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If you cannot find your soldier in these indexes, use variant surname spellings and first initials for given names. Make a note of which unit and company he served with. Then find the unit (such as 29th Infantry, Company K) in Service Records for Confederate Soldiers from Texas. {{FHL|1501077 |film}} The service records usually include each soldier's name, enlistment date and place, discharge date and place, age, and sometimes residence, and physical description. | If you cannot find your soldier in these indexes, use variant surname spellings and first initials for given names. Make a note of which unit and company he served with. Then find the unit (such as 29th Infantry, Company K) in Service Records for Confederate Soldiers from Texas. {{FHL|1501077 |film}} The service records usually include each soldier's name, enlistment date and place, discharge date and place, age, and sometimes residence, and physical description. | ||
A digitized copy of the | A digitized copy of the ''Compiled service records of Confederate soldiers who served in organizations from the state of Texas'' is available online at archive.org. Digitized from multiple microfilm rolls. <br> | ||
*[http://www.archive.org/details/compiledservicer001unit First Cavalry, State Troops (Six Months, 1863-64)] Reel 001. | |||
*Third Cavalry, South Kansas-Texas Mounted Volunteers: [http://www.archive.org/details/compiledservicer018unit A-Cl] [http://www.archive.org/details/compiledservicer019unit Co-G] [http://www.archive.org/details/compiledservicer020unit H-L] [http://www.archive.org/details/compiledservicer021unit M-P] [http://www.archive.org/details/compiledservicer022unit R-Te] Reels 018 - 022.<br>First (McCulloch's) Cavalry (First Mounted Riflemen): [http://www.archive.org/details/compiledservicer002unit A-F] [[|]] | |||
*[http://www.archive.org/details/compiledservicer442unit Miscellaneous Registers A-K] [http://www.archive.org/details/compiledservicer443unit Miscellaneous Registers L-Z] Reels 442 & 443.<br> | |||
*[http://www.archive.org/details/compiledservicer444unit Conscripts A-H] [http://www.archive.org/details/compiledservicer445unit Conscripts I-Z] Reels 444 & 445.<br> | |||
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A Confederate '''pension''' index is maintained by the [http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/arc/pensions/index.php Texas State Library and Archives]. Additionally there is a published index to Confederate pension papers by John M. Kinney, Index to Applications for Texas Confederate Pensions, Rev. ed. Austin, Texas: Archives Division, Texas State Library, 1977. {{FHL|976.4 M22k|book}} {{FHL|928040|film}} {{FHL|6019976|film}} Both approved and rejected pension applications are included in the FHL Texas pension collection {{FHL|960279|film}} Approved pensions are arranged by application number. Rejected applications are arranged alphabetically.<br> | A Confederate '''pension''' index is maintained by the [http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/arc/pensions/index.php Texas State Library and Archives]. Additionally there is a published index to Confederate pension papers by John M. Kinney, Index to Applications for Texas Confederate Pensions, Rev. ed. Austin, Texas: Archives Division, Texas State Library, 1977. {{FHL|976.4 M22k|book}} {{FHL|928040|film}} {{FHL|6019976|film}} Both approved and rejected pension applications are included in the FHL Texas pension collection {{FHL|960279|film}} Approved pensions are arranged by application number. Rejected applications are arranged alphabetically.<br> | ||