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[[Portal:United States Military Records|Portal:United States Military Records]]>[[United States Civil War, 1861 to 1865|United States Civil War, 1861 to 1865]]>[[Confederate Service and Pension Records|Confederate Service and Pension Records]] | [[Portal:United States Military Records|Portal:United States Military Records]]>[[United States Civil War, 1861 to 1865|United States Civil War, 1861 to 1865]]>[[Confederate Service and Pension Records|Confederate Service and Pension Records]] | ||
Your Confederate ancestor may have served from a military unit raised by the Confederate Government or by individual states with the Confederacy. The following is an important index to Confederate Government records: | Your Confederate ancestor may have served from a military unit raised by the Confederate Government or by individual states with the Confederacy. | ||
==== Confederate Government Service Records ==== | |||
The following is an important index to Confederate Government records: | |||
*''[http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=108709&disp=Index+to+compiled+service+records+of+Con++ Index to Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations Raised Directly by the Confederate Government and of Confederate General and Staff Officers and Nonregimental Enlisted Men]''. National Archives Microfilm Publication M818. (FHL films 1205310–35.) | *''[http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=108709&disp=Index+to+compiled+service+records+of+Con++ Index to Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations Raised Directly by the Confederate Government and of Confederate General and Staff Officers and Nonregimental Enlisted Men]''. National Archives Microfilm Publication M818. (FHL films 1205310–35.) | ||
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*''[http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=41408&disp=Unfiled+papers+and+slips+belonging+in+Co++ Unfiled Papers and Slips Belonging to Confederate Compiled Service Records].'' National Archives Microfilm Publication M347. (FHL films 1402001–442.) | *''[http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=41408&disp=Unfiled+papers+and+slips+belonging+in+Co++ Unfiled Papers and Slips Belonging to Confederate Compiled Service Records].'' National Archives Microfilm Publication M347. (FHL films 1402001–442.) | ||
==== Confederate State Service Records ==== | |||
Most Confederate soldiers served with a Unit raised in the community where they lived. These records were maintianed by each individual Confederate state. The records and indexes available at the National Archives and Family History Library are: | Most Confederate soldiers served with a Unit raised in the community where they lived. These records were maintianed by each individual Confederate state. The records and indexes available at the National Archives and Family History Library are: | ||