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The following list of records of
Confederate soldiers which are held by various state archives is offered as a convenience
to St. Louis Public Library users who are researching ancestors who served in the
Confederate Army, Navy, and Marine Corps. Most of these records are not in the collection
of the National Archives, and so can only be accessed at the state archives, although some
state archives are beginning to make both indexes to Civil War records and facsimiles of
some records available on their websites. For each state, a list
of records held by the state archives, its mailing address, telephone number, and web
address, and a note about its research policy are provided. Please notify us of any
changes in addresses or telephone numbers (webref@slpl.lib.mo.us).
| Alabama |
1. Alabama Confederate pension applications,
1868-1955 2. Alabama Confederate service records, 1861-1865
3. Alabama Soldiers & Sailors Who Died in the North While Prisoners
of War
4. Census of Alabama Confederate Veterans, 1907
5. Census of Alabama Confederate Veterans & Widows, 1921
6. Census of Alabama Confederate Veterans & Widows Aged 80 Years Or
Older, 1927
7. Oaths of Allegiance, Alabama Confederate Officers
Alabama Department of Archives & History
624 Washington Avenue, Montgomery, AL 36130
(334) 242-4435
http://www.archives.state.al.us/referenc/military.html
Will perform limited searches of indexed materials. One question per
inquiry. Research requests from non-residents must include non-refundable $20.00 fee.
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| Arkansas |
1. Arkansas Confederate Service Records 2. Arkansas Confederate Pension Files, 1891-1939
3. Arkansas Confederate Deceased Pensioners (by county, then by name)
4. Miscellaneous Arkansas Confederate Pension Records
5. Arkansas Confederate Home, 1907-1957
6. Census of Arkansas Confederate Pensioners, 1911-1912
7. Indexes to Confederate Pensions in Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Texas
8. Arkansas Ex-Confederate Amnesty Papers
Arkansas History & State Archives Commission
One Capitol Mall, Little Rock, AR 72201
(501) 682-6900
http://www.state.ar.us/ahc/material.htm
Staff won't perform searches for the public; they will make copies of
military service or pension records (telephone orders are not acccepted).
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| Florida |
1. Florida Confederate Muster Rolls, 1861-1865
(by regiment) 2. Florida Confederate Navy & Marine Corps
Personnel
3. Pay Vouchers, 8th Florida Infantry Regiment
4. Florida Confederate Pension Index, 1885-1954
5. Correspondence of Florida Pension Board, 1887-1905
6. Florida Confederate Soldiers Home (records kept at Jacksonville
Public Library, 122 N. Ocean St., Jacksonville, FL 32202)
7. Election returns, 1824-1926
8. Commissions & oaths of State Militia Officers, 1846-1920
9. Veterans' Graves Registration Project (WPA)
10. Case Files of Florida Ex-Confederates Who Applied for Presidential
Pardons, 1865-1867
11. Census of Union-Occupied District of Florida, 1864-65
12. Comptroller's Tax Rolls for wartime Florida counties
Florida State Archives
500 S. Bronough Street, Tallahassee, FL 32399
(850) 487-2073
http://dlis.dos.state.fl.us/barm/fsa/civilwar.htm
Will perform limited searches of indexed materials. One question per
inquiry. Will accept phone or e-mail inquiries.
E-mail: barm@mail.dos.state.fl.us
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| Georgia |
1. Georgia Soldiers Roster 2. Georgia Confederate Pension Applications
3. Lists of Men Subject to Military Duty, March 1862
4. Militia Enrollment Lists, December 1863
5. Muster Rolls of Georgia State Troops & Georgia State Line,
6. Roster of Commissioned Officers in the Georgia Militia, 1864
7. Families of Soldiers Supplied With Salt, 1862-1864
8. Georgia Confederate Home, 1901-1941
9. Georgia Confederate Burial Lists (incomplete)
10. Quartermaster General's Files
11. UDC typescripts of soldiers' letters, filed by regiment
Georgia Department of Archives & History
303 Capitol Avenue, Atlanta, GA 30334
(404) 656-2350
http://www.sos.state.ga.us/archives/rs/grs.htm
Will perform limited searches of indexed materials. One question per
inquiry. Research requests from non-residents must include $25 non-refundable fee.
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| Kentucky (at Kentucky
Department of Library & Archives) |
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1. Kentucky Confederate Pensions (50 rolls
microfilm, index on first roll) 2. Pewee Confederate Home
(registers for 1903-1909, 1912)
3. Kentucky Ex-Confederate Petitions for Amnesty, 1865-1867
4. Union and Confederate Soldiers' Graves Registration
(at Kentucky Department of Military Affairs)
1. Kentucky Militia Muster Rolls, 1792-present (by regiment)
2. Kentucky State Guard Muster Rolls, 1861-1865 (by regiment)
Kentucky Department of Libraries & Archives
P.O. Box 537, Frankfort, KY 40602-0537
(502) 564-8300
http://www.kdla.net/arch/corpolic.htm
Will perform limited searches of indexed materials. One question per
inquiry. Research requests from non-residents must include non-refundable $12 fee.
Kentucky Department of Military Affairs
Military Records & Research Branch
1121 Louisville Road, Frankfort, KY 40601
(502) 564-4883
http://www.state.ky.us/agencies/military/
Can perform limited searches of indexed materials. One question per
inquiry. Will accept inquiries by mail, phone, and e-mail.
E-mail: emiller@bngc.dma.state.ky.us
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| Louisiana |
1. Register of Louisiana Militia Officers,
1855-1862 2. Register of Officers, Louisiana State Troops,
1861-1863
3. United Confederate Veterans, Leroy Stafford Camp, Membership
Lists, 1893-1934
4. Louisiana Confederate Veterans Who Applied for Florida Pensions
5. Louisiana Confederate Pensions
6. Louisiana Confederate Veterans Census, 1911
7. Louisiana Confederate Veterans Residing in Tennessee, 1922
8. The Rebel Archives- Papers of the Louisiana Adjutant General,
1855-1863
Louisiana State Archives
3851 Essen Lane, Baton Rouge, LA 70809
(225) 922-1208
http://www.sec.state.la.us/archives/archives/archives-library.htm
Will perform limited searches of indexed materials. One request per
inquiry.
E-mail: library@sec.state.la.us
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| Mississippi |
1. Roll of Mississippi Confederate Soldiers,
1861-1865 2. Indigent & Disabled Soldiers & Dependents,
1861-1865
3. Paroles of Honor: Mississippi Prisoners of War
4. Deceased Soldiers Claims
5. Proceedings of Courts-Martial of Mississippi Soldiers
6. Petitions for Exemptions from Military Duty & Furloughs
7. Mississippi Military Service Discharges, 1862-1864
8. Register of Commissions in the Army of Mississippi, 1861-1865
9. Mississippi Confederate Pension Files
10. Mississippi Confederate Burials (incomplete)
11. Mississippi Confederate Soldiers Home, 1907-1957
12. WPA Indexes- Mississippi County Service Rosters
Mississippi Census of Veterans, 1907
Mississippi Headstone Applications
Out-Of-State Mississippi Confederate Burials
Mississippi Department of Archives & History
P.O. Box 571, Jackson, MS 39205
(601) 359-6850
http://www.mdah.state.ms.us/arlib/contents/arlib_refrules.html
Will perform limited searches of indexed materials. One request per
inquiry. Research requests from non-residents must include non-refundable $15 fee.
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| Missouri |
1. Missouri State Guard Card File
(Confederate) 2. Enrolled Missouri Militia (EMM) Card File
(Union)
3. Provisional Enrolled Missouri Militia (PEMM) Card File (Union)
4. Missouri Home Guard Card File (Union)
5. U.S.C.T. Card File (Union)
6. U.S.R.C. Card File (Union)
7. Missouri Confederate Home Applications, 1892-1951
8. Missouri Confederate Pensions Applications, 1891-1893
Missouri State Archives
P.O. Box 387, 600 W. Main Street, Jefferson City, MO 65102
(573) 751-4936
http://mosl.sos.state.mo.us/rec-man/archives/pubs/archweb/military.html
Will perform limited searches of indexed materials. One request per
inquiry.
E-mail: archref@sos.mo.gov
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| North Carolina |
1. UDC North Carolina Confederate Gravestone
Records 2. Bounty Payrolls & Artificial Limb Payments (by
county)
3. North Carolina Militia Officers Roster, 1862-1865
4. North Carolina Adjutant General's Roll of Honor, 1861-1865
5. North Carolina Pension Applications
6. North Carolina Soldiers Home Inmate Records, 1911-1936
7. North Carolina Soldiers Home Registers, 1890-1917
8. North Carolina Ex-Confederate Petitions for Pardon
North Carolina State Archives
4614 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699
(919) 733-7305
http://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/sections/archives/arch/mail.htm
Will make copies of materials for researchers if given specific
source citation. One question about one record per inquiry. Research requests from
non-residents must include non-refundable $15 fee.
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| Oklahoma |
1. Oklahoma Pension Files for Confederate
Veterans & Widows
(index available online)
Oklahoma Department of Libraries
200 NE 18th Street, Oklahoma City, OK 73015
(405) 521-2502
http://www.odl.state.ok.us/oar/resources/genealogy.htm
Will perform limited searches of indexed materials. One question per inquiry.
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| South Carolina |
1. South Carolina Civil War Personnel
(alphabetical index) 2. List of Draft Substitutes, 1862
3. Overseers Exempted From the Draft, 1862
4. Confederate Graves in South Carolina (incomplete)
5. Confederate Home Veteran Applications, 1909-1939 (not microfilmed or
indexed)
6. Confederate Home Dependent Apllications, 1909-1957 (not microfilmed
or indexed)
7. Confederate Pension Applications, 1919-1925 (by county, then by name)
8. Applications for Artificial Limbs, 1879-1899
9. South Carolina Roll of Honor
South Carolina Department of Archives & History
8301 Parklane Road, Columbia, SC 2922
(803) 896-6100
http://www.state.sc.us/scdah/newresearch.htm
Will perform limited searches of indexed materials. One question per
inquiry. Will accept mail, phone, or e-mail inquiries (e-mail request form online).
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| Tennessee |
1. Tennessee Confederate Soldiers Index 2. Militia Officer Commission Books (vol. 7 covers Civil War period)
3. Tennessee Confederate Soldiers' Home (applications & registers)
4. Tennessee Confederate Muster Rolls (3 reels of microfilm)
5. Tennessee Confederate Pension Applications
6. Tennessee Veteran Questionaires (1914-15 & 1921)
7. Confederate Cemetery, Franklin, Tennessee
8. Tennessee Confederate Burials
9. United Daughters of the Confederacy, Membership Lists, 1896-1965
10. United Confederate Veterans, Membership Lists, 1887-1922
Tennessee State Library and Archives
403 Seventh Avenue North, Nashville, TN 37243-0312
(615) 741-2764
http://www.state.tn.us/sos/statelib/pubsvs/intro.htm
Will perform limited searches of indexed materials. One question per
inquiry. Will accept queries by phone, mail, or e-mail (e-mail request form online). |
| Texas |
1. Texas Confederate Pension Files 2. Texas Confederate Widows' Pension Files
3. List of Confederate Indigent Families, 1863-1865
4. Texas Confederate Soldiers' Home, 1836-1891, 1891-1963,
1963-present
5. Texas Confederate Widows' Home, 1908-1964
6. Texas Graves of Confederate Soldiers
7. Texas Regiments Muster Roll Abstracts
Texas State Library and Archive
P.O. Box 12927, Austin, TX 78711
(512) 463-5455
http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/agency/contact/contactaris.html
Will perform limit searches of indexed materials. One question per inquiry. Will accept
inquiries by mail, phone, or e-mail.
E-mail: reference.desk@tsl.state.tx.us
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| Virginia |
1. Virginia Confederate Pension Index 2. Virginia Confederate Pension Applications
3. Payments to Disabled Soldiers, 1883-1884
4. General Register of Pensioners, 1888
5. Pension Registers, Confederate Veterans, 1915-1937
(Some pension material is online.)
6. Pension Registers, Confederate Veterans & Widows, 1933-1958
7. Roll of Needy Confederate Women, 1915-1924
8. United Daughters of the Confederacy Memberships Lists, 1925-1928
9. Virginia Confederate Soldiers' Home Applications, 1884-1941
10. Virginia Confederate Soldiers' Home Registers, 1885-1941
11. Virginia Confederate Casualty Records
Library of Virginia
800 E. Broad Street, Richmond, VA 23219
(804) 692-3500
http://www.lva.lib.va.us/pubserv/index.htm
Will perform limited searches of indexed materials. One question per inquiry. Research
requests from non-residents must include non-refundable $15 fee. |
Compiled by
Thomas A. Pearson
Special Collections Department
St. Louis Public Library
August 2001 |