United States, Register of Confederates and Civilians Who Died in the North - FamilySearch Historical Records: Difference between revisions

| title=United States, Register of Confederates and Civilians Who Died in the North, 1861-1865

| location= United States

| FS_URL_01 = [[GuidedResearch:United States]]

| RW_URL_01 = University of Mississippi. Center for Civil War Research: [http://www.civilwarcenter.olemiss.edu/cemeteries_csa.html Cemetery Locations of Confederate Burials]  

| RW_URL_02 = National Archives and Records Administration (NARA): [http://www.archives.gov/research/military/civil-war/confederate-pows.pdf Confederate Prisoners of War NARA Reference List] (PDF)

| RW_URL_03 = NARA: [http://research.archives.gov/description/617202 Collection Description]  

| RW_URL_05 =

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The collection consists of an index & images of a Register of Confederate soldiers, sailors and citizens who died in federal prisons and military hospitals in the North,1861-1865. This collection corresponds to NARA publication, M918, one roll from Record Group 92 Records of the Office of the Quartermaster General. The register was compiled in 1912 in the Office of the Commissioner for Marking the Graves of Confederate Dead. The register is arranged by place of death then alphabetically by name. A table of contents will be found at the beginning of the volume.

 

 

 

=== Index and Image Visibility ===

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=== Inventory ===

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=== FamilySearch Catalog ===

*{{FSC|88851|item|disp=Register of Confederate soldiers, sailors and citizens who died in federal prisons and military hospitals in the North, 1861-1865}}

*{{FSC|269170|item|disp=''Confederate soldiers, sailors and civilians who died as prisoners of war at Camp Douglas, Chicago, Ill., 1862-1865''Kalamazoo, Michigan : Edgar Gray Publications, 1970}}

*Jocelyn P. Jamison, compiled, ''They died at Fort Delaware, 1861-1865; Confederate, Union and civilian'' Delaware City, Delaware : Fort Delaware Society, 1997 {{FSC|983671|item|disp=FS Library book 975.11 M28j}}

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