Civil War - American

While many Union veterans received Civil War pensions from the U.S. federal government, Confederate pensions were granted by the various states. Learn where and how to locate Confederate pension records, both online and off.

Learn how to research your Civil War ancestor, including the major sources for records of Union and Confederate soldiers who fought in the American Civil War, such as muster rolls, pension records, and compiled military service records. Plus, alternate sources for Civil War genealogy research, including Civil War cemeteries and lineage societies.

Discover the horrors of life within the walls of one of the most notorious prisons in American history. From Military History Guide, Robert Martin.

No genealogical information, but a very neat virtual exhibit of common, everyday items of the Civil War soldier preserved at the Gettysburg National Military Park.

Nice page which includes a regimental index, Corp index, letters, excerpts from diaries, roundtables, and a research room.  Midi file playing on the front page with no way to turn off.

A list from the American Battle Monuments Commission of eight American servicemen who died during the Civil War and forty-five Civil War Veterans who are buried at the Mexico City National Cemetery or the Corozal American Cemetery.

Names, rank, organization, birth place, service information and full-text citation.

Names, rank, organization, birth place, service information and full-text citation.

An introduction to Civil War records available from the National Archives, along with an option for ordering many of them online.

This subscription database contains the roster records of 2,100,000 soldiers, 2,719 regimental chronicles, 1,010 officer profiles, 3,343 battle synopses, and 1,012 soldier photographs.

  A computerized database which contains basic facts about servicemen who served on both sides during the Civil War; a list of regiments in both the Union and Confederate Armies; identifications and description of 384 significant battles of the war; and much more.

From the Sons of Confederate Veterans

A list from the National Archives which covers state by state the repositories for the Confederate Pension Records.

A searchable index from the Library of Virginia Digital Collection

Paper copies of Civil War military service records can be ordered by mail using NATF Form 86. Copies of Civil War pension records can be ordered by mail using NATF Form 85. Send email to the National Archives with your postal mailing address, name of the form, and number of copies requested.

View a virtual copy of the Emancipation Proclamation from the National Archives and Records Administration.

By Lars Gjertveit and the Sons of Confederate Veterans

If your ancestor served in the military, the MHI has photographs of Civil War figures and soldiers. Other wars are represented as well, up to the Vietnam War.

Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion (1894 - 1922) is available online in its entirety from Cornell University's Making of America.

The National Archives and Records Administration discusses the history and available records of the United States Colored Troops (USCT).

Read about Civil War Union court-martial case files by Trevor K. Plante from the Winter 1998 quarterly of the National Archives and Record Administration.

This article by Cindy Howells covers in great detail the Civil War records available at the National Archives for Union soldiers and how to obtain them.

A listing by the United States Internet Genealogical Society of the indexes and transcriptions that exist on the Internet of the military records of the Civil War.

  This outstanding virtual archive project by the Virginia Center for Digital History takes two communities, one Northern and one Southern, through the American Civil War.

The War of the Rebellion is a compilation of the official records of the Union and Confederate armies (1880-1901) and all 80 volumes are available online in their entirety.

A wonderful site for wants to learn more about the Civil War "experience." A weekly updated day by day account of the American Civil War.

An outstanding three part series, in the journal of the National Archives and Records Administration, on women who disguised themselves as men to fight for their cause.