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• A Guide to the Civil War Materials of the Earl Gregg Swem Library at the College of William and Mary

• Alabama Archives: Military Records

  ADAH Alabama Department of Archives & History, Montgomery, Alabama.

  • ADAH: Alabama Civil War Service Database

  • ADAH: Confederate Officers Album

    This collection contains cartes-de-viste photographs of officers who served in the Confederate army. The majority of the officers served as either major generals or brigadier generals in the Confederate forces.

  • Alabama Confederate Military Unit Histories

• Bardstown Civil War Museum - Bardstown, Kentucky

• Beauvoir, Jefferson Davis Home and Presidential Library

  Biloxi, Mississippi.

• Civil War Library and Museum

  Pennsylvania.

• Civil War Life - The Soldiers' Museum

  Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania, Virginia.

• Civil War Records in the Florida State Archives

• Civil War Research at the Minnesota Historical Society

  Index to records held by the Minnesota Historical Society.

• Civil War Room | CarnegieCarnegie

  The Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall is home to a true national treasure: the Capt. Thomas Espy Post No. 153 of the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR). Historical and genealogical records from the post-Civil War Union fraternal society. The Captain Thomas Espy met in Chartiers and Mansfield before locating in Carnegie, Pennsylvania.

• Connecticut State Library

  • Databases of Individuals listed in the Connecticut State Archives Records

    Fitch's Home for Soldiers Database and Noble Pension Database (Records relating to Civil War and Spanish American War Veterans), and World War I Veterans Database.

    • Fitch's Home for Soldiers

      Fitch's Home for Soldiers and Orphans (1863-1940), also known as the Noroton Home, located in Darien, Connecticut, was first erected by Benjamin Fitch for soldiers and the children of soldiers and was dedicated July 4, 1864. It was incorporated by legislation in 1864 and until 1883 the Home received limited aid from the State of Connecticut. In 1887, the State assumed control and renamed the home Fitch's Home for Soldiers.

    • Noble Pension Database

      General William H. Noble and his daughter Henrietta M. Noble, Pension Agents in Bridgeport, assisted veterans and their descendants to secure pensions from the United States Government.

  • Research Guide to Manuscript Military Resources at the Connecticut State Library

    • Research Guide to Civil War Materials at the Connecticut State Library

    • Research Guide to Mexican War Sources at the Connecticut State Library

• Echoes Through Time

  Located at Eastern Hills Mall in Williamsville, NY, we specialize in the Civil War era (also known as the War Between the States), making us the ONLY Civil War museum in Western New York.

• Georgia Archives Military Records

  • Civil War

• Gettysburg National Military Park Library & Research Center

  Pennsylvania.

• Grand Army of the Republic Civil War Museum and Library

  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

• Hill College - Harold B. Simpson History Complex

  The Confederate Research Center was founded in 1963. Includes information on both Confederate and Union soldiers.

• Library Guide to U.S. Civil War Resources

  University of Tennessee Libraries.

• Military Records: Civil War (1861–1865)

  From the Kansas State Historical Society.

• Missouri State Archives

  • SOS, Missouri - State Archives: Civil War Resources

  • SOS, Missouri - Union Provost Marshal Papers: 1861 - 1866

    The microfilm collection contains thousands of pages of documents detailing the way the provost marshal affected the lives of Missouri citizens who came into contact with the Union Army. Please note this database is simply an index to assist researchers in locating information found in the original microfilmed records.

• Museum of the Confederacy

  Richmond, Virginia.

• New England Civil War Museum

  Vernon, Connecticut.