publication M324 (you can obtain copies of the records online for a fee) note: some service records can be 20-30 pages long

• Library of Virginia Online Military Records Indexes includes...
  • Confederate Disability Applications & Receipts
  • Confederate Pension Rolls, Veterans & Widows Database
  • Confederate Pension Rolls, Veterans & Widows Electronic Card Index
  • Robert E. Lee Camp Confederate Soldiers' Home Applications for Admission
  • Index to Virginia Confederate Rosters
  • Confederate Navy, Electronic Card Index
  • Index to Confederate Veteran Magazine
  • Virginia Military Dead Database - ongoing project
• Alexandria, Virginia National Cemetery Civil War Era Burials
• Northern Virginia 1890 Veterans Census Union Veterans & Widows of Union Veterans
• Virginia Military Institute Archives - Historical Rosters Database 1839-1925 biographical information about cadets who attended the VMI, Lexington, VA
• Valley of the Shadow Civil War Project includes records of Civil War soldiers & veterans from Augusta County, Virginia & Franklin County, Pennsylvania
• Richmond Daily Dispatch Newspaper - Civil War Period 1860-1865
• Online Virginia Death Records & Indexes includes some listings for Civil War burials

• West Virginia Union Militia in the Civil War

• Wisconsin: Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865
• This is also available as part of Ancestry's Family & Local Histories Collection...
  Roster of Wisconsin volunteers, War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865 (requires payment)

• Jewish-American Civil War Veterans both Union & Confederate
• Norwegians in the Civil War Database

• How to Order Civil War Pension Records - Union & Confederate

• Roll of Honor: Civil War Union Soldiers CD-Rom contains the names of 200,000 Union fatalities - for most listings the soldier's name, rank, regiment, company, date of death, and place of burial are included; indexed

• Civil War Research Guide: A Guide for Researching Your Civil War Ancestor by Stephen McManus, Donald Thompson, and Thomas Churchill
• Tracing Your Civil War Ancestor by Bertram Hawthorne Groene
• In Search of Confederate Ancestors: The Guide by J. H. Segars