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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. | ||
The | The [http://www.footnote.com/title_51/missouri Compiled Service Records for Missouri soldiers] ($) (Footnote.com) are now 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. Service records may provide rank, unit, date of enlistment, length of service, age, residence, and death date. The service records are also available at no charge at [http://www.archives.gov/locations/archival-research.html National Archives research rooms]. | ||
[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). | [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). | ||