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== Soldiers ==

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.  

=== Compiled Service Records ===

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 card abstracts were made from original muster rolls, returns, rosters, payrolls, appointment books, hospital registers, Union prison registers and rolls, parole rolls, and inspection reports. Service records may provide rank, unit, date of enlistment, length of service, age, place of birth, and date of death. The Compiled Service Records were made in an effort to obtain as nearly complete record of military service as possible at the time.  

See card [http://www.footnote.com/page/367_confederate_compiled_military_service examples and descriptions] on Footnote.com.  

The [http://go.footnote.com/civilwar_records Compiled Service Records] ($) (Footnote.com) of Confederate 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 to access at no charge at [http://www.archives.gov/locations/archival-research.html National Archives research rooms] and any library that provides free access to Footnote.com.  

==== Compiled Service Records of Individual States ====

The following three collections are not needed if searching the collection Compiled Service Records available on Footnote.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 were not included in the compiled service records of the individual states.  

*''{{FHL|0880207|disp=Compiled Service Records of Soldiers Who Served in Organizations Raised Directly by the Confederate Government}}''. National Archives Microfilm Publication M258. (FHL films 0880207–329.) (also available on [http://www.footnote.com/title_29/civil_war_soldiers_confederate_csa Footnote]) ($).<br>[http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=108709&disp=Index+to+compiled+service+records+of+Con++ Index]. NARA M818.  

*''{{FHL|0881105|disp=Compiled Service Records of Confederate General and Staff Officers and Nonregimental Enlisted Men}}''. National Archives Microfilm Publication M331. (FHL films 0881105–379.) Include those men performing staff duties. (also available on [http://www.footnote.com/title_38/civil_war_soldiers_confederate_officers Footnote]) ($).<br>[http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=108709&disp=Index+to+compiled+service+records+of+Con++ Index]. NARA M818.  

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| style="text-align: center; width:110px; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(240, 240, 240);" | <br><u>'''State'''</u><br><br>  

| style="text-align: center; width:80px; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(240, 240, 240);" | <br><u>'''Index'''</u><br><br>  

| style="text-align: center; width:85px; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(240, 240, 240);" | <br><u>'''NARA'''</u><br><br>  

| Alabama  

| style="text-align: center" | {{FHL|0821949|disp=Index}}  

| style="text-align: center" | M311  

| style="text-align: left" | {{FHL|0880330|disp=0880330‑837}}

| Arizona  

| style="text-align: center" | {{FHL|0821837|disp=Index}}  

| style="text-align: center" | M318  

| style="text-align: left" | {{FHL|0536241|disp=0536241}}

| Arkansas  

| style="text-align: center" | {{FHL|0821811|disp=Index}}  

| style="text-align: center" | M317  

| style="text-align: left" | {{FHL|0880849|disp=0880849–1104}}

| Florida  

| style="text-align: center" | {{FHL|0880001|disp=Index}}  

| style="text-align: center" | M251  

| style="text-align: left" | {{FHL|0880103|disp=0880103–206}}

| Georgia  

| style="text-align: center" | {{FHL|0821700|disp=Index}}  

| style="text-align: center" | M266  

| style="text-align: left" | {{FHL|1499064|disp=1499064–670}}

| Kentucky  

| style="text-align: center" | {{FHL|0881380|disp=Index}}  

| style="text-align: center" | M319  

| style="text-align: left" | {{FHL|1447468|disp=1447468–603}}

| Louisiana .  

| style="text-align: center" | {{FHL|0881457|disp=Index}}  

| style="text-align: center" | M320  

| style="text-align: left" | {{FHL|1447604|disp=1447604–975}}, {{FHL|1473206|disp=1473206–47}}

| Maryland  

| style="text-align: center" | {{FHL|0821887|disp=Index}}  

| style="text-align: center" | M321  

| style="text-align: left" | {{FHL|1292663|disp=1292663–84}}

| Mississippi  

| style="text-align: center" | {{FHL|0821838|disp=Index}}  

| style="text-align: center" | M269  

| style="text-align: left" | {{FHL|1488026|disp=1488026–452}}

| Missouri  

| style="text-align: center" | {{FHL|0882002|disp=Index}}  

| style="text-align: center" | M322  

| style="text-align: left" | {{FHL|1500030|disp=1500030–222}}

| North Carolina  

| style="text-align: center" | {{FHL|0821768|disp=Index}}  

| style="text-align: center" | M270  

| style="text-align: left" | {{FHL|1381001|disp=1381001–500}}, {{FHL|1447001|disp=1447001–80}}

| South Carolina  

| style="text-align: center" | {{FHL|0881967|disp=Index}}  

| style="text-align: center" | M267  

| style="text-align: left" | {{FHL|1380691|disp=1380691–95}}, {{FHL|1447081|disp=1447081–467}}

| Tennessee  

| style="text-align: center" | {{FHL|0880055|disp=Index}}  

| style="text-align: center" | M268  

| style="text-align: left" | {{FHL|1499671|disp=1499671–854}}, {{FHL|1499856|disp=1499856–1500028}}, {{FHL|1527065|disp=1527065}}

| Texas  

| style="text-align: center" | {{FHL|0880014|disp=Index}}  

| style="text-align: center" | M323  

| style="text-align: left" | {{FHL|1501077|disp=1501077–52}}

=== Biographical Sketches ===

*{{FHL|973 H2all|disp=More Generals in Gray}}  

*{{FHL|973 M2cru|disp=Confederate Staff Officers, 1861–1865}}<br>Includes birth,death year; rank, etc. Includes staff.  

*{{FHL|973 M2do|disp=Biographical Sketches of the Commissioned Officers of the Confederate States Marine Corps}}<br>Includes names of officer, parents, birth date, service history, marriage, and death information.  

*{{FHL|973 M2du|disp=Going South: U.S. Navy Officer Resignations and Dismissals On the Eve of the Civil War}}<br>The appendix contains information about officers and is arranged by rank.  

*{{FHL|973 D36kca|disp=Lee’s Colonels: A Biographical Register of the Field Officers of the Army of Northern Virginia}}<br>The appendix contains an additional list of 3,524 field officers by name, identifying rank, and unit.  

*{{FHL|973 M3ro|disp=Register of Officers of the Confederate States Navy, 1861–1865}}<br>Some entries list the state of birth, state appointed from, service history, and rank.  

=== Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System ===

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.  

=== Government Records ===

Published muster rolls and statistical data on ships are in [http://books.google.com/books?id=zjNAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies, Vol. 1, Series II] (Google Books). The muster rolls list name, grade, and ship.  

=== Other Resources ===

 

For information about Marines see the following:  

 

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