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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 and pension records are available at the National Archives in their [http://www.archives.gov/locations/archival-research.html research rooms] or by mail. They are also available online from Footnote.com. 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.
-*Compiled Service Records - The [http://go.footnote.com/civilwar_records Compiled Service Records] ($) (Footnote.com) of Missouri soldiers are available online. In the future, these records will be [http://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2007/nr07-41.html made available at no charge] through the National Archives web site. The service records are also available at no charge at [http://www.archives.gov/locations/archival-research.html National Archives research rooms]. The compiled service records consist of an envelope containing card abstracts taken from muster rolls, returns, pay vouchers, and other records. Service records may provide rank, unit, date of enlistment, length of service, age, place of birth, and date of death. For more information see [[Union Service and Pension Records]] and [[Confederate Service and Pension Records]].
+=== Confederate ===
-*The Family History Library has an {{RecordSearch|1471019|Index of Civil War Pensions}}, also known as the "Organizational Index" ([http://linealarboretum.blogspot.com/2010/03/determining-if-your-ancestor-had-civil.html see explanation]) available online. Images of the actual index cards, however, are available through the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) or through [http://www.footnote.com/title_57/civil_war_and_later_veterans_pension_index Footnote.com] ($). Each card gives the soldier’s name, application and certificate numbers, state of enlistment, and might include rank and death information.
+==== Service Records ====
+'''Compiled Service Records''' - The [http://go.footnote.com/civilwar_records Compiled Service Records] ($) (Footnote.com) of Confederate soldiers who served in organizations from the state of Missouri are available online. In the future, these records will be [http://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2007/nr07-41.html made available at no charge] through the National Archives web site. The service records are also available at no charge at [http://www.archives.gov/locations/archival-research.html National Archives research rooms]. The compiled service records consist of an envelope containing card abstracts taken from muster rolls, returns, pay vouchers, and other records. Service records may provide rank, unit, date of enlistment, length of service, age, place of birth, and date of death. For more information see [[Confederate Service and Pension Records]].
+St. Louis Public Library owns a copy of the NARA indexes and compiled military service records for Missouri Union and Confederate soldiers.&nbsp; SLPL also owns NARA's ''Index to Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served With the United States Colored Troops,''&nbsp;and provides lists of [http://previous.slpl.org/libsrc/MOILL1.HTM Missouri men who served in Illinois regiments] and [http://previous.slpl.org/libsrc/momenks.htm Missouri men who served in Kansas regiments] on its website.
+==== Pension Records ====
+{{RecordSearch|1865475|Missouri Confederate Pension Applications and Soldiers Home Applications}}, both approved and disapproved,  are available online and at the Family History Library (beginning with Family History Library film 1021101). They are also available at the Missouri Adjutant General's office.
+=== Union ===
+==== Service Records ====
+'''Compiled Service Records''' - The [http://go.footnote.com/civilwar_records Compiled Service Records] ($) (Footnote.com) of volunteer Union soldiers who served in organizations from the state of Missouri 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 at no charge at [http://www.archives.gov/locations/archival-research.html National Archives research rooms]. The compiled service records consist of an envelope containing card abstracts taken from muster rolls, returns, pay vouchers, and other records. Service records may provide rank, unit, date of enlistment, length of service, age, place of birth, and date of death. For more information see [[Union Service and Pension Records]].
 St. Louis Public Library owns a copy of the NARA indexes and compiled military service records for Missouri Union and Confederate soldiers.&nbsp; SLPL also owns NARA's ''Index to Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served With the United States Colored Troops,''&nbsp;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.
+==== Pension Records ====
+'''Civil War Pension Index Cards''' - An {{RecordSearch|1471019|Index to Pension Applications}} of veterans who served in the US Army between 1861-1917 is available on FamilySearch. Each card gives the soldier’s name, application and certificate numbers, state of enlistment, and might include rank and death information. The majority of the records are of Civil War veterans, but the collection also includes records for veterans of the Spanish-American War, the Philippine Insurrection, the Indian Wars, and World War I. For more information see [[Union Service and Pension Records]].
+=== Other Records ===
 [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&nbsp;of books and periodical articles about Missouri military organizations, Union and Confederate.&nbsp;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).&nbsp;
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 A special 1890 census of Union veterans is at the National Archives and on Family History Library {{FHL|230777|title-id|disp=films 338186-93}}. A published index to this census is available.
-{{RecordSearch|1865475|Missouri Confederate Pension Applications and Soldiers Home Applications}}, both approved and disapproved,  are available online and at the Family History Library (beginning with Family History Library film 1021101). They are also available at the Missouri Adjutant General's office.
+=== African-American Service Records ===
-'''African-American Service Records'''
 St. Louis&nbsp;County 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