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Additional documents are in Texas ''Confederate Index: Confederate Soldiers of the State of Texas.'' (Family History Library [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=424572&disp=Texas+Confederate+index++ films 227483-96].) This lists each soldier's name, enlistment date and place, discharge date and place, age, residence, physical description, and other information.  
Additional documents are in Texas ''Confederate Index: Confederate Soldiers of the State of Texas.'' (Family History Library [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=424572&disp=Texas+Confederate+index++ films 227483-96].) This lists each soldier's name, enlistment date and place, discharge date and place, age, residence, physical description, and other information.  
'''Civil War Pension Index Cards''' - A free Internet index to pension applications of veterans who served in the US Army between 1861-1917 is available on [http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=collectionDetails;t=searchable;c=1471019 FamilySearch Record Search]. Each card gives the soldier’s name, application and certificate numbers, state of enlistment, and might include rank and death information. Other wars, of that time period, may be included.


A published roster of some Texas regiments is Martin Hardwick Hall, ''The Confederate Army of New Mexico.'' Austin, Texas: Presidial Press, 1978. (Family History Library [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=86179&disp=The+Confederate+Army+of+New+Mexico++ book 978.9 M2ha; fiche 6087304].) This lists soldiers of Texas stationed in New Mexico during the war.  
A published roster of some Texas regiments is Martin Hardwick Hall, ''The Confederate Army of New Mexico.'' Austin, Texas: Presidial Press, 1978. (Family History Library [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=86179&disp=The+Confederate+Army+of+New+Mexico++ book 978.9 M2ha; fiche 6087304].) This lists soldiers of Texas stationed in New Mexico during the war.  
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