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| An Index to Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Soldiers who Served during the Cherokee Disturbances and Removal, 1836 to 1838, is on Family History Library microfilm {{FHL|95617|title-id|disp=1205402}}. The compiled military service records for this index have not been microfilmed and are available only at the National Archives. | | An Index to Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Soldiers who Served during the Cherokee Disturbances and Removal, 1836 to 1838, is on Family History Library microfilm {{FHL|95617|title-id|disp=1205402}}. The compiled military service records for this index have not been microfilmed and are available only at the National Archives. |
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| == Civil War (1861-1865) == | | == Civil War (1861-1865) == [[Image:{{Battle Chickamauga GA 1863}}]] |
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| Soldiers from Georgia served in both the Union and the Confederate Armies. Indexes and the compiled military service records are available at the Family History Library and the National Archives.
| | See [[Georgia in the Civil War|Georgia in the Civil War]] for information about Georgia Civil War records, web sites, etc. with links to articles about the Georgia regiments involved in the Civil War. The regimental articles 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 the families of the soldiers. <br> |
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| Georgia Confederate pension records are indexed by the soldier's last name. (Family History Library microfilms {{FHL|283808|title-id|disp=1493047---}} ) Confederate soldiers received pensions for military service beginning in 1879. The law establishing pension payment was changed in 1891 to include widows of soldiers. Pension records for Confederate veterans are arranged by counties and are at the Family History Library on 634 films. (Family History Library microfilms {{FHL|283808|title-id|disp=315678—)}} The indexed original pension documents are available online at the [http://content.sos.state.ga.us/cdm4/pension.php Georgia Department of Archives and History]. Enlistment oaths and discharges for Confederate solidiers are also indexed and viewable as original documents at the [http://content.sos.state.ga.us/cdm4/confed.php Georgia Department of Archives and History]. Pension records for Union veterans are available at the National Archives.
| | For information about African American troops, see [[United States Colored Troops in the Civil War|United States Colored Troops in the Civil War]] to learn about the regiments and units that served from South Carolina. <br> |
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| A published roster of Georgia Confederate soldiers who served in the infantry is Lillian Hendersen, comp., ''Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-65'', Six Volumes. (Hapeville, Georgia: Longino & Porter, Incorporated, 1960-64; Family History Library {{FHL|258092|title-id|disp=book 975.8 M22h; microfilms 1033660 items 3-4, —622; microfiche 6082336}}).
| | The [http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/ Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System] allows name searching for soldiers. The result set gives the regiment for each soldiers. Then you can check the regiment page to determine counties. Often knowing the counties that had men in a regiment will help you determine if a soldier was your ancestor. <br> |
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| A national cemetery in Sumter County is the burial place of over 12,000 Union soldiers who died while prisoners at Andersonville, Georgia. A published cemetery list is United States Quartermaster's Department, ''Roll of Honor'', Volume 3. (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1866; Family History Library {{FHL|200058|title-id|disp=book 973 B4 v.3; microfilm 908229 item 2}}).
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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.
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| '''Southern Claims Commission.''' If a Union sympathizer in Georgia 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 Georgia counties during the Civil War see the [[Southern Claims Commission|Southern Claims Commission]].
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| == Spanish-American War (1898) == | | == Spanish-American War (1898) == |