Online Civil War Indexes, Records and Rosters

A Genealogy Guide

• The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System indexes about 6.3 million Civil War soldiers
• An alternate version of this database can be found at FamilySearch here: United States Civil War Soldiers Index

• Ancestry's Civil War Collection (requires payment) includes...
  • U.S. Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles over 4 million entries
  • Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934 - Union (nearly 2.5 million entries) from National Archives Microfilm Publication T288
  • Civil War Draft Registrations Records, 1863-1865 (Union)
  • Civil War Prisoner of War Records, 1861-1865
  • U.S. Army, Register of Enlistments, 1798-1914 includes the Civil War era (Union) from National Archives Microfilm Publication M233
  • U.S. Colored Troops Military Service Records, 1861-1865
  • Headstones Provided for Deceased Union Civil War Veterans, 1879-1903 over 166,000 entries
  • National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, 1866-1938
  • Gravestone Photographs for 34 National (Military) Cemeteries
  • Some Pension and Service Records Indexes, and Records and Indexes for Some Individual States
  • A subscription also includes the 1890 Veterans Census listed next...

• 1890 Census of Civil War Union Veterans and Widows
  • 1890 Civil War Union Veterans and Widows Census Schedules (requires payment - part of an Ancestry subscription) includes online digitized census images from National Archives Microfilm Publication M123 - 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 and Wyoming
  • United States Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War, 1890 at FamilySearch free; index and images; from National Archives Microfilm Publication M123

• Civil War Records and Documents Online at Fold3 (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)
  • Civil War Widows Pensions (about 21% complete)
  • Confederate Soldier Service Records for Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina (not yet complete), Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and Confederate Officers
  • Union Soldier Service Records for Alabama, Arkansas, Dakota Territory, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, and Colored Troops
  • 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
  • Confederate Citizens File (M346) - Papers relating to citizens or business firms, 1861-65
  • 1860 U.S. Federal Census Index and Census Images (M653)
  • Lincoln Assassination Papers (M599) and more

• The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies searchable multi-volume scanned Civil War book series

• United States Veterans Administration Pension Payment Cards, 1907-1933 at FamilySearch. From National Archives (NARA) microfilm publication M850. This database has indexed images of cards used by the Bureau of Pensions and Veterans Administration to record the payment of pensions to veterans, or their widows or other dependents. Includes some (but not all) Union veterans.
• United States Remarried Widows Index to Pension Applications, 1887-1942 at FamilySearch; from NARA microfilm publications M1784 and M1785
• United States Confederate Officers Card Index, 1861-1865 at FamilySearch

• Cemeteries and Headstones - also see the state listings below
  • Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War National Graves Registration Database not complete, but has many entries; includes some Confederate veterans
  • United States Records of Headstones of Deceased Union Veterans, 1879-1903 at FamilySearch; from National Archives microfilm publication M1845 - "Card Records of Headstones Provided for Deceased Union Civil War Veterans, ca. 1879 - ca. 1903"; has 166,000 entries

• National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers
  • United States National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, 1866-1938 at FamilySearch; partial index of historical registers of residents for twelve regional homes; from National Archives microfilm publication M1749
  • U.S. National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, 1866-1938 at Ancestry/requires payment

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama (at Fold 3) 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 Muster Rolls, 1861-1865 (at Ancestry/requires payment)
• Alabama, Confederate Pension and Service Records, 1862-1947 (at Ancestry/requires payment)
• Alabama, Census of Confederate Soldiers, 1907, 1921 (at Ancestry/requires payment)
  • The above 3 databases are included in a subscription to Ancestry's genealogy records collection
• Alabama Civil War Service Cards Database
• Alabama, Census of Confederate Veterans, 1907, 1921, 1927 from FamilySearch
• Alabama, Confederate Pension Applications, ca. 1880-1930's from FamilySearch
• Links to Alabama Civil War Units - With Muster Rolls and Rosters
• 1st Alabama Cavalry, United States Volunteers (Union) includes a searchable roster

• Arkansas Confederate Civil War Service Records (at Fold3) contains scanned documents of the service records from National Archives microfilm publication M317 (you can obtain copies of the records online for a fee) note: some service records can be 20-30 pages long

• Arkansas Confederate Pensions, 1901-1929 at FamilySearch
• Arkansas Ex-Confederate Pension Records, 1891-1939 at FamilySearch
• Arkansas Confederate Pension Records Index and Confederate Home Records Index
• Arkansas Confederate Pension Records Index, 1891-1935 (at Ancestry/requires payment)

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

• Colorado State Archives Civil War Indexes includes...
  • Colorado Volunteers Transcript of Record Index (1861-1865)
  • Colorado Civil War Casualties
  • Colorado Veterans Grave Registration Index
• Colorado Civil War Veterans (Grand Army of the Republic members only)
• Colorado Territory Civil War Volunteer Records

• 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)
• Connecticut Civil War Manuscripts Project from the Connecticut Historical Society Library

• Delaware: Records Related to Delaware's Involvement in the American Civil War from the Delaware Public Archives
• Delaware Roster of Union Soldiers

• Florida Confederate Civil War Service Records (at Fold3) contains scanned documents of the service records from National Archives microfilm publication M251 (you can obtain copies of the records online for a fee) note: some service records can be 20-30 pages long
• Florida Confederate Veterans and Widows Pension Applications, 1885-1955 at FamilySearch
• Florida Confederate Pension Application Files also has Old Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Home Applications

• Georgia Confederate Civil War Service Records (at Fold3) 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

• Georgia Confederate Pension Applications, 1879-1960 (at Ancestry/requires payment) includes digitized images of the pension records
• Georgia Civil War Muster Rolls, 1860-1864 (at Ancestry/requires payment) includes digitized images
• Georgia Confederate Pension Rolls, 1879-1920 from FamilySearch

• Georgia State Archives Civil War Records includes...
  • Georgia Confederate Pension Applications, 1879-1960
  • Georgia Confederate Pension Application Supplements
  • Georgia Confederate Enlistment Oaths and Discharges
  • Georgia Confederate Muster Rolls
  • Fulton County: Oakland Cemetery Book, Atlanta, Georgia scanned book of Confederate soldiers buried in Oakland Cemetery between February, 1862 and July 5, 1864

• 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 in the Civil War includes Illinois Civil War rosters
• Illinois: Photographs of Civil War Soldiers ongoing project; does not have photos of every soldier; from the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library in Springfield, Illinois
• 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
• Register of Confederate Soldiers Who Died in Camp Douglas, 1862-65 and Lie Buried in Oakwoods Cemetery, Chicago, Ills., 1892 scanned book at Archive.org

• Indiana Civil War Muster Rolls Index (213,000 entries; from the Indiana State Digital Archives)
• Indiana Civil War Service Records Index - Union at Fold3/requires payment; from National Archives microfilm publication M540: Alphabetical card index to the compiled service records of volunteer Union soldiers belonging to units from the State of Indiana.

• Iowa Civil War Soldier Burial Records (requires payment - part of an Ancestry subscription) 18,800 listings
• Iowa, Records of Persons Subject to Military Duty, 1862-1910 from FamilySearch
• Iowa Grand Army of the Republic Membership Records, 1861-1949 from FamilySearch

• Kansas Civil War and Military Index includes...
  • Civil War Veterans in Kansas
  • Kansas Adjutant General's Report, 1861-1865
  • Necrology of the Grand Army of the Republic

• Kansas Civil War Records at Ancestry (these require payment)...
  • Kansas Civil War Enlistment Papers, 1862, 1863, 1868
  • Kansas Enrollment of Civil War Veterans, 1889
  • Kansas Grand Army of the Republic Post Reports, 1880-1940 Veterans Organization for Union Soldiers

• Kansas Virtual Civil War Cemetery - Tombstone Photos not complete, but has over 20,000 photographs of grave markers of Civil War veterans buried in Kansas - searchable by name

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky (at Fold3) contains scanned documents of the service records from National Archives microfilm publication M319 (you can obtain copies of the records online for a fee)
• Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky (at Fold3) contains scanned documents of the service records from National Archives microfilm publication M397 (you can obtain copies of the records online for a fee)
• Note: some service records can be 20-30 pages long.

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

• Kentucky Confederate Pension Applications, 1912-1950 at FamilySearch
• Records of Death and Interment at Camp Nelson, KY, 1864-1865
• Battle of Perryville Casualty Database ongoing project

• Louisiana Confederate Civil War Service Records (at Fold3) contains scanned documents of the service records from National Archives microfilm publication M320 (you can obtain copies of the records online for a fee) note: some service records can be 20-30 pages long
• Louisiana Confederate Pension Applications Index Database
• Louisiana Confederate Pensions, 1898-1950 from FamilySearch; not indexed, but the images are arranged alphabetically
• 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

• Maine Civil War Era Soldiers 2500 digitized images of veterans of the Civil War from the Maine State Archives
• Maine Civil War Enlistment Papers, 1862-1865 from FamilySearch
• Maine State Archive Collections, 1718-1957 from FamilySearch; includes a Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Card Index, 1861-1865 (also has a WWI Card Index)

• History and Roster of Maryland Volunteers, War of 1861-5 Volumes 1 & 2 also has some records of Maryland Confederate soldiers
• Maryland Confederate Civil War Service Records (at Fold3) contains scanned documents of the service records from National Archives microfilm publication M321 (you can obtain copies of the records online for a fee) note: some service records can be 20-30 pages long
• Antietam National Cemetery Burials in Washington County, Maryland
• Antietam National Cemetery Burials, 1867; and 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
• Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Massachusetts (at Fold3) (fee-based) Includes scanned copies of the service records that can be obtained online for a fee. Note: some service records can be 20-30 pages long.
• Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War searchable scanned book (requires payment - part of an Ancestry subscription)
• Middlesex County: Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Mustered out from Lowell, Massachusetts also has a list of Civil War veterans buried in Lowell Cemetery

• Michigan Civil War Records and Photos from Michiganology
• Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War, 1861-1865 (requires payment - part of an Ancestry subscription) scanned searchable book
• Michigan Civil War Veterans Burial Records at FamilySearch; compiled by the Michigan Civil War Centennial Observance Commission Committee on Civil War Grave Registration
• Michigan, Grand Army of the Republic (GAR), Cemetery Index, 1799-1999 from FamilySearch
• Department of Michigan, Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War includes databases for graves and GAR records
• Michigan, Grand Army of the Republic Membership Records, 1876-1945 at FamilySearch
• Michigan Civil War Principals and Substitutes Index index of men who hired substitutes during the war

• Minnesota Civil War Records, 1861-1865 (at Ancestry/requires payment) includes digitized images of the records
• Minnesota Grand Army of the Republic Membership Records, 1869-1940 at FamilySearch

• Mississippi Confederate Civil War Service Records (at Fold3) contains scanned documents of the service records from National Archives microfilm publication M269 (you can obtain copies of the records online for a fee) note: some service records can be 20-30 pages long
• Mississippi Confederate Grave Registry
• Mississippi Confederate Pension Applications, 1889-1932 (about 36,000 applications arranged alphabetically by name)
• Mississippi Confederate Veterans and Widows Pension Applications, 1900-1974
• Mississippi African American Confederate Pension Application Search
• Beauvoir Confederate Cemetery

• Missouri Soldiers Database includes 380,000 listings for the Civil War

• Compiled Service Records Online from Fold3 (fee-based)...
  • Confederate: Missouri Confederate Civil War Service Records contains scanned documents of the service records from National Archives microfilm publication M322 (you can obtain copies of the records online for a fee) note: some service records can be 20-30 pages long
  • Union: Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations From the State of Missouri contains scanned documents of the service records from National Archives microfilm publication M405 (you can obtain copies of the records online for a fee) note: some service records can be 20-30 pages long

• Missouri Digital Heritage Civil War Collection highlights include...
  • State Historical Society of Missouri - Civil War eBook Collection includes...
    • Union Burials: Missouri Units (3 volumes in 1) scanned book
    • Index to Missouri Military Pensioners, 1883 scanned book
    • And other items
  • State Historical Society of Missouri: The Civil War in Missouri digital collection of letters, diaries, and newspaper articles; also has the text of some Civil War books
  • Missouri Veterans Home (St. James) Inmate Registers a home established for Union veterans in 1894

• Missouri Confederate Pension Applications and Soldiers Home Applications, 1911-1938 from FamilySearch
• 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 (from NARA Microfilm Publication M1894)
• Grand Army of the Republic...
  • Grand Army of the Republic - Missouri Division - Index to Death Rolls, 1882-1940 scanned book
  • Roster of the Department of Missouri, Grand Army of the Republic, and Its Auxiliaries, 1895
• St. Louis...
  • St. Louis: Index to the List of Union Veterans Buried in and about St. Louis compiled by the Sons of Veterans, General Memorial Day Committee
  • St. Louis: Grand Army of the Republic 1905 Index from the St. Louis Genealogical Society
  • St. Louis: Civil War Substitutes in St. Louis PDF list of men in North St. Louis and St. Louis County who provided substitutes to avoid military service; from the St. Louis Genealogical Society
• Ironton County: Soldiers' Deaths and Burials in the Arcadia Valley, 1861-1865 PDF
• The Civil War in Missouri includes...
  • Missouri Men Who Served in Illinois Civil War Regiments
  • Missouri Men Who Served in Kansas Civil War Regiments

• Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations From the Territory of Nebraska (at Fold3) from National Archives Microfilm Publication M1787 (you can download digitized copies of the service records for a fee)

• Nebraska Civil War Grand Army of the Republic Members Index and Nebraska Civil War Veterans' Data
• Nebraska Civil War Veterans Database
• Nebraska Grand Army of the Republic Burial Records, 1861-1948 from FamilySearch; burial records of Union Civil War veterans living in Nebraska
• 1893 Nebraska Census of Civil War Veterans

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

• New Hampshire Civil War Service and Pension Records, 1861-1866 from FamilySearch

• New Jersey State Archives Civil War Databases includes...
  • Civil War Service Records, 1861-1865 (William S. Stryker's Record of Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Civil War 1861-1865)
  • New Jersey Civil War Payment Vouchers, 1861-1865
• New Jersey Civil War Gravestones Database

• New York Civil War Databases at Ancestry (these require payment)...
  • New York, Town Clerks' Registers of Men Who Served in the Civil War, ca 1861-1865
  • New York, Civil War Muster Roll Abstracts, 1861-1900
  • New York, Veteran Burial Cards, 1861-1898
  • New York, Grand Army of the Republic Records, 1866-1931
• New York State Archives Civil War Soldier Index Search
• Civil War Union Service Records Index for New York at Fold3 (requires payment) from National Archives Microfilm Publication M551
• New York Civil War Regiment Lists at Fold3 (requires payment)

• North Carolina Confederate Civil War Service Records (at Fold3) 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

• North Carolina Confederate Pension Applications, 1885 and 1901
• North Carolina, Civil War Confederate Soldiers and Widows Pension Applications, 1885-1953 at FamilySearch (browsable images)

• North Carolina Confederate Soldiers Burial Database not complete
• Wake County: Confederate Burials at Oakwood Cemetery, Raleigh, NC

• Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865, Vols. 1-12 (requires payment - part of an Ancestry subscription) scanned searchable books
• Ohio, Veterans Home Deaths and Burials, 1889-1930 at FamilySearch; Card index from the Ohio Veterans Home in Sandusky, Ohio; the home included Union troops from throughout the US.
• 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
• Index to Ohio Prisoners at Andersonville, Georgia, and Salisbury, North Carolina Prisons, 1864-1865

• Oklahoma Confederate Pension Records

• Oregon, Grand Army of the Republic Membership Records, 1870-1930 from FamilySearch

• Pennsylvania, Veterans Card Files, 1775-1916 (at Ancestry/requires payment) includes Civil War Veterans Card File, 1861-1866, with digitized images of the cards
• Pennsylvania Civil War Veterans' Card File Index, 1861-1866
• Pennsylvania Civil War Muster Rolls, 1860-1869 (at Ancestry/requires payment)
• Pennsylvania Civil War Burial Index (downloadable PDF files)
• Pennsylvania Grand Army of the Republic Membership Records, 1865-1936 from FamilySearch
• Pennsylvania, Register of Military Volunteers, 1861-1865 from FamilySearch
• Pennsylvania Civil War Era Newspapers - Digitized and Searchable a project of Penn State University
• Registers of Pennsylvania Civil War Volunteers, 1861-1865 PDF images (not indexed)
• History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-5 by Samuel P. Bates scanned searchable books; 5 volumes

• South Carolina Confederate Civil War Service Records (at Fold3) contains scanned documents of the service records from National Archives microfilm publication M267 (you can obtain copies of the records online for a fee) note: some service records can be 20-30 pages long (this database is about 99% complete)
• South Carolina: Records of Confederate Veterans (includes Confederate Pension Applications) (with digital images)
• Confederate Rolls of South Carolina
• The New South Newspaper 1862-1866, Port Royal and Beaufort, South Carolina digitized and searchable

• Special Census of Civil War Veterans Living in Dakota Territory (South Dakota) in 1885 also has a WPA Veterans Cemetery Index for many South Dakota counties

• Tennessee Confederate Civil War Service Records (at Fold3) contains scanned documents of the service records from National Archives microfilm publication M268 (you can obtain copies of the records online for a fee) note: some service records can be 20-30 pages long

• 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
  • Burial Records of Federal Soldiers by W.R. Cornelius and Company - indexes 4900 mostly Union Civil War soldiers buried in Nashville
• 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 (at Fold3) 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 Pension Applications, 1899-1975 (at Ancestry/requires payment) includes digitized images (for veterans or their widows resident in Texas since 1880 who were disabled or indigent)
• Texas Muster Roll Index Cards, 1838-1900 (at Ancestry/requires payment) includes digitized images of the index cards
• Texas, Confederate Army and Commanding Officer Card Index, ca.1861-ca.1865 at FamilySearch

• Texas Civil War Indexes from the Texas State Library includes...
  • Texas Confederate Pensions Index
  • Texas Confederate Indigent Families Index 1863-1865
  • Texas Adjutant General Service Records Index (includes some Civil War era records)

• United Confederate Veterans Robert E. Lee Camp No. 158 in Fort Worth (scanned images) from the Fort Worth Library Digital Archives; "...includes descriptive lists, rosters, applications for honors, minutes, reports, correspondence, burial records and muster rolls."

• Utah, Grand Army of the Republic Membership Records, 1879-1934 at FamilySearch an organization for Union army and navy Civil War veterans

• 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 (at Fold3) 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

• Confederate Pension Records, 1884-1958 for Virginia (and Texas) (at Ancestry/requires payment) includes digitized images

• Library of Virginia Online Military Records Indexes...
  • Confederate Navy, Electronic Card Index
  • Virginia Military Dead Database

• Virginia Memory - Military Service Collection includes...
  • Confederate Disability Applications and Receipts
  • Confederate Pension Rolls, Veterans and Widows
  • Robert E. Lee Camp Confederate Soldiers' Home Applications for Admission

• Alexandria Library Local History and Special Collections Military includes...
  • Alexandria, Virginia National Cemetery Civil War Era Burials
  • Northern Virginia 1890 Veterans Census -- Union (and some Confederate) Veterans or their Widows
  • Oath of Allegiance in Virginia, 1862-1865 (index of those who signed an oath of allegiance to the Union during and after the Civil War)
  • Volunteers for Freedom: Black Civil War Soldiers in Alexandria National Cemetery

• Virginia Military Institute Archives - Historical Rosters Database 1839-1925 biographical information about cadets who attended the VMI, Lexington, VA
• Virginia, United Daughters of the Confederacy, Applications for the Relief of Needy Confederate Women, 1915-1967 at FamilySearch
• 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

• Virginia Civil War-era Cemeteries...
  • For some Civil War cemetery burials in Virginia, see: Online Virginia Death Records Indexes and Cemeteries

• Civil War Veterans Buried In Washington State

• West Virginia Civil War Union Service Records (at Fold3) from National Archives microfilm publication M508 (searches are free; requires payment to download copies of the records)
• West Virginia Union Militia in the Civil War

• Wisconsin in the Civil War Database from the Wisconsin Historical Society
• Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865 (at Ancestry/requires payment)
• Wisconsin Genealogy Civil War Database

• Jewish-American Civil War Veterans Union and Confederate (at Ancestry; requires registration)
• Norwegians in the Civil War Database

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