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Andrew Crews

Subjects: Genealogy, Texana

How To Research

a Confederate Soldier
STEPS IN SEARCHING FOR A CONFEDERATE SOLDIER

1. As in any genealogical project, work from yourself backwards.
a. Search at home and talk to relatives for family information and oral histories.
b. Fill out “Ancestry Chart
a Union Soldier
Civil War Pensions

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Contemporary Newspapers

These newspapers are available on microfilm in the Texana/Genealogy department and give a variety of viewpoints on the Civil War.

Selected Research Collections

Card records of headstones provided for deceased Union Civil War veterans, ca 1879-ca. 1903
Case files of applications from former Confederates for presidential pardons
Civil War Unit Histories
Compiled service records of Confederate and Union soldiers ... from Texas
Descriptive recruitment lists of volunteers for the U. S. Colored troops of the State of Missouri
General orders and circulars of the Confederate War Department
Internal Revenue Assessment List, 1865-1866 (Tennessee and Texas)
Journals of the Congress of the Confederate States of America
Journals. Texas : Executive Department, Senate, House
Lost cause Press Microfiche on Slavery
Muster rolls and lists of Confederate troops paroled in North Carolina
Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations
Records relating to Confederate Naval and Marine personnel
Register of Confederate Soldiers, Sailors, and Citizens who died in Federal prisons and military hospitals in the North
Register of enlistments in the United States Army, 1798-1914
Roster of the [Texas] Confederate Home
San Antonio City Council Minutes
Schedules enumerating Union veterans and widows of Union veterans... 1890
Texas Confederate Pensions: Approved Applications

Periodicals

These titles are available in the Texana/Genealogy department.

Army, Navy Journal
Blue & Gray
Civil War Regiments
Confederate Veteran
Journal of Confederate History
Journal of Southern History
Military Collector and Historian
Military History of the (Southwest) West
Military Images
North & South
Ohio Civil War Genealogy Journal
Publications of the Southern Historical Association
Southern Bivouac

Welcome

With the beginning of the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War many books and online sources are being produced which are telling the story of the war from various points of view. Here we bring together a number of sources especially related to the Civil War in Texas.

San Antonio in the Civil War

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San Antonio Before the Civil War

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Books on Texas During the Civil War

Vaqueros in Blue & Gray by Jerry D. Thompson
Call Number: Texana 973.70896 Thompson
Planting the Union Flag in Texas by Stephen A. Dupree
Call Number: Texana 973.73092 Banks
Lone Star Blue & Gray
Call Number: Texana 973.7464 Lone
ISBN: 1625110251
Reluctant Rebels by Kenneth Noe
Call Number: Texana 973.713 Noe
Texas Civil War Artifacts by Richard M. Ahlstrom
Call Number: Texana 973.7464 Ahlstrom
The Fate of Texas: The Civil War and the Lone Star State
Call Number: Texana 973.7464 Lone