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Kids in the Civil War | American Experience | Official Site - PBS

As many as 20% of Civil War soldiers were younger than 18. That was the minimum recruiting age for Union soldiers, but many people willingly overlooked the law.

Four Bodies Found in Colonial Williamsburg Belonged to ...

Last year, the skeletal remains of four Civil War soldiers were unearthed in Virginia's Colonial Williamsburg. Archaeologists said they ...

Remains of Civil War veterans are laid to rest - KSBW

Remains of nearly 30 Civil War veterans found in a funeral home's storage are laid to rest ... soldiers — but nothing linking them to the Civil ...

Fighting for Freedom, Black Union Soldiers of the Civil War

The earliest major offenses in which black troops participated were in Louisiana, at Port Hudson and Milliken's Bend, in May and June of 1863.

War Service Records and Searches | New York State Archives

Information about Military Records. Detailed descriptions of record series containing war service data can be found using the State Archives Finding Aid Search.

Military Records Research | TSLAC

Military Records Research · You may search for individuals and military units who fought in the Texas Revolution by using the online index to ...

How Men Thought, Fought, and Survived in Civil War Armies

Digging deeply into his soldiers' writing, Carmichael resists the idea that there was "a common soldier" but looks into their own words to find common threads ...

Deserters in the Civil War - Teachinghistory.org

Estimates for Confederate armies range even higher—perhaps as many as one soldier in three deserted during the course of the war. The Army of Northern Virginia ...

Tomb of the Unknown Soldier - Arlington National Cemetery

At Arlington National Cemetery, there are individual Civil War unknown burials as well as the remains of 2,111 Union and Confederate soldiers buried beneath the ...

Remains of Civil War veterans are laid to rest - KCRA

Remains of nearly 30 Civil War veterans found in a funeral home's storage are laid to rest ... soldiers — but nothing linking them to the Civil ...

Missouri State Archives - Civil War in Missouri

... soldiers. Elements of the following manuscript collections are included ... Belcher Civil War Collection (link to finding aid). MS515 Frank Wallemann ...

Tennessee Civil War Veterans' Questionnaires

The effort to record Civil War veterans' experiences, during the conflict and before and after it, started in 1914. Dr. Gus Dyer, Tennessee State Archivist, ...

Compiled Military Service Records of the Civil War - Fold3 HQ

The Compiled Military Service Records (CMSRs) are one of the best places to look for information on the military careers of your Civil War ...

Military Service Records and Unit Histories: A Guide to Locating ...

Dornbusch, C. E. Military Bibliography of the Civil War. New York ... World War II Order of Battle, U.S. Army (Ground Force Units).

Union Army Data Set | NBER

... Army sample is a longitudinal, life-cycle sample of Civil War veterans. The sample is comprised of nearly 40,000 northern, white soldiers serving in 331 ...

Remains of Civil War veterans are laid to rest - WXII 12

Remains of nearly 30 Civil War veterans found in a funeral home's storage are laid to rest ... soldiers — but nothing linking them to the Civil ...

Resources - Civil War Photo Sleuth

Not on Civil War Photo Sleuth? Sign up to add photos, edit tags, search for similar-looking photos, identify soldiers and check what other users are doing. Sign ...

Remains of Nearly 30 Civil War Veterans Found in a Funeral ...

PAWTUCKET, R.I. -- For several decades, the cremated remains of more than two dozen American Civil War veterans languished in storage ...

Family Life during the Civil War - Encyclopedia Virginia

As one Virginia soldier put it, his duty in the war encompassed “the defense ... Still others found their marital relationships altered by the war itself.