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-[[United States Military Records|United States Military Records]]&gt;[[United States Civil War, 1861 to 1865|United States Civil War, 1861 to 1865]]&gt;[[Union Army Records|Union Army Records]] Union Army soldiers may have served in the U.S. Army, local militia units mustered into federal service, or volunteer regiments raised by the individual states. The length of service varied from 90 days to three years. Many soldiers also reenlisted, serving in more than one regiment. The Union Army and Navy enlisted over 2.3 million men, of which nearly 359,000 died in combat or from wounds and disease.
+[[United States Military Records|United States Military Records]]&gt;[[United States Civil War, 1861 to 1865|United States Civil War, 1861 to 1865]]&gt;[[Union Army Records|Union Army Records]]  A transcription of the National Archives indexes to compiled Military Service records of Volunteer Union soldiers is:
-There is currently no master index to the names of soldiers who served in Union volunteer regiments. Individual indexes to state volunteer regiments are available on microfilm for every Northern state and every Southern state except South Carolina. A transcription of the National Archives indexes to compiled Military Service records of Volunteer Union soldiers is:
 Hewett, Janet B., editor. [http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=779026&disp=The+Roster+of+Union+soldiers%2C+1861%2D1%20%20&columns=*,0,0 The Roster of Union Soldiers, 1861–1865]. 33 Volumes. Wilmington, North Carolina: Broadfoot Publishing, 1997–. (FHL book 973 M29h.) This series is currently in publication.