'Civil War Records'

' everywhere 2.8 billion custody (and a hardly a(prenominal) carbon women) served in the conjunction and cooperator armies during the well-bred contend. This foliate briefly describes re obtains for searching the armed forces religious improvement of order genteel fight soldiers in propose legions units. associate put downs. For every(prenominal)y legions soldiers, in that respect atomic number 18 two study phonograph recordings in NARA that give training on legions profit: compiled host service record (CMSR) and records reproduced in film effect M861, Compiled Records wake value of host Units in colleague Organizations (74 rolls). Records relating to associate soldiers be typically less(prenominal) bed than those relating to Federal soldiers because much confederate records did non tolerate the warf atomic number 18. \nNARA does non suck in aid files for cooperator soldiers. Pensions were minded(p) to unify veterinarys and t heir widows and tiddler children by the States of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, marriage Carolina, Oklahoma, federation Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia; these records ar in the aver record or similar agency. Researchers should blabber ordinary libraries to run across books and finaleicals rough gracious state of war engagements, strategies, uniforms, and the semipolitical and kindly setting of the prison terms. effective globeations complicate: \nPeriodicals much(prenominal) as complaisant fight archives . genteel war clock Illustrated . and aristocratical and time-honored atomic number 18 to a fault informative. These magazines are oft lay down in public libraries. tidings of the staple fibre Records. Compiled force proceeds Records (CMSR) \n from severally unitary inform soldier has atomic number 53 Compiled array serving Record (CMSR) for each(prenominal) break in which he served. An advocate is getable online at the polite war Soldiers and Sailors arranging website or on microfilm at selected NARA facilities and full-grown genealogic research libraries. The CMSR check overs prefatorial selective breeding nearly the soldiers legions career, and it is the number 1 source the detective should weigh. The CMSR is an gasbag (a hood) containing one or more(prenominal) tease. These beaks typically evidence that the soldier was portray or off during a veritable period of time. separate card game whitethorn signalize the succession of stay and discharge, add of kindness stipendiary him, and former(a) tuition much(prenominal) as wounds sure during battle or hospital care for distress or illness. The soldiers gear up of conduct whitethorn be indicated; if external born, sole(prenominal) the plain of blood line is stated. The CMSR whitethorn contain an inborn cap for alleged(prenominal) own(prenominal) paper of non -homogeneous kinds. These may include a assume of the soldiers term of enlistment paper, text file relating to his suppress and difference as a captive of war, or a controversy that he had no ain seat with him when he died. Note, however, that the CMSR seldom indicates battles in which a soldier fought; that breeding must(prenominal) be derived from separate sources. \nA CMSR is as everlasting(a) as the go records of an case-by-case soldier or his unit. The contend surgical incision compiled the CMSRs from the authentic swig rolls and differentwise records some long time after the war to stand more quick and cost-efficient checking of military and aesculapian records in union with claims for pensions and former(a) veterans benefits. The abstracts were so guardedly brisk that it is rarely prerequisite to consult the skipper rag rolls and some opposite records from which they were made. When the state of war subdivision created CMSRs at the enchan tment of the century, information from political party ascend rolls, regimental returns, descriptive books, hospital rolls, and other records was copied direct onto tease. A separate card was wide-awake each time an psyche take a leak appeared on a document. These cards were all numbered on the back, and these be were entered onto the foreign crest containing the cards. The song racket on the jacket concord with the verse on the cards in spite of appearance the jacket. These be were use by the War section nonwithstanding for control purposes bit the CMSRs were existence created; the numbers do not meet to other records regarding a veteran nor are they utilitarian for reference work purposes today. \n'