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The Family History Library and the National Archives have the:  
The Family History Library and the National Archives have the:  


*“''Index to Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers'' . . .” (Family History Library film {{FHL|314316|title-id|disp=881594}}).  
*“''Index to Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers'' . . .” (Family History Library film {{FHL|314316|title-id|disp=881594}}).
*''Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers'' . . . (Family History Library film {{FHL|36086|title-id|disp=1292638-644}}). May provide the soldier's or sailor's unit which can help to find pension records but does not give information about other members of the soldier's family.  
 
*''Pension Index File . . . 1861-1934'' (Family History Library films beginning with {{FHL|184124|title-id|disp=540757}}). The actual pension records are only at the National Archives. Pension records sometimes list other members of the soldier's family and birth, marriage, and death information.  
*''Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers'' . . . (Family History Library film {{FHL|36086|title-id|disp=1292638-644}}). May provide the soldier's or sailor's unit which can help to find pension records but does not give information about other members of the soldier's family.
 
*''Pension Index File . . . 1861-1934'' (Family History Library films beginning with {{FHL|184124|title-id|disp=540757}}). The actual pension records are only at the National Archives. Pension records sometimes list other members of the soldier's family and birth, marriage, and death 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.
*''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.


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