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A national cemetery in Sumter County is the burial place of over 12,000 Union soldiers who died while prisoners at Andersonville, Georgia. A published cemetery list is United States Quartermaster's Department, ''Roll of Honor'', Volume 3. (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1866; Family History Library [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=200058&disp=Roll+of+honor%20%20&columns=*,0,0 book 973 B4 v.3; microfilm 908229 item 2]). | A national cemetery in Sumter County is the burial place of over 12,000 Union soldiers who died while prisoners at Andersonville, Georgia. A published cemetery list is United States Quartermaster's Department, ''Roll of Honor'', Volume 3. (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1866; Family History Library [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=200058&disp=Roll+of+honor%20%20&columns=*,0,0 book 973 B4 v.3; microfilm 908229 item 2]). | ||
'''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. | |||
== Spanish-American War (1898) == | == Spanish-American War (1898) == | ||