You may have wondered why you haven’t heard nearly as much from me as normal during the last month. It’s because Dollarhide, Patty and I set 
ourselves on a project that wiped out all our time. We decided that we would finish Dollarhide’s latest effort and get it out for the upcoming SCGS Jamboree. Well – we did it. The book is at the printer and will be delivered to us on Friday. We’re running a special pre-publication price on the book through noon on Monday, June 22 – when we will ship the volume.
This volume is at the printer and will ship starting on June 22, 2009. Orders placed prior to that date will be shipping that day.
Most genealogical records during the decade of the Civil War are related to the soldiers and regiments of the Union and Confederate military. However, there are numerous records relating to the entire population as well. This new volume by William Dollarhide identifies the places to look and documents to be found for ancestors during the decade, 1861-1869, as well as post-war veterans. The book is laid out first by nation-wide name lists and then by state listings in alphabetical order.
The following broad categories, as well as others, are identified within this book:
National Resources:
- Civil War Soldiers & Sailors System
- The American Civil War Research Database
- Official Records of the War of the Rebellion
- General and Organizational Indexes to Pension Files, 1861-1934
- 1883 List of U.S. Pensioners on the Roll
- 1890 Federal Census of Union Veterans
- Roll of Honor & Veteran Burials
- 1865-1867 Confederate Amnesty Papers
- Consolidated Lists of Confederate Soldiers & United Confederate Veterans Association
- Index to Compiled Service Records
Statewide Resources:
- Compiled Service Records (by state)
- Index to Compiled Service Records (by state)
- 1861-1869 State Censuses
- 1861-1869 Statewide Name Lists
- 1862-1869 Internal Revenue Assessment Lists
- Statewide Militia Lists
- Confederate Pension Applications
- Pensioner Name Lists and censuses of Confederate Veterans
- Indexes to Statewide Records
- Lists of Veteran Burials; State Adjutant General Reports & state-sponsored histories
The Best Civil War Resource Centers for Local & County Research
- Online Resources
- Libraries & Archives
Genealogical Resources of the Civil War Era – Online and Published Military or Civilian Name Lists, 1861-1869 & Post-Civil War Veteran Lists; by William Dollarhide; 2009; Soft Cover, Perfect Bound; 8.5×11; 203 pp; Item # FR0113
There is another little known resource in New York State. The annual “Proceedings of the Board of Supervisors” books for each county usually contained reports from people who were in charge of burying soldiers and their widows, and supplying headstones. One can often find the name of the soldier or his widow; his or her date and place of death; his rank and the unit in which he served; ethnicity, specifically a reference to being colored or having served with a colored troop; place of burial; clues to religious affiliation such as those buried in Catholic cemeteries; and the cost of the gravestone. Some of these soldiers were listed in different years; once when they died and were buried, and perhaps a year or more later when a gravestone was purchased and erected. These books are generally not indexed, necessitating a page by page search for each commissioner’s report, and they are hard to come by as they were printed in limited quantities that were distributed to each town and various politicians. Those volumes published in the late 1800s and into the early 1900s tend to contain more information, although it was apparently left up to each commissioner to determine what details to include in his report.