A point of information ... If the soldier's WIDOW received a pension you can get a LOT more information (usually) by sending for the widow's pension records. I did this in 2004 ... for a cost of only $37 I received 40 or 50 pages of affidavits and letters back and forth. The widow's pension records INCLUDE the soldier's pension records. My gr-gr-grandfather's widow received $12 per month for all her efforts. (She was his second wife so not my gr-gr-grandmother, but that's more info. then you wanted to know.) -- Bob R. {bobr@foresight.net} -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Robyn Smith <msualumni33@verizon.net> > > The Union Pension Records Index and the Records themselves are stored at > the National Archives in Washington, DC. If you have an Ancestry.com > account they have the Pension Records Index and you can check for your > ancestor and then mail off to the Archives if you find someone for a > copy of the file. Or, as David mentioned, the Confederate Pensions are > at each States level, so the TSLA is where you can find out whether a > Confederate Soldier applied for a pension. > > Robyn > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TNHARDIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in > the subject and the body of the message