Tennessee Military Records: Difference between revisions

=== Civil War (1861–1865) ===

Tennessee joined the Confederacy in 1861, but Tennessee soldiers served in both the Union and Confederate armies. Indexes to the service records are at the Family History Library and the National Archives. The service records are available at the National Archives in Washington, D.C..  

'''Union Records.''' The following records of Union veterans are available from the Family History Library:  

United States. Record and Pension Office. ''Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Tennessee''. Washington, DC: National Archives, 1962. (FHL film 1482042–261). This includes regimental returns and a detailed record of events of the war.  

United States. Record and Pension Office. ''Index to Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations From the State of Tennessee''. Washington, D.C.: National Archives, 1962. (FHL film 821889–904). Individual index cards are alphabetical and include the soldier’s company and regiment.  

United States. Quartermaster’s Department. ''Roll of Honor: Names of Soldiers Who Died in Defence of the American Union, interred in.'' . . Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1981 (FHL film 1311589–91). Records contain the name, rank, regiment, company, death date, and burial place of Union soldiers. Names are arranged alphabetically.  

A special census was taken in 1890 of Union veterans of the Civil War:  

United States. Census Office. 11th census, 1890. ''Schedules Enumerating Union Veterans and Widows of Union Veterans of the Civil War.'' Washington, D.C.: National Archives, 1948. The films for Tennessee are: (FHL films 338254–57.) Each entry lists the veteran’s name (or if he did not survive, both the widow’s and the veteran’s names) and may contain the following: the veteran’s rank, company, and regiment or vessel; dates of enlistment and discharge; length of service in years, months, and days; post office and address; disability incurred; and remarks necessary to a complete statement of the term of service.  

See also [[Tennessee Census|Tennessee Census]], which lists other sources for the 1890 Civil War veterans’ schedules.  

'''Confederate Records.''' The records listed here are available from the Family History Library:  

Tennessee. Board of Pension Examiners. ''Confederate Pension Applications: Soldiers and Widows, 1891–ca. 1965.'' Nashville, Tennessee: State Library and Archives. (On 181 FHL films beginning with 978497.) Tennessee began granting pensions to resident Confederate veterans in 1891 and to their widows in 1905. Records may contain the applicant’s name, age, address, county of residence, company, battles fought in, and marriage information. The records are indexed in:  

Sistler, Samuel D. ''Index to Tennessee Confederate Pension Applications.'' Nashville, Tennessee: B. Sistler, 1995. (FHL book 976.8 M22s index; fiche 6125500 [set of 5].)  

United States. Record and Pension Office. ''Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Tennessee.'' Washington, DC: National Archives, 1959. (370 FHL films beginning with 1499671.) This record is indexed in volume 2 of Tennesseans in the Civil War listed below; it is also in:  

United States. Adjutant General’s Office. ''Index to Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Tennessee.'' Washington, D.C.: National Archives, 1959. (FHL films 880055–102.)  

Wiefering, Edna. ''Tennessee’s Confederate Widows and Their Families: Abstracts of 11,190 Confederate Widows Pension Applications.''Cleveland Public Staff and Volunteers, 1992. (FHL 976.8 M28w.) These records include widow's maiden name, widow's residence at time of application, year and place of widow's birth, name of soldier with his year and place of birth, year and place of marriage, and year and place of soldier's death.

''List of Officers of Tennessee Regiments''<nowiki>:</nowiki>''With the Name, Rank, Company, Regiment and P.O. Address''. Bethesda, Maryland: University Publications of America, 1990. (FHL fiche 6082657.) This list is alphabetical.  

Military data from the application forms of the United Daughters of the Confederacy are in:  

United Daughters of the Confederacy. Tennessee Division. ''Confederate Patriot Index''. N.p., 1976–1978. (FHL book 976.8 M2u; Fiche 6046695 [set of 17].) Soldiers are listed alphabetically with their death dates, regiments, and names of living relatives.  

Joint Union and Confederate Records. Tennessee. State Library and Archives (Nashville, Tennessee). ''Civil War Veterans Biographical and Genealogical Questionnaires,'' 1914–1922. Nashville, Tennessee: State Library and Archives, 1974. (FHL films 975591–99.) The record contains responses of both Union and Confederate veterans in Tennessee.  

''Index to Questionnaires of Civil War Veterans''. Nashville, Tennessee: The Archives, 1962. (FHL book 976.8 A1 no. 57; 982038 item 22.) This alphabetical list includes the veteran’s company, regiment, and county of residence.  

Tennessee. Adjutant General’s Office. ''Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Tennessee, of the Military Forces of the State, from 1861 to 1866.'' Bethesda, Maryland: University Publications of America, 1990. (FHL fiche 6082658 [set of eight].) This alphabetical list includes each soldier’s rank, age, enlistment date, and muster date.  

The Tennessee Civil War Home Page created by Jeff Weaver is a central repository for information about Tennessee in the Civil War:  

[http://www.members.aol.com/jweaver303/tn/tncwhp.htm www.members.aol.com/jweaver303/tn/tncwhp.htm]  

''Tennesseans in the Civil War: A Military History of Confederate and Union Units with Available Rosters of Personnel''. Nashville, Tennessee: Civil War Centennial Commission, 1964. (FHL book 976.8 M2t; fiche 6046966 [set of 13].) Volume 1 contains brief unit histories. Volume 2 is an alphabetical list of Confederate and Union troops.  

'''Unit Histories.''' An important inventory for finding Civil War military histories is:  

''A Guide to the Microfiche Edition of Civil War Unit Histories: Regimental Histories and Personal Narratives''. Part 1, Confederate States of America and Border States. Bethesda, Maryland: University Publications of America, 1992. (FHL book 973 M2cwu pt. 1.)  

Tennessee units are listed on pages 75–80. The library has the large microfiche collection described in this guide. Use the library catalog to find individual items, including correspondence, diaries, memoirs, and regimental histories published before 1920. The guide shows the unit name, counties where it was raised, author, title, publication information, number of pages, and source repository. It also includes an author index and a major engagements index.