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• Arkansas History Commission - Request Form For Photocopies of Arkansas Confederate Pensions

• Arkansas History Commission - Request Form For Photocopies of Arkansas Military Service Records

• Civil War Records

  An article from the National Archives.

• Civil War Records: An Introduction and Invitation

  Article by Michael P. Musick from the National Archives web site.

• Confederate Ancestor Research Guide

• Confederate Military Records - Civil War Military Records in the U.S. National Archives

  A how-to guide by Howard Beckman.

• Confederate Military Records at the Archives

  South Carolina.

• Confederate Pension Records

  An article from the National Archives.

• Confederate Pension Rolls, Veterans and Widows

  From the Library of Virginia Digital Collections.

• Electronic Army Serial Number Merged File, ca. 1938 - 1946

  Online file available as two tables in the Access to Archival Databases tool. The main table is the Army Serial Number Enlistment Card Records table that has records for almost 9 million men and women who enlisted in the Army and Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. The Army Serial Number Reserve Corps Statistical Card Records table has records for approximately 300,000 reservists in the Enlisted Reserve Corps.

• Florida Confederate Pension Application Files

  Search this online index then follow the instructions for ordering a copy of the pension file.

• Georgia Confederate Pension Applications - State of Georgia Department of Archives & History

  The purpose of this community service project is to digitize the microfilm associated with the pension applications of Georgia's Confederate soldiers and their widows..

• How to Obtain Military Pension Files from the Department of Veterans Affairs

• Index to Confederate Pension Applications

  Texas.

• Index to Oklahoma's Confederate Pension Records

• Louisiana State Archives: Confederate Pension Applications Index

  The index contains over 49,000 names that were included in pension applications submitted to the Board of Pension Commissioners. The records were later transferred to the Archives after the last pension was paid in the 1950's. More than 18,000 applications were microfilmed and are available to researchers at the Archives Library.

• National Personnel Records Center

  Military Personnel Records NPRC (MPR).

• Soldiers of the First World War — Canadian Expeditionary Force

  An index to the personnel files of over 600,000 soldiers that enlisted during the First World War. Copies of over 50,000 pages of Attestation papers have been scanned and are available online here.

• United States Civil War Service and Pension Records

  Scanned image examples.