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| === Civil War (1861 to 1865) === | | === Civil War (1861 to 1865) === |
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| Indexes to service and pension records for about 3,000 soldiers are at the Family History Library. The service and pension records have not been filmed and are only at the National Archives. Published rosters usually give the soldier's name, rank, regiment, age, and residence. These include:
| | See [[Nebraska in the Civil War|Nebraska in the Civil War]] for information about Nebraska Civil War records, web sites, etc. with links to articles about the Nebraska regiments involved in the Civil War. The regimental pages often include lists of the companies with links to the counties where the companies started. Men in the companies often lived in the counties where the companies were raised. Knowing a county can help when researching more about the soldiers and their families. |
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| *Dudley, Edgar S. ''Roster of Nebraska Volunteers from 1861 to 1869''. Hasting, Nebraska: Wigton & Evans, 1888. (Family History Library {{FHL|317023|title-id|disp=film 370881}}.)
| | 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. |
| *''Roster of Nebraska Soldiers''. Omaha, Nebraska: Klopp, Bartlett & Company, 1888. (Family History Library {{FHL|164034|film|disp=film 164034}}.)
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| Burial records of Civil War veterans of the Department of Nebraska, Grand Army of the Republic, are also available in alphabetical order (Family History Library {{FHL|201129|title-id|disp=films 833155-156}}). The records provide the veteran's military unit, date and place of death, cemetery, and sometimes date and place of birth.
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| The Nebraska State Historical Society maintains an online database of [http://www.nebraskahistory.org/databases/necivilwarveterans.shtml Nebraska Civil War Veterans] compiled to help researchers locate individuals referenced in the Civil War Vereants Indexes. It is not a complete index.
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| *'''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.
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| === World War I (1917 to 1918) === | | === World War I (1917 to 1918) === |