Did He Serve

1
Did He Serve?

• Successfully Researching
• Civil War Military Records

2
First Establish Eligibility

• Age?
• As a rule, born at least by 1843
• Family stories, mementos
• Geographic Location

3
Determine Unit

• Printed indexes
• Online information

4
Locate Service Records

• Consolidated Military Service Records
• Union
• Indices individual by state
• Confederate
• Consolidated index M253 (also indiv. by state)
• Unit / Organizational Records
• Union M861
• Confederate M594

5
Supporting Information

• Family information letters, photographs
• Unit histories
• Map collections
• Photograph collections
• Court records
• Newspapers
• Cemeteries

6
Pensions

• Confederate at the state level
• Union
• Frederick Dodd
• Aaron Lanfare
• George H. Duncan
• James Patrick Holdcraft

7
Putting It All Together

• Chronology
• From CSMR
• From Unit History
• From Pension