United States Civil War,
1861 to 1865
Confederate Soldier Homes
Many Southern states maintained soldier homes for needy Confederate veterans. Records of these homes available at the Family History Library include:
Arkansas
- Pickett, Connie. Old Soldiers Home, Arkansas Confederate and Widows. St. Louis, Missouri: Ingmire Publications, 1985. (FHL book 976.7 M28i.) Arranged alphabetically by name of veteran or widow and includes the county and date.
Arkansas:
Arkansas Civil War Website: www.couchgenweb.com/civilwar
Allen, Desmond Walls. Index to Arkansas Confederate Soldiers. 3 vols. Conway, AR: Arkansas Research, 1990. (Gen. Ctr.)
___________. Index to Arkansas Confederate Pension Applications. Conway, AR: D. W. Allen, 1991. (Gen. Ctr. & TGS Lib.)
___________. Arkansas Union Soldiers Pension Application Index. Conway, AR: D. W. Allen, 1987. (Gen. Ctr.)
___________. Arkansas Damned Yankees: An Index to Union Soldiers in Arkansas Regiments. Conway, AR: D. W. Allen, 1987. (Gen. Ctr. & TGS Lib.)
Knight, Rena Marie. Additional Civil War Soldiers in Arkansas. 2 vols. Jacksonville, AR: RMK Publishing Company, 2004. (Gen. Ctr.)
McLane, Bobbie Jones. Arkansas 1911 Census of Confederate Veterans. 3 vols. Hot Springs National Park, AR: B. J. McLane & C. Glazner, 1977 ' 1981. (Gen. Ctr. & TGS Lib.)
____________. An Index to the Three Volumes, Arkansas 1911 Census of Confederate Veterans. Hot Springs, AR: Arkansas Ancestors, 1988. (Gen. Ctr. & TGS Lib.)
Pickett, Connie. Old Soldiers Home ' Arkansas Confederate Soldiers & Widows. St. Louis, MO: F. T. Ingmire, 1985. (ILL)
Confederate Prisoner of War Records
Below is a set of 429 volumes naming Confederate-held prisoners:
- Selected Records of the War Department Relating to Confederate Prisoners of War, 1861–1865. National Archives Microfilm Publication M598. Washington, DC: The National Archives, 1965–66, (FHL films 1303301–445.) Consists mainly of registers and lists of captured soldiers and civilians. The records may provide such information as names, rank, unit or residence, dates of capture, deaths, prisoners released, and so on.
Histories
Speer, Lonnie R., Portals to Hell: Military Prisons of the Civil War, (Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania: Stackpole Books, c1997), contains the history of Union and Confederate prisons. FHL book 973 M2spe. Other libraries.
Federal Censuses
- The Thirteenth Population Census of the United States, 1910. National Archives Microfilm Publication T624. (On 1,784 FHL films beginning with 1374014.) This census recorded whether an individual was a survivor of the Confederate Army (CA) or the Confederate Navy (CN). Some Southern states took special censuses of Confederate veterans. Those at the Family History Library include:
| Arkansas: Desha, Drew, and Faulkner Counties [NARA T624 roll 49] | FHL US/CAN Census Area 1374062 |
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