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Military and Veteran Records
The Georgia Archives has the most complete collection of military records for Georgia.
Among the many military and veteran records that may yield vital statistic information, are:
- Service records
- Pension records which may include, among other things, age, birth and death information, name of wife and marriage information, names and ages of children.
- Bounty land records which may include similar information as found in pension records.
- County veteran's grave registers may be available at the Clerk of Court.
Military records are available though the National Archives and Records. To obtain copies of these files, request a NATF Form 80 from the National Archives and return it with the requested information.
Records are also usually available though your local LDS Family History Center.
For prior records, index is Records for the Period Between the Revolution and the War of 1812.
Records are available though your local LDS Family History Center.
Actual pension records can be found at the State Archives.
Service records, again, are similar to those previously mentioned. The Service Record index is Records of Indian and Related Wars. There is both an index by name and state/territory.
Veteran's Benefits are called the Mexican War Series and cover the period of 1817-1898 but were not active until 1892. The index is Index to Indian War Pension Files, 1892-1926.
Records are available though the National Archives
Records are available though the National Archives and Records.
Click here for some transcribed military and pension records.
The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System is a computerized database containing very basic facts about servicemen who served on both sides during the Civil War. The initial focus of the CWSS is the Names Index Project, a project to enter names and other basic information from 5.4 million soldier records in the National Archives. The facts about the soldiers are being entered from records that are indexed to many millions of other documents about Union and Confederate Civil War soldiers maintained by the National Archives and Records Administration.
The Georgia Archives in Atlanta has compiled service and pension records for Confederate soldiers, musters and payrolls.
There is no master index to Civil War service records but there is a separate index by name for each state. Service Records for Union soldiers include all of the prior information along with these possible additions:
Draft records and Service Histories may also be available along with Burial Records and Headstone Applications. Headstone applications from 1879 to 1903 are arranged chronologically by State and County of burial.
Confederate Soldiers
Service records are available, although they may be as detailed. There are three indexes:
There is a consolidated index (alphabetical by Name) and an index by State.
Service Records for the Confederate soldiers are available though your local LDS Family History Center. Service Records for both Confederate and Union soldiers are available though the National Archives and Records.
Confederate Soldiers
Pension Records for Union soldiers are available though the National Archives and Records.
An excellent source of information is: Georgia Civil War Pension Records, there are limited counties represented; Newton County is not one of them at this time.
Union Soldiers
Pension Applications are the most widely available source of information. Two Indexes are available. An alphabetical Name index and an Organizational index.
American Civil War Page: with links to many detailed roster lists plus much more.
Records are available though your local LDS Family History Center.
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