Re: GEN-NYS-L: Union Soldiers

Charles Sullivan (cwsulliv@nr.infi.net)
Sun, 21 Apr 1996 19:10:48 -0400

Susan Pawley <taipei@satelnet.org> wrote:
>Hi Folks!
>Does anyone know where I can find, preferably online, and preferably
>searchable (yes, I always try for the impossible!) database of the
>rosters of Union Civil War Soldiers?
>
>Also, is there any way to search the rosters via state, ie., New York?
>Finally, does anyone know if there is a way to search the rosters of
>Civil War Vets who recieved pensions as a result of being participants
>in the War?

There's a National Park Service project underway to computerize all
CW soldiers' names (Union at least), but I think it's still a few
years from completion. It's being carried out by volunteers and
managed by the Civil War Center at Louisiana State Univ. I haven't
checked in a while so you might want to look at their web site for
a status report:
http://www.cwc.lsu.edu

It's not clear whether the end result will be searchable online as
the intent was to have a terminal at National Park sites where visitors
could punch up their CW ancestors.

Failing that, the National Archives publishes microfilm indexes to
Union soldiers' service records organized by state, then surname.
There is also a consolidated pension index which covers all states
organized by surname. For the appropriate film numbers, check their
Gopher:
gopher://gopher.nara.gov:70/11/genealog/holdings/catalogs

Regards,
Charles Sullivan

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