Missouri, Confederate Pension Applications and Soldiers Home Applications - FamilySearch Historical Records: Difference between revisions

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| title = Missouri, Confederate Pension Applications and Soldiers Home Applications, 1911-1938

| location = Missouri  

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This collection contains digital images of Confederate pension files and applications for admission to the Confederate soldiers' home for the years 1911 to 1938. The applications are arranged in alphabetical order. The pensions are for Confederate veterans who were living in Missouri, although they may have enlisted from another state. The Confederate Soldiers’ Home in Higginsville, Missouri, was open for infirm and dependent former Confederate soldiers and sailors, their wives, widows, and orphans.  

These records were created as permanent record of Confederate service and to determine eligibility for benefits and admission to the soldier’s home.

The information in these records is generally reliable. However, some of it depends on personal memory so it still may contain inaccuracies, such as slightly altered spellings and dates or misinterpretations.

 

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=== Index and Image Visibility ===

== Collection Content ==

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image:Missouri, Confederate Pension Applications and Soldiers Home Applications (10-0455) DGS 4679664 00009.jpg|1922 Soldiers Home

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== How Do I Search This Collection? ==

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=== How Do I Analyze the Results? ===

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The following articles will help you research your family in the state of [[Missouri, United States Genealogy|Missouri]].

These collections may have additional materials to help you with your research.

*{{FSC|773561|item|disp=Peggy Barnes Fox, comp and edited, ''Missouri Confederate pensions and Confederate home applications index.'' Hillsboro, Texas : Hill College Press, c1996. FS Library 977.8 M2fp}}

*{{FSC|1569411|item|disp=Wade Ankesheiln. ''The heart is the heritage : the story of the founding of the Confederate Home of Missouri.''Coral Springs, Florida : Llumina Press, c2007 FS Library 977.8453/H1 M2a}}

*{{FSC|499039|item|disp=Compiled service records of Confederate soldiers who served in organizations from the state of Missouri}}

*{{RecordSearch|1932374|Missouri, Civil War Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, 1861-1865}}

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