Fold3 is available at Library of Virginia and many public libraries. Colored Troops, Union troops recruited in West Virginia and the southern states, and select Union troops in northern and western states. Includes Compiled Military Service Records for all Confederate and select Union troops, including the U.S. This record contains basic information about the soldier’s military career, which may include age, physical description, date and place of enlistment when a soldier was present or absent date of discharge or death wounds and hospitalizations and dates of capture and release as a prisoner of war.ĬMSRs rarely mention the battles in which soldiers fought, and do not mention their families except in cases when relatives collected back pay or personal effects of a deceased soldier. Each soldier has one CMSR for each regiment in which they served. These abstracts, now in the National Archives and known as Compiled Military Service Records (CMSR), are the main source of information on individual soldiers.ĬMSRs are arranged by regiment or other unit. USS Monitor was an ironclad warship built for the Union Navy during the American Civil War and completed in early 1862, the first such ship commissioned by the Navy. Records pertaining to service in Virginia’s Confederate and Union army units were later abstracted by the United States War Department.

At the end of the Civil War, Union forces confiscated most of the surviving Confederate War Department records.

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