- The Years of Anguish: Fauquier County, Virginia, 1861-1865
- (Book - Amazon.com) : Collected and compiled for the Fauquier County Civil War Centennial Committee by Emily G. Ramey and John K Gott. This gathering of poignant memoirs includes: No Escape for Old John Brown, Diary of a Confederate Soldier, Helping Mosby’s Men, A Thundering Poor and Piney Place, A Most Bloody Battle, Our Enemies Triumph Over Us, The Battle of Rectortown, In a Yankee Prison, Fauquier Artillery and many others. The Rosters of the 11 companies from Fauquier Co., about 1100 men, are listed, including Mosby’s Rangers. (1965) reprint, 235 pp., illus., original fullname index.
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- Civil War Pensions Index
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(Database Online - Footnote) : This database contains index cards for pension applications of veterans who served in the U.S. Army between 1861 and 1917, including wars other than the Civil War. Records are sorted by units within regiments from each state in the Union. Find a soldier by searching on his name or browse by regiment. Learn about his term of service, and use the information to request his pension record. Unique to this series of records are death dates and locations for many of veterans who died after the war. Requires payment. -
- Confederate Cemeteries: Volume 2
- (Book - Amazon.com) :Volume 2, lists the names of over 10,500 Confederate soldiers that died during the Civil War. Some of the thirty-six cemeteries included in volume 2 include Blandford Cemetery at Petersburg, Stauton’s Thornrose Cemetery, Ashland’s Woodland Cemetery, the University of Virginia’s Soldier’s Cemetery, Woodbine Cemetery at Harrisonburg, Fredericksburg’s Confederate Cemetery, and the Old City Cemetery at Lynchburg. -
- Hispanic Confederates. Third Edition
- (Book - Genealogical.com) : After consulting a number of primary and secondary sources, including numerous rosters of Confederate soldiers, the author has compiled the only comprehensive roster of Hispanic Confederate soldiers in print. The number of soldiers listed here has grown to 6,175 men, a number nearly twice as large as identified in the first edition. -
- In Search of Confederate Ancestors : The Guide
- (Book - Amazon.com) : JH Segars provides "the" definitive guide for geneological research for Confederate ancestors. A concise instruction book for amateur historians researching not only specific Confederate ancestors but entire family lineages. -
- Southern Claims Commission
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(Database Online - Footnote) : In 1871, the US government established the Southern Claims Commission to address southerners' petitions for compensation of supplies, livestock, and other items taken by the Union troops during the Civil War. More than 20,000 claims were filed. These testimonial files include first-person accounts of how civilians survived the war, detailed circumstances regarding loss of property, and accounts of each family's history and loyalty to the Union cause. Requires payment. -
- Special Presidential Pardons for Confederate Soldiers
- (Book - Abebooks): Mountain Press, 1999 Perfect Bound. As New/No Jacket. 8 1/2 x 11. This 2 volume set with 517 pages and index details the Presidential Pardon applications. Following the war and the general amnesty there were fourteen exclusions for the soldiers. If one fell under one or more of these exclusions, there was no pardon and the individual had to apply for a special personal pardon from President Johnson. Over 15,000 men applied and this book is a compilation of the five documents from the House of Representatives giving their names, reason for exclusion and those Union citizens who vouched for them. About 30,000 names in the index. -
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