These websites, books and organizations will help you trace Civil War soldiers in your family tree.
Web
Sites
Access Genealogy: Civil War
Records
www.accessgenealogy.com/military/civil
Alabama Department of Archives and History:
Civil War Records
www.archives.state.al.us/referenc/military.html#CivilWar
The American Civil War Home
Page
sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/
American Memory
memory.loc.gov: Click War, Military, then
titles of Civil War collections.
Bits of Blue and Gray
http://www.bitsofblueandgray.com
A Brief Introduction to Genealogy and the
American Civil War
http://www.illinoiscivilwar.org/cwgeneal.html
The Civil War Archive Regimental
Index
www.civilwararchive.com/regim.htm
The Civil War Archive: United States Colored
Troops
www.civilwararchive.com/unioncol.htm
Confederate States Regimental History
Index
history-sites.com/~kjones/
Civil War Era
www.proquest.com: This database of opinion
pamphlets and newspapers from the Civil War years is available at
subscribing libraries.
Civil War Genealogy
homepages.rootsweb.com/~sroots/cwgene.htm
Civil War Resources in the Atlanta
Area
www.historians.org/perspectives/issues/2006/0610/0610ann5.cfm
Civil War Rosters Arranged by
State
civilwarroster.com
Civil War Soldiers and Sailors
System
www.itd.nps.gov/cwss
Confederate States Navy, Museum, Library
& Research Institute
www.csnavy.org
Cyndi's List: US Civil War
cyndislist.com/cw.htm
Genforum Civil War Forum
genforum.genealogy.com/civilwar
Grand Army of the Republic and Related
Research Links
suvcw.org/research.htm
Illinois Civil War Muster and Descriptive
Rolls Database
www.library.sos.state.il.us/departments/archives/datcivil.html
Indiana Civil War Soldiers Database
www.indianadigitalarchives.org/News.aspx?ID=2
Kentucky Civil War Rosters
rootsweb.com/~kymercer/CivilWar/Union
Pennsylvania Civil War Soldier
Databases
www.pacivilwar.com
Prologue: Civil War and
Later Navy Personnel Records at the National Archives,
1861-1924
archives.gov/publications/prologue/1995/summer/navy-records-1861-1924.html
Massachusetts 54th Infantry
www.54thmass.org
Military History Online: Civil War Genealogy
Database
www.militaryhistoryonline.com/genealogy/Default.aspx
National Park Service Civil War Web
Site
cwar.nps.gov/civilwar
New York Divided: Slavery and the Civil
War
www.nydivided.org
Northern NH Civil War Veterans
nhcivilwar.com
North Carolina Civil War Genealogical
Resources
ncmuseumofhistory.org/exhibits/civilwar/resources_section6.html
The Olive Tree Genealogy: Civil War Genealogy
& History
olivetreegenealogy.com/mil/usa/cw.shtml
Researching People of the Civil War
Era
www.civilwarhome.com/faq-gene.htm
US Civil War History Selected Primary and
Secondary Sources
oldsite.library.upenn.edu/vanpelt/guides/civilwar.html
Union Army Regimental History
Index
www.civilwararchive.com/regim.htm
US Military Records Research Outline: Civil
War
www.familysearch.org/eng/search/RG/frameset_rg.asp?Dest=G1&Aid=&Gid=&Lid=&Sid=&Did=&Juris1=&Event=&Year=&Gloss=&Sub=&Tab=&Entry=&Guide=Military.ASP
Vermont in the Civil War
vermontcivilwar.org/research/roots.php
Western Maryland Historical Library: Civil
War
www.whilbr.org/categories.aspx?idcategory=4
Books
Bibliography of State Participation in the Civil
War, 1861-1866 (Martino Publishing Co.)
The Civil War Day by Day: An Almanac
1861-65 by E.B. and Barbara Long
(Da Capo Press)
Civil War Sites: The Official Guide to
Battlefields, Monuments, and More
by the Civil War Preservation Trust (Globe Pequot)
A Compendium of the War of the
Rebellion, 3 volumes, by Frederick H. Dyer (National
Historical Society)
Confederate States Navy Research Guide
by Thomas Truxton Moebs (Moebs Publishing Co., out of print)
The Confederacy: A Guide to the Archives of the
Confederate States of America by Henry Putney Beers (NARA)
Confederate Burials, 28 volumes, by
Raymond W. Watkins (Lauderdale County Department of Archives and
History)
Deaths of Confederate Soldiers in Confederate
Hospitals, 14 volumes, by Raymond W. Watkins (Lauderdale
County Department of Archives and History)
Index to the Roll of Honor by Martha and William
Reamy (Genealogical Publishing Co.)
Military Bibliography of the Civil War
by Charles E. Dornbusch
(New York Public Library)
The Official Military Atlas of the Civil
War by George B. Davis, Calvin D. Cowles and others (The
Fairfax Press)
Official Records of the Union and Confederate
Navies in the War of the Rebellion General Index by Dudley
W. Knox (Antiquarian Press)
Personnel of the Civil War edited by
William Frayne Amann, 2 volumes, (Thomas Yoseloff
Register of Officers of the Confederate States,
1861-1865, Office of Naval Records (J.M. Carroll &
Co.)
Roll of Honor: Civil War Union
Soldiers CD (Genealogical Publishing Co.)
Official Records of the Union and Confederate
Navies in the War of the Rebellion (30 volumes, Government
Printing Office)
The Roster of Union Soldiers,
1861-1865 edited by Janet B. Hewett (33 volumes, Broadfoot
Publishing)
The Roster of Confederate Soldiers,
1861-1865 edited by Janet B. Hewett (16 volumes, Broadfoot
Publishing)
Supplement to the Official Records of the Union
and Confederate Armies edited by Janet B. Hewett (51
volumes, Broadfoot Publishing, out of print)
Union: A Guide to Federal Archives Relating to
the Civil War by Kenneth W. Munden and Henry Putney Beers
(NARA)
The Unpublished Roll of Honor by Mark
Hughes (Genealogical Publishing Co.)
The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official
Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, 70 volumes (Government
Printing Office)
Who Was Who in the Civil War by
Stewart Sifakis (Facts on File)
Organizations
Army Heritage and Education
Center
950 Soldiers Drive, Carlisle, PA 17013, (717) 245-3971
www.carlisle.army.mil/ahec
Civil War Preservation
Trust
1331 H St. N.W., Suite 1001,
Washington, DC 20005, (202)
367-1861
www.civilwar.org
Confederate Research Center
Box 619, Hillsboro, TX 76645, (254) 582-2555
www.hillcollege.edu/museum/crc.html
Daughters of Union Veterans
of the Civil War
503 S. Walnut St., Springfield, IL 62704, (217) 544-0616
www.duvcw.org
Grand Army of the Republic
Museum and Library
4278 Griscom St., Philadelphia, PA 19124, (215) 289-6484
garmuslib.org
Library of
Congress
101 Independence Ave. SE, Washington, DC 20540, (202)
707-5000
www.loc.gov
Library of
Virginia
800 E. Broad St., Richmond, VA 23219, (804) 692-3500
www.lva.lib.va.us
Military Order of the Loyal
Legion of the United States
1805 Pine St., Philadelphia, PA 19103
suvcw.org/mollus.htm
National Archives and Records
Administration
700 Pennsylvania Ave. NW,
Washington, DC 20408,
(866) 272-6272
archives.gov
New England Civil War Museum
Thomas J. O'Connell Library
14 Park Place, Vernon, CT 06066,
(860) 870-3563
pages.cthome.net/ne.civilwar.mus
Sons of Confederate
Veterans
Box 59, Columbia, TN 38401,
(800) 693-4943
www.scv.org
Sons of Union Veterans of the
Civil War
Box 1865, Harrisburg, PA 17105,
(717) 232-7000
suvcw.org
United States Civil War Center
Hill Memorial Library
Louisiana State University,
Baton Rouge, LA 70803, (225)
578-6544
www.cwc.lsu.edu
United Daughters of the
Confederacy
Memorial Building, 328 North Blvd., Richmond, VA 23220, (804) 355-1636
www.hqudc.org