FamilySearch Wiki

Missouri Military Records: Difference between revisions

Page Talk

Missouri Military Records (view source)

Revision as of 07:46, 13 May 2009

371 bytes added ,  13 May 2009
organized information better under headings, added links and got rid of dead links
VisualWikitext
mNo edit summary
(organized information better under headings, added links and got rid of dead links)
Line 51: Line 51:
Missouri soldiers served in both the Union and the Confederate armies. Indexes to the service records are available at the Family History Library. The federal service records are available at the National Archives. St. Louis Public Library owns a copy of the NARA indexes and compiled military service records for Missouri Union and Confederate soldiers.  SLPL also owns NARA's ''Index to Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served With the United States Colored Troops,'' and provides lists of [http://previous.slpl.org/libsrc/MOILL1.HTM Missouri men who served in Illinois regiments] and [http://previous.slpl.org/libsrc/momenks.htm Missouri men who served in Kansas regiments] on its website.  
Missouri soldiers served in both the Union and the Confederate armies. Indexes to the service records are available at the Family History Library. The federal service records are available at the National Archives. St. Louis Public Library owns a copy of the NARA indexes and compiled military service records for Missouri Union and Confederate soldiers.  SLPL also owns NARA's ''Index to Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served With the United States Colored Troops,'' and provides lists of [http://previous.slpl.org/libsrc/MOILL1.HTM Missouri men who served in Illinois regiments] and [http://previous.slpl.org/libsrc/momenks.htm Missouri men who served in Kansas regiments] on its website.  


[http://previous.slpl.org/libsrc/cvwara.htm Divided State: Missouri Military Organizations in the Civil War] is an index on the St. Louis Public Library website of books and periodical articles about Missouri military organizations, Union and Confederate. There is also an article on the website about [http://previous.slpl.org/libsrc/mocivilwar.htm Missouri Union Militia Organizations].  
[http://previous.slpl.org/libsrc/cvwara.htm Divided State: Missouri Military Organizations in the Civil War] is an index on the St. Louis Public Library website of books and periodical articles about Missouri military organizations, Union and Confederate. There is also an article on the website about [http://previous.slpl.org/libsrc/mocivilwar.htm Missouri Union Militia Organizations].Further information about Missouri Civil War soldiers, regiments, and battles can be discovered in The Civil War In Missouri: a Selected, Annotated Bibliography (available on the website of St. Louis Public Library). 


Pension records of Confederate veterans, both approved and disapproved, and soldier's home admission applications are alphabetized and available at the Family History Library (beginning with Family History Library film [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=426874&disp=Confederate+pension+applications+and+sol%20%20&columns=*,0,0 1021101]) and at the Missouri Adjutant General's office. The Family History Library has an index to the Union army pensions, but the actual files are only available at the National Archives.  
The book "A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, V.III" by Frederick H. Dyer, lists on pages 1301-1343 many of the Union units, both federal and local milita, which served in the Civil War. With some units, lists of soldiers and brief unit histories are given. This book is available on  FHL US/CAN Fiche [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=771246&disp=A+compendium+of+the+War+of+the+Rebellion++ 6082513.]  Portions are also available [p://home.usmo.com/~momollus/MOVOLFED.HTM#HG. online].
'''Civil War Pensions '''- 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.  


<br>
The Adjutant General's office has state records of volunteers and state militia (Family History Library [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=425623&disp=Military+records++ films 1021080]-98), including descriptive muster rolls and enlistment and discharge rolls.


'''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.
A special 1890 census of Union veterans is at the National Archives and on Family History Library [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=230777&disp=Schedules+enumerating+Union+veterans+and++ films 338186-93]. A published index to this census is available.
 
The Adjutant General's office has state records of volunteers and state militia (Family History Library [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=425623&disp=Military+records++ films 1021080]-98), including descriptive muster rolls and enlistment and discharge rolls.  


A special 1890 census of Union veterans is at the National Archives and on Family History Library [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=230777&disp=Schedules+enumerating+Union+veterans+and++ films 338186-93]. A published index to this census is available.  
Pension records of Confederate veterans, both approved and disapproved, and soldier's home admission applications are alphabetized and available at the Family History Library (beginning with Family History Library film 1021101) and at the Missouri Adjutant General's office. The Family History Library has an index to the Union army pensions, but the actual files are only available at the National Archives.


The Missouri State Archives includes in their collection a group of papers called the [http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/provost/ Provost Marshall Papers]. These are records from the Union Army War Department. Many of the records pertain to Confederate citizens and sympathizers. These records span 1861-1866 and an index to the Missouri portion of the records is available online. Copies of the records can be obtained by contacting the Missouri State Archives.&nbsp; St. Louis Public Library owns the portion of the&nbsp;NARA microfilm set, ''Selected Records of the War Department Relating to Confederate Prisoners of War, 1861-1865'', that includes prisoners at Alton and Camp Douglas in Illinois, and Myrtle and Gratiot Street Prisons in St. Louis.
'''African-American Service Records'''


Further information about Missouri Civil War soldiers, regiments, and battles can be discovered in [http://previous.slpl.org/libsrc/civilmo.htm The Civil War In Missouri: a Selected, Annotated Bibliography] (available on the website of St. Louis Public Library).&nbsp;
St. Louis Public Library has placed on the internet&nbsp;&nbsp;[http://www.slcl.org/branches/hq/sc/jkh/usctmo/usctmosoldiers.htm An Index to Descriptive Recruitment Lists of Volunteers for the United States Colored Troops for the State of Missouri, 1863–1865] (NARA Microfilm Publication M1894 – 6 rolls)This index has 5,500+ entries and can be browsed either by recruits’ names or by slave owners’ names. The index provides the following information:<br>• Recruit’s last name<br>• Recruit’s first name<br>• Age<br>• Birth State<br>• County of Birth<br>• Slave Owner<br>• County of Residence<br>• State of Residence<br>• Roll<br>• Frame


St. Louis Public Library has placed on the internet&nbsp;&nbsp;[http://www.slcl.org/branches/hq/sc/jkh/usctmo/usctmosoldiers.htm An Index to Descriptive Recruitment Lists of Volunteers for the United States Colored Troops for the State of Missouri, 1863–1865] (NARA Microfilm Publication M1894 – 6 rolls)This index has 5,500+ entries and can be browsed either by recruits’ names or by slave owners’ names. The index provides the following information:<br>• Recruit’s last name<br>• Recruit’s first name<br>• Age<br>• Birth State<br>• County of Birth<br>• Slave Owner<br>• County of Residence<br>• State of Residence<br>• Roll<br>• Frame
'''Provost Marshal Papers'''<br>The Missouri State Archives includes in their collection a group of papers called the Provost Marshall Papers. These are records from the Union Army War Department. Many of the records pertain to Confederate citizens and sympathizers. These records span 1861-1866 and an index to the Missouri portion of the records is available online. Copies of the records can be obtained by contacting the Missouri State Archives. St. Louis Public Library owns the portion of the NARA microfilm set, Selected Records of the War Department Relating to Confederate Prisoners of War, 1861-1865, that includes prisoners at Alton and Camp Douglas in Illinois, and Myrtle and Gratiot Street Prisons in St. Louis.&nbsp;


=== Spanish-American War (1898)  ===
=== Spanish-American War (1898)  ===
Emptyuser
0

edits

Retrieved from "https://integration-ru.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/173945"