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 ''[[United States|United States]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[United States Military Records|U.S. Military Records]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[United States Civil War, 1861 to 1865|U.S. Civil War]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[Confederate Service and Pension Records]]  [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] '''Confederate Service Records'''
-Your Confederate ancestor may have served from a military unit raised by the Confederate Government or by individual states with the Confederacy.&nbsp;
+Your Confederate ancestor may have served from a military unit raised by the Confederate Government or by individual states with the Confederacy.
+==== United States Government Records ====
+'''Compiled Service Records'''
+The Compiled Service Records for Confederate soldiers were made by the United States Record and Pension Office in the War department. Beginning in 1903, the Record and Pension Office made card abstracts from records in the War Department Collection of Confederate Records and from other borrowed documents. In addition to the cards, original documents that related only to the individual soldier were included.
+The card abstracts were made from original muster rolls, returns, rosters, payrolls, appointment books, hospital registers, Union prison registers and rolls, parole rolls, and inspection reports. Service records may provide rank, unit, date of enlistment, length of service, age, place of birth, and date of death. The Compiled Service Records were made in an effort to obtain as nearly complete record of military service as possible at the time. These records were needed in order to properly administer federal pensions for soldiers that served the Union, their dependents and widows.
+See card [http://www.footnote.com/page/367_confederate_compiled_military_service examples and descriptions] on Footnote.com.
+The [http://go.footnote.com/civilwar_records Compiled Service Records] ($) (Footnote.com) of Confederate soldiers are available online. In the future, these records will be [http://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2007/nr07-41.html made available at no charge] through the National Archives web site. The service records are also available to access at no charge at [http://www.archives.gov/locations/archival-research.html National Archives research rooms] and any library that provides free access to Footnote.com.
 ==== Confederate Government Service Records  ====
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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.)
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-=== <br> FamilySearch Historical Record Collections  ===
+=== FamilySearch Historical Record Collections  ===
 An online collection containing this records is located in&nbsp; [https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/show#uri=http://hr-search-api:8080/searchapi/search/collection/1854310 FamilySearch.org.]
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 [[Arizona Service Records of Confederate Soldiers of the Civil War (FamilySearch Historical Records)|Arizona Service Records of Confederate Soldiers of the Civil War (FamilySearch Historical Records)]]
-==== Confederate State Service Records  ====
+==== State Service Records  ====
 Most Confederate soldiers served with a Unit raised in the community where they lived. These records were maintained by each individual Confederate state. The records and indexes available at the [[National Archives and Records Administration|National Archives]] and [[Family History Library|Family History Library]] are: