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| === Civil War (1861-1865) === | | === Civil War (1861-1865) === |
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| For an excellent discussion of West Virginia's part in the Civil War see Boyd B. Stutler, ''West Virginia in the Civil War.'' Charleston, West Virginia: Educational Foundation, 1963. (Family History Library {{FHL|359152|title-id|disp=book 975.4 M2s}}.)
| | See [[West Virginia in the Civil War|West Virginia in the Civil War]] for information about West Virginia Civil War records, web sites, etc. with links to articles about the West Virginia regiments involved in the Civil War. The regimental pages often include lists of the companies with links to the counties where the companies started. Men in the companies often lived in the counties where the companies were raised. Knowing a county can help when researching more about the soldiers and their families. |
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| '''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.
| | The [http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/ Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System] allows name searching for soldiers. The result set gives the regiments for the soldiers. Then you can check the Wiki regiment pages to determine counties. Often knowing the counties that had men in a regiment will help you determine if a soldier was your ancestor. <br><br> |
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| '''Union.''' Indexes to service and pension records of Union volunteers are available at the Family History Library and the National Archives. The library also has 261 microfilms of the Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of West Virginia. The records are arranged alphabetically by the soldiers' names within each unit. Use the index (Family History Library {{FHL|484391|title-id|disp=films 881595-607}}) to learn which unit your ancestor served in. The pension records are available only at the National Archives, however the Family History Library has the index on microfilms.
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| '''Confederate.''' West Virginia did not organize any confederate regiments nor did they grant pensions to confederate veterans. The approximately 9,000 West Virginians who chose to fight for the Confederate States of America generally joined the confederate regiments of Virginia. Virginia's 22nd Infantry was composed almost entirely of soldiers from West Virginia. The 31st and 46th Infantry also had large numbers from West Virginia. Some confederate veterans may have received pensions from Virginia (records, with an index, are on 219 Family History Library films beginning with {{FHL|474918|title-id|disp=1439763}}.)
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| The Archives and History Library has a list of Confederate soldiers and an alphabetical card index to Confederate graves.
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| http://www.shepherd.edu/gtmcweb/cwlinks.htm
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| http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Lair/3680/cw/cw-wv.html
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| http://www.wvculture.org/history/civilwar.html
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| '''Southern Claims Commission.''' If a Union sympathizer in West Virginia claimed a loss during the Civil War due to Union military confiscation, he could apply to the Southern Claims Commission for reimbursement. Only a few applied per county, but their neighbors were called as witnesses and asked dozens of questions. Hundreds of the residents of all kinds in a county may be mentioned in answers to Commission questions, and their wartime activities described. To learn how to find records mentioning these neighbors in West Virginia counties during the Civil War see the [[Southern Claims Commission|Southern Claims Commission]].
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| === World War I (1917-1918) === | | === World War I (1917-1918) === |