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About Military Records
BACKGROUND BOOKS & INDEXES MICROFILM



Background

Military records provide an important resource for genealogical research. For the most part, military records are federal records and are therefore more uniform and reliable than local records. One drawback regarding military records is inadequate or nonexistent indexes, however, many new guides and indexes are being developed.

The United States has been involved in five Colonial wars, several international wars and Indian wars, one civil war, and two "conflicts". Wars have occurred almost as regularly as the census has been taken. The records from these wars provide genealogists with the means to learn much more about veteran ancestors.

Two principal categories of military records are available, service records and records of veteran's benefits. Service records include muster rolls, rosters, correspondence, prisoner-of-war records, and hospital records. They often include a physical description, date and place of birth, and residence at the time of enlistment. The Guide to Genealogical Research in the National Archives describes a compiled military service record as follows "card abstracts from each individual soldier were placed into a jacket-envelope bearing the soldier's name, rank, and military unit. The jacket-envelope, containing one or more abstracts and, in some instances, including one or more original documents relating specifically to one soldier, is called a compiled military service record." Service records are not arranged by surname. You must know when and where in the armed forces an ancestor served and whether he was an officer or an enlisted man to search service records.

Pension and bounty land application files can serve as a solution to this problem. They are arranged alphabetically by the surname of the veteran. These records usually indicate when and where a veteran served and can aid in the retrieval of an ancestor's service records. In addition, pension records are useful because they contain information on a veteran's life after service. To be eligible for a pension a veteran had to prove military service. This proof often included evidence of name, rank, military unit, period of service, residence, birthplace, date of birth or age, postwar migration, and property owned. These files may include notarized statements from other veterans, friends or neighbors as well as deeds or any kind of document that would help approval of the application.

Additional military records of use to genealogists include rejected pension applications, disability, widow's pension applications, and bounty land applications.

Some military records for early wars and some records for Confederate soldiers will be found at a state level, often at the State Archives or State Adjutant Generals Office.

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Books and Indexes

For further information on researching ancestors who served in the military and for a listing of indexes available in the Bizelli-Fleming Local History Collection at the Kathryn Linnemann Branch Library, check the
On Line Catalog under the subject MILITARY GENEALOGY and also GENEALOGY MILITARY. For information on specific wars look under the war being searched, for example: REVOLUTIONARY WAR GENEALOGY or CIVIL WAR GENEALOGY.




Book Resources for Civil War Research
BORDER & GUERRILLA WARFARE GENEALOGY-
LISTS & BURIALS
GENERAL HISTORIES
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GENERAL HISTORIES -
CONFEDERATE EMPHASIS
GENERAL HISTORIES -
UNION EMPHASIS
MISCELLANEOUS PERSONAL NARRITIVE & BIOGRAPHY UNIT HISTORIES
H = Local History Collection, Circulating Book
HR = Local History Collection, Reference Book


Border and Guerrilla Warfare

H, HR
973.742 Brant, Marley.
The Outlaw Youngers, a Confederate Brotherhood.
New York: Madison Books, 1992.

HR
973.742 Breihan, Carl W.
Quantrill and his Civil War Guerrillas.
New York: Promontory Press, 1959.

H, HR
973.742 Breihan, Carl W.
Ride the Razor's Edge, The Younger Brothers Story.
Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing Company, 1992.

HR
973.742 Brophy, Patrick.
Bushwackers of the Border.
Nevada, MO: Vernon County Historical Society, 1980.

H, HR
973.742 Brownlee, Richard S.
Gray Ghosts of the Confederacy,
Guerrilla Warfare in the West, 1861-1865
.

Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1958.

H, HR
973.71 Britton, Wiley.
Memoirs of the Rebellion on the Border.
Florissant, MO: Inland Printer Ltd., 1863.

H, HR
973.71 Cottrell, Steve.
Effects of the Civil War on the Early
Settlers in the Area of Present Day Joplin
.

Joplin, MO: Steve Cottrell, 1986.

H, HR
973.71 Cottrell, Steve.
The Battle of Carthage.
Joplin, MO: Steve Cottrell, 1986.

HB, HRB
James Dyer, Robert.
Jesse James and the Civil War in Missouri.
Columbia, MO: University of Missouri. 1994.

HR
973.742 Edwards, John N.
Noted Guerrillas, or the Warfare of the Border.
Dayton, OH: Morningside Bookshop, 1877, 1976.

H, HR
973.7478 Fellman, Michael.
Inside War, the Guerrilla Conflict in
Missouri During the American Civil War
.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.

H, HR
976.71 Hartman, Mary.
Bald Knobbers, Vigilantes on the Ozarks Frontier.
Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing Company, 1988.

H, HR
973.747 Ingenthron, Elmo.
Border-Land Rebellion, A History of the
Civil War on the Missouri-Arkansas Border
.

Branson, MO: The Ozarks Mountaineer, 1980.

H, HR
973.742 McCorkle, John.
Three Years with Quantrill.
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma, 1992.

H, HR
973.71 Miles, Kathleen W.
Bitter Ground, The Civil War in Missouri's Golden Valley:
Benton, Henry and St. Clair Counties
.

Warsaw, MO: The Printery, 1971.

H, HR
973.71 Monaghan, Jay.
Civil War on the Western Border, 1854-1865.
Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1955.

H, HR
973.747 Ponder, Jerry.
A History of the 15th Missouri Cavalry Regiment, CSA, 1862-1865.
Doniphan, MO: Ponder Books, 1994.

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Genealogy - Lists and Burials

HR
929.309 Anders, Leslie.
"Confederate Roll of Honor" Missouri.
Warrensburg, Central Missouri Genealogical Society and Library, Inc.,1989.

HR
929.377 Dilts, Bryan Lee.
1890 Missouri Census Index of Civil War Veterans or Their Widows.
Salt Lake City, Index Publishing, 1985.

HR
977.839 Heonig, Veryl.
St. Charles County: a List of Civil War Veterans
Compiled from Several Sources
.

St. Charles, MO: St. Charles County Genealogical Society, 1993.

HR
929.309 Julia Dent Grant Tent.
Daughters of the Union Veterans of the Civil War 1861-1865.
St. Louis, MO: Julia Dent Grant Tent, 1990.

H, HR
929.309 Julia Dent Grant Tent.
St. Louis Our - Civil War Heritage,
Daughters of the Union Veterans of the Civil War,
1861-1865, Volumes 1,2,3
.

St. Louis, MO: Julia Dent Grant Tent, 1992.

HR
929.309 Ozarks Genealogical Society.
Confederate Organizations Officers and Posts 1861-1865,
Missouri Units
.

Springfield, MO: Ozarks Genealogical Society, Inc., 1988.

H, HR
929.309 Parker, Edward.
Selected Union Burials Missouri Units.
Columbia, MO: The State Historical Society of Missouri, 1988.

H, HR
929.309 State Historical Society of Missouri.
Missouri Union Burials Missouri Units.
Columbia, MO: The State Historical Society of Missouri, 1989.



General Histories

H, HR
973.71 Bartles, Carolyn M.
The Civil War in Missouri Day by Day, 1861-1865.
Shawnee, KS: Two Trails Genealogy Shop, 1992.

H, HR
973.71 Brugioni, Dino A.
The Civil War in Missouri As Seen From the Capital City.
Jefferson City, MO: Summers Publishing, 1987.

H, HR
973.71 Cottrell, Steve.
The Civil War in the Ozarks.
Carthage, MO: Steve Cottrell, 1984.

HR
973.71
The Civil War in Missouri, 1861-1865: a War Within a War.

HR
973.71 Fannin, William.
Defenders of the Border: Missouri's Union
Military Organizations in the Civil War
.

Jefferson City, MO: Mid-Missouri Genealogical Society, Inc., 1982.

H, HR
973.71 King, James B.
The Tilley Treasure.
Point Lookout, MO: School of the Ozarks, 1984.

H, HR
973.747 Parrish, William E.
Turbulent Partnership, Missouri and the Union 1861-1865.
Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1963.

H, HR
973.747 Parrish, William E,
Missouri Under Radical Rule, 1865-1870.
Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1965.

H, HR
973.7 Suderow, Bryce A.
Thunder in Arcadia Valley, Price's Defeat, September 27, 1864.
Cape Girardeau, MO: Center for Regional History
and Cultural Heritage Southeast Missouri State University, 1986.

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General Histories - Confederate Emphasis

H, HR
973.71 Bradley, James.
The Confederate Mail Carrier or From Missouri to Arkansas,
through Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee.
An Unwritten Leaf of the "Civil War."

Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 1894, 1990.

H, HR
977.8894
The Civil War in Ripley County, Missouri.
Doniphan, MO: The Prospect-News, 1992.

HR
973.742
Confederate Military History, A Library of
Confederate States History, in Seventeen Volumes
.

..., 1988. (Missouri, Volume 12). Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot Publishing Co, 1987.

H, HR
973.71 Mudd, Joseph A.
With Porter in North Missouri. 1909.
Washington, D.C.: The National Publishing Company, 1992.


General Histories - Union Emphasis

HR
973.71 Adamson, Hans Christian
Rebellion in Missouri: 1861.
Nathaniel Lyon and His Army of the West.

Philadelphia: Chilton Company, 1968.

HR BR> 973.747 Edom, Clifton C.
Missouri Sketch Book. A Collection of
Words and Pictures of the Civil War
.

Columbia, MO: Lucas Brothers, 1983.

HR
973.735 Kemp, Hardy A.
About Nathaniel Lyon Brigadier General
United States Army Volunteers and Wilson's Creek
.

Prairie Village, KS: Kemp, 1978.

HR
973.71 Knox, Thomas W.
Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field: Southern Adventure
in the Time of War, Life with the Union
Armies and Residence on a Louisiana Plantation
.

New York: Da Capo Press, 1969.

HR
973.7 McElroy, John.
The Struggle for Missouri.
Washington, D.C.: The National Tribune Company, 1909.

HR
973.747 Peterson, Cyrus A. and Joseph Mills Hanson.
Pilot Knob, the Thermocouple of the West.
Cape Girardeau, MO: Ramfre Press, 1914, 1964.

H, HR
973.747 Rowan, Steven, trans.
Germans for a Free Missouri, Translations
From the St. Louis Radical Press, 1857-1862
.

Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1983.

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Miscellaneous

HR
973.71 Cromie, Alice.
Pilot A Tour Guide to the Civil War.
Nashville, TN: Rutledge Hill Press, Inc., 1990.

HR
929.309 Irvine, Dallas.
Pilot Military Operations of the Civil War,
A Guide-Index to the Official Records of
the Union and Confederate Armies, 1861-1865
.

Volumes V and VI. Washington: National Archives and Records Service, 1980.

H, HR
977.8 Tatham, Robert.
Pilot Missouri Treasures and Civil War Sites.
Clinton, MO: The Printery, 1982.


Personal Narratives and Biographies

H, HR
973.747 Crowley, William J.
Pilot Tennessee Cavalier in the Missouri Cavalry, Major Sketch.
Columbia, MO: Kelly Press, Inc., 1978.

HR
973.742 Hildebrand, Samuel S.
Autobiography of Samuel S. Hildebrand,
the Renowned Missouri "Bushwacker"
and Unconquerable Robroy of America
.

Jefferson City, MO: State Times Book and Job Printing House, 1870.

H, HR
977.8453 Mendenhall, Willard.
Missouri Ordeal, 1862-1864: Diaries of Willard Hall Mendenhall.
Danville, CA: Margaret Mendenhall Frazier, 1985.

HB, HRB
Lyon Phillips, Christopher.
Damned Yankee: the Life of General Nathaniel Lyon.
Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1990.

H, HR
973.742 Schantz, John R.
"Found no Bushwackers". The 1864 Diary of Sgt. James P. Mallery.
Nevada, MO: Vernon County Historical Society, 1988.

HRB
Bannon Tucker, Phillip Thomas.
The Confederacy's Fighting Chaplain: Father John B. Bannon.
Tuscaloosa. AL: University of Alabama, 1992.

HRB
Hildebrand
Sam Hildebrand Rides Again.
Bonne Terre, MO: Bonne Terre Printing Company, 1967.

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Unit Histories

H, HR
973.747 Anders, Leslie.
The Eighteenth Missouri.
Indianapolis, IN: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1968.

HR
973.747 Anders, Leslie.
The Twenty-First Missouri, From Home Guard to Union Regiment.
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1975.

H, HR
973.747 Anderson, Ephraim.
Memoirs: Historical and Personal;
Including the Campaigns of the
First Missouri Confederate Brigade
.

Dayton, OH: Morningside Bookshop, 1868, 1988.

H, HR
973.742 Bevier, R. S.
History of the First and Second Missouri Confederate Brigades, 1861-1865.
Inland Printer Limited, 1879, 1985.

H, HR
973.747 Burns, William S.
Recollections of the 4th Missouri Cavalry.
Dayton, OH: Morningside House, Inc., 1988.

HR
973.71
Civil War Unit Histories: Regimental Histories and Personal Narratives.
University Publications of America. 1990.

H, HR
973.742 Gottschalk, Phil.
In Deadly Earnest, the History of the First Missouri Brigade, CSA.
Columbia, MO: Missouri River Press, 1991.

H, HR
973.747 Tucker, Phillip Thomas.
The South's Finest, The First Missouri Confederate
Brigade From Pea Ridge to Vicksburg
.

Shippensburg, PA: The White Mane Publishing Company, Inc., 1993.

H, HR
973.747 Ware, Eugene Fitch.
The Lyon Campaign in Missouri, Being a History of
the First Iowa Infantry and of the Causes Which
Led Up to Its Organization, and How It Earned
the Thanks of Congress, Which it Got
.

Iowa City, IA: Camp Pope Bookshop, 1907, 1991.

H, HR
973.71 Woodruff, W. E.
With Light Guns in '61-'65, Reminiscences of
Eleven Arkansas, Missouri and Texas Light
Batteries, in the Civil War
.

Little Rock, AR: Eagle Press, 1903.

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Microfilm Resources

All military records on microfilm in the Bizelli-Fleming Local History Collection relate to the Civil War. Microfilm resources are not available for interlibrary loan.
Some military records are available on microfilm and microfiche in the Bizelli-Fleming Local History Collection. Currently all records relate to individuals who served in Missouri during the Civil War.

Military Records - Civil War
Military records-Miscellaneous & WWI


Special Scheduals for the Eleventh Census 1890 - Missouri
This special schedule enumerates Union veterans and widows of Union veterans of the Civil War. All Missouri counties are available.

Included on the microfilm are the names, organizations, and length of service of those who had served in the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps of the United States in the war of the rebellion
who were living at the time the census was taken in 1890. Also included are the widows of soldiers, sailors, or marines.

For the individuals listed the following information is included:

1. Name of the veteran, or if he did not survive, the names of both the widow and her
deceased husband

2. The veteran's rank, company, regiment or vessel
3. Date of enlistment, date of discharge, and length of service in years, months, and days
4. Post office and address of each person listed
5. Disability incurred by the veteran and remarks necessary to complete statement of his
term of service


Roll # 27 - Jefferson, St. Charles, St. Louis
also contains special schedules for the following
institutions:

St. Louis County - City Hospital
Home for the Homeless
Jefferson Barracks
Little Sisters of the Poor
Masonic Home of Missouri
Missouri Pacific Railway Hospital
St. Louis Insane Asylum
St. Louis Poor House
U. S. Marine Hospital
Cole County - Missouri Penitentiary

Missing information:

Schedules for Alabama through Kansas and approximately half of Kentucky have been destroyed.



INDEX TO COMPILED SERVICE RECORDS OF CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS
WHO SERVED IN ORGANIZATIONS FROM THE STATE OF MISSOURI

16 rolls - listed by surname

COMPILED SERVICE RECORDS OF CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS WHO
SERVED IN ORGANIZATIONS FROM THE STATE OF MISSOURI

193 rolls - arranged by unit name

INDEX TO COMPILED SERVICE RECORDS OF VOLUNTEER UNION SOLDIERS
WHO SERVED IN ORGANIZATIONS FROM THE STATE OF MISSOURI

54 ROLLS - listed by surname

COMPILED SERVICE RECORDS OF VOLUNTEER UNION SOLDIERS
WHO SERVED IN ORGANIZATIONS FROM THE STATE OF MISSOURI

130 (of 840) rolls - arranged by unit name

The indexes to compiled service records are reproductions of alphabetical card indexes of soldiers belonging to units from the State of Missouri. An index card gives the name of the soldier, his rank, and the unit in which he served.

The compiled service records consist of a jacket-envelope for each soldier, labeled with his name and typically containing:

1. card abstracts of entries relating to the soldier as found in original muster rolls, returns, rosters, descriptive rolls, hospital registers, union prison registers and rolls, parole lists, and registers of officers

2. the originals of any papers relating solely to the particular soldier


CIVIL WAR UNIT HISTORIES - MISSOURI
113 fiche

The information included on these fiche consists of microfilmed copies of histories or personal narratives written about the Civil War or particular units in existence during the Civil War. Many of the books which are reproduced are long out of print and most are not indexed. Both Union and Confederate histories are available, however information is not available on all units.



MISSOURI, CIVIL WAR INDEX CARDS OF MISSOURI SOLDIERS, 1861-1865
"War Between the States"

This is a microfilm copy of a card index listed alphabetically by surname. They appear to be records of Confederate soldiers. Most cards include information on rank, service, state and place of enlistment. They often list place of birth and residence as well as information about service. The card often lists the source of the information.

Contents - listed by roll number

V206-001 Aark, John - Britt, William G
V206-002 Brittain, Robert - Clark, D. F.
V206-003 Clark, D. M. - Duggans, ______ G.
V206-004 Duggans, John W. - Funk, F.
V206-005 Funk, Letcher - Henry, Richard W.
V206-006 Henry, S. G. - King, Aaron W.
V206-007 King, Alexander - Martin, R. S.
V206-008 Matson - Painter, Henry C.
V206-009 Painter, J. T. - Sands, Constantene
V206-0010 Sands, R. J. - Thatcher, Charles
V206-0011 Thelkelb, E. - White, Obed M.
V206-0012 White, Oliver G. - Zumwalt, W. H.

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