From: joe <joe@genesearch.com> To: TheShipsList-L@rootsweb.com Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 23:04:56 -0700 Subject: [TSL] Re: Civil War pension records Cyndi Howells (of Cyndi's List) has a great article about obtaining Union Civil War Pension records here... http://www.oz.net/~cyndihow/pensions.htm You can find some links to online indexes for Confederate Civil War Pension records here... Online Military Indexes & Databases http://home.att.net/~wee-monster/military.html Note that the National Archives only has Union Pension records. The Confederate records are generally kept at each state's archives or a similar repository. Good luck with your searches. Regards, Joe enalibof@netscape.net wrote: >The adage that you can find the answer to county of Ireland in the American >records applies here. If he did indeed serve in the Civil War, go to the >National Park Service website Civil War Soldiers and Sailors. You will get >his company and regiment so that you can order his pension >application which has >his birthplace. >Good luck, >Ellen > >"He may have served in the 19th lt. artillery battery Indiana in Civil War. " ______________________________