Confederate Service Records: Difference between revisions

''[[United States|United States]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[United States Military Records|U.S. Military]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[United States Civil War, 1861 to 1865|U.S. Civil War]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[Confederate_Service_Records|Confederate Service Records]]'' __TOC__  

Confederate soldiers may have served from a military unit raised by the Confederate Government or by an individual Confederate state. Most Confederate soldiers served with a unit raised in the community where they lived.  

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 Family Search Historical Records on line Collection has some confederate soldier records. {{RecordSearch|1932383|United States, Civil War Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, 1861-1865}}  

The following three collections are not needed if searching the entire collection Compiled Service Records available on Fold3.com. They are include in that database. If you are using the records of the individual states, however, the following three collections should also be searched as they are not included in the compiled service records of the individual states.  

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The "[[Historical Register and Dictionary of the US Army|Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army]]..." by Francis B. Heitman lists U.S. Army officers who joined the Confederate Army and the highest rank they attained.  

*{{FHL|973 M2wa|disp=Generals in Gray: Lives of the Confederate Commanders}}<br>Contains brief sketches of military service with some pictures and birth and death information.

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.  

*U.S. Navy Department. ''[http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=256214&disp=Official+records+of+the+Union+and+Confed++ Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion]''. 30 Volumes. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1894–1922. National Archives Microfilm Publication M275. ({{FHL|973 M2unr|disp=FHL book 973 M2unr}}; films 1490058–88) Similar to the official records of the armies, it is known as the ORN (Official Records . . . Navy). Its two series contain reports and correspondence on the Northern blockade of Southern ports and on matters concerning the Confederate Navy. Volume 1, series II has an index to Union and Confederate ships, statistical data, and muster rolls of confederate vessels.

*''Confederate Naval and Marine Personnel Records'' ({{FHL|0191662|disp=FHL 191662-8}}) (NARA M260) has information about sailors and Marines abstracted from original documents, such as hospital, prison, and parole records.

*The ''Confederate States Navy Research Guide'' ([http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24477660 Worldcat]) contains biographical sketches of Naval and Marine officers, naval histories of Confederate naval vessels, and a subject bibliography of sources.

*[[United States Unfiled Papers and Slips Belonging in Confederate Compiled Service Records (FamilySearch Historical Records)|United States Unifiled Papers and Slips Belonging to Confederate Compiled Service Records (FamilySearch Historical Records)]]

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