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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. | 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. | ||
The Genealogy Center of the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne has the "Index to Compiled Service Records" for Indiana Union soldiers. The "General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934" is available on microfilm in The Genealogy Center in Fort Wayne and the Indiana State Library in Indianapolis. | |||
The Indiana State Archives in Indianapolis has several unique resources pertaining to the Civil War, including: | |||
*Governor Oliver P. Morton Collection - Governor Morton was an active governor during the Civil War. This collection includes correspondence with President Abraham Lincoln and Gen. Ulysses Grant, as well as reports from soldiers. | |||
*Adjutant Generals' Records - This collection includes an index to Indiana Civil War muster rolls, hospital records and registers for specific regiments, quartermasters' records regarding the issuance of supplies and ordnance, Indiana Legion (state militia) muster rolls and correspondence, 1862 draft records for white males ages 18 to 45, and regimental correspondence for Indiana units, including the 28th United States Colored Troops. | |||
*Veterans' Records - Enrollment of soldiers, widows and orphans for 1886, 1890 and 1894, including an 1886 alphabetical card index. The lists for 1890 and 1894 are arranged by county and township. This collection also includes more than 10,000 files dating from 1896 to 1964 for the Indiana Veterans Home opened in Lafayette in 1896. This material soon will be available in a database online. | |||
*Material and records for the Indiana Soldiers' and Sailors' Children's Home. | |||
*Camp Morton Collection - Camp Morton was a Civil War prison for captured Confederate soldiers. The Indiana State Archives has a small collection of letters from prisoners to Gov. Morton asking for release. | |||
*Morgan's Raid Claims - Claims to the state for damages incurred during Confederate Gen. John Hunt Morgan's 1863 raid into southern Indiana. | |||
Records of the 28th United States Colored Troops, the unit in which the majority of Indiana's African American soldiers served, are available at the subscription website Footnote.com [[www.footnote.com/browse.php#33|hKRA2TPs9r6pt3d_3|browse.php#33|hKRA2TPs9r6pt3d_3]].<br> | |||
=== Indiana Militia Records <br>(1872–1896) === | === Indiana Militia Records <br>(1872–1896) === | ||