Confederate Soldiers Home Records

United States U.S. Military Records U.S. Civil War Confederate Soldiers Home Records

Many Southern states maintained soldier homes for Confederate veterans. Most records for Confederate soldier homes are located at state archives or other archives in the state where the home was located.

Confederate Soldier Homes

Alabama

• Alabama Confederate Soldiers Home
  Mountain Creek, Alabama

Arkansas

• Arkansas Confederate Soldiers' Home
  Sweet Home, Arkansas

Florida

• Florida Old Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Home
  Jacksonville, Florida

Georgia

• Georgia Soldiers' Home (Confederate Soldiers' Home)
  Atlanta, Georgia

Kentucky

• Confederate Soldiers' Home and Widows' and Orphans' Asylum
  Georgetown, Kentucky

• Kentucky Confederate Soldiers' Home
  Pewee Valley, Kentucky

Louisiana

• Soldiers’ Home of Louisiana (Camp Nicholls Soldier's Home)
  New Orleans, Louisiana

Maryland

• Maryland Line Confederate Soldiers' Home
  Pikesville, Maryland

Mississippi

• Beauvoir Confederate Soldiers' Home (Jefferson Davis Beauvoir Memorial Soldiers' Home)
  Biloxi, Mississippi

Missouri

• Missouri Confederate Home
  Higginsville, Missouri

North Carolina

• Confederate Woman's Home
  Fayetteville, North Carolina

• North Carolina Soldiers' Home
  Raleigh, North Carolina

Oklahoma

• Oklahoma Confederate Home (Oklahoma Veterans Center)
  Ardmore, Oklahoma

South Carolina

• Confederate Home for Soldiers and Sailors (South Carolina Confederate Infirmary)

Columbia, South Carolina

Tennessee

• Confederate Soldiers’ Home (Tennessee Soldiers' Home)
  Hermitage, Tennessee

Texas

• Texas Confederate Home for Men
  Austin, Texas

• Texas Confederate Woman's Home
  north of Austin, Texas

Virginia

• Virginia Confederate Soldiers' Home
  Richmond, Virginia

Family History Library

Arkansas

• Old Soldiers Home, Arkansas Confederate and Widows (Worldcat) FHL 976.7 M28i by Connie Pickett. Arranged alphabetically by name of veteran or widow and includes the county and date.

Georgia

• Wight, Willard E. Index to Registers of Inmates of the Confederate Soldiers Home of Georgia. Atlanta, Georgia: Georgia Deptartment of Archives and History, 1964. Volume 1 1901–1913 FHL 1445835 Volume 2 1913–1927 FHL 1445836 Contents include name, occupation, county of residence, date of birth, date and place entered military service, rank, company, regiment, when and where wounded, when and where taken prisoner, when and where put on specific detail, when and where separated from service, commanding officers, branch of service, age upon admission to home, date entered home, relatives, date of death or discharge, and date and place of burial.

• Confederate Soldier's Home of Georgia Register of Inmates, 1901-1941 (Worldcat) The list of inmates represented in this collection is not comprehensive. The information was copied from three registers kept at the Home, between 1901 and 1941.

Louisiana

• Soldiers Home of Louisiana (New Orleans) Register Books 1884–1934 and index 1905–1944. FHL 1685399 Entries include date of admission, name, birth date and place, company, regiment, state, cause of admission, by whom sent, date of leaving, and cause of discharge.

Missouri

• Confederate Pension Applications and Soldiers’ Home Admission Applications. Missouri Adjutant General’s Office. Salt Lake City, Utah: The Genealogical Society of Utah, 1977. FHL 1021119 Contents include name, birth date, birthplace, residence, length of residence in Missouri, date of enlistment, rank, unit of service, death date, and burial place.

Note:The Missouri Confederate Pension Applications and Soldiers Home Applications are now available online.

• Applications for Confederate Home & Pension (Worldcat)

Tennessee

• The Tennessee Confederate Soldier’s Home: Marching Out of the Mist Into the Light... (Worldcat) FHL 976.8 M2s by Judith A. Strange contains rosters of veterans at the home from 1890 to 1934. Entries typically include date and place of birth, enlistment date, unit served, current residence, occupation, and death date or discharge date from the home. Also contains an index to applications to the home listing name, county of residence, and unit served, as well as cemetery lists for the home cemetery.

Texas

• Roster of the Residents of the Texas Confederate Old Soldiers Home in Austin, Texas. Austin, Texas: Texas State Library, 1990. {{FHL|1689628)}

• Texas Confederate Home Roster : with added data from Confederate Home ledgers (Worldcat)

• Roster of Confederate Home : Austin, Texas (Worldcat)

Virginia

• Robert E. Lee Camp Confederate Soldier’s Home Application for Admission, 1884–1941. Richmond, Virginia: Virginia State Library, 1995.FHL 2026354 and FHL 2027890.

For more information on where to find Confederate home records see the "Locating Old Soldiers Home Records" chart at US Military Old Soldier Home Records.