Civil War

Kentucky Civil War Pensions

Pension Records  (All hosted at USGenWeb Pension Archives unless otherwise noted) Pension Applications Bath County Stephen M. Warner Bell County Samuel Johnson Breckinridge County Aaron C. Schacklett Casey County Larkin Leathers Miles Anderson Crittenden County Robert H. Ledbetter Daviess County Bannister Wall Dickens Estill County Elihu Puckett Grayson County William Asbury Edwards Greenup County Jarvis Jackson Hart County John Flanigan Andrew Polston James Polston Jackson County Daniel G. Bowles Jefferson County Joseph Russell Felix Whortenberry Johnson County Osborne Menifee County Rufus H. Hale Metcalfe County Thomas Bastin III William M. Bastin Nicollet County Nelson Goldsmith Owsley County Willis Sandlin Pike … Read more

Civil War Pensions By State

This collection references specific pension records freely available through different project websites online. The pension law governing claims based on death or disability from military service was passed on 14 July 1862. Later pension laws were based on length of service and disability not necessarily incurred in the service. Beginning in 1892 women who were employed as nurses by the government were also eligible for pensions.

Indiana Civil War Pensions

Indiana Pension Records Boone County Houk, William , Application Abstract Clark County Anderson, James Brady, Levi , Widow’s Application & Misc. Elkhart County McFarren, James, Widow’s Application Grant County Boyer, Amandus , Invalid Application Abstract Delaney, John , Invalid Application & Abstracts Hancock County Manning,  Joel , Invalid Application & Misc. Howard County Atkisson, James W. , Invalid Application & Misc. Brass, Alexander , Invalid Application & Questionnaire Crousore, Andrew R. , Mother’s Application & Abstracts Jessup, Thomas J. , Misc. Papers & Csr Shaw,  James C. , Invalid, Widow’s Applications & Misc. Snow, John M. , Widow’s Application Johnson County Settles, Isaac , Invalid Application Lawrence County Evans, Elijah , Information & Death … Read more

Georgia Civil War Pensions

All pages listed, hosted at USGenWeb Archives Project Georgia Babb, Tillman L. Invalid Application Babb, William A. Widow’s Application & Misc. Badger, George M. Widow’s Application Extracts Ballard, James Pope , Daughters’ Application Extracts Boyd, W. L. E. , Widow’s Application Boyd, William , Invalid Application Brewer, John Wesley , Invalid, Widow’s Applications & Misc Bridges, Wiley Jones , Father’s Application & Misc Bryan, W. A. , Invalid Questionnaire & Misc Caldwell, P. Ct. , Widow’s Questionnaire & Misc. Chambers, William , Invalid Questionnaire, Csr Extracts & Misc. Coulter, R. M. V. , Invalid, Widow’s Questionnaire & Misc. Forshee, Noah … Read more

Florida Civil War Pensions

Florida Florida Confederate Pension Application Files Index Alachua County Baker County Bay County Bradford County Brevard County Broward County Calhoun Charlotte Citrus Clay Columbia Dade DeSoto Dixie Duval Escambia Flagler Franklin Gadsden Gilchrist Glades Gulf Hamilton Hardee Hendry Hernando Highlands Hillsborough Holmes Indian River Jackson Jefferson Lafayette Lake Lee Leon Levy Liberty Madison Manatee Marion Martin Monroe Nassau Okaloosa Okeechobee Orange Osceola Palm Beach Polk Putnam St. Johns St. Lucie Sarasota Seminole Sumter Suwannee Taylor Union Volusia Wakulla Walton Washington Civil War Pension Applications Following hosted at Florida Civil War Pension Project Surname A Surname Ba-Bel  Surname Bem-Bo  Surname Br-Bro … Read more

Arkansas Civil War Pensions

Arkansas (following hosted at USGenWeb Archives Pension Project Civil War ) Widow’s Application Abstract Johnson County Alverson, Joseph Pike County Townsend, William S. Invalid Widow’s Applications & Misc. Scott County Bates, Martin Stephen Cates, William F. Davis, William T. Lynch, John B. McClain, George W. McKay, Andrew C. Miner, Maston Speights, William Levi Williams, Elias Invalid Widow’s Application Abstracts Saline County Hicks, Thomas Jefferson P. Scott County Hooper, Ambrose Humes Journey, Elijah F. Widow’s Application Bradley County Castleberry, Jesse Columbia County Foster, Jackson Scott County Johnston, Whitmill M. McClain, John W. Stinson, James A. Wiley, Thomas Jefferson Invalid Application & … Read more

Alabama Civil War Pension Records

Alabama Civil War Pension Records Description Barbour County Civil War Pensions, hosted at ALGenWeb Archives Project Application for the Relief of Confederate Soldier T. G. Loftin Application for Widow’s Pension Mrs. Emma Ellen [Fountain] Stephens Reclassification of Widow’s Pension Mrs. Emma Ellen [Fountain’ Stephens Application for the Relief of Confederate Soldier, J. W. Stephens Application for Widow’s Pension Susan A. Fountain Stephens Prisoner of War Records, Samuel E. Stephens Bibb County Civil War Pensions, hosted at Bibb County Alabama GenWeb Pritchett, William N. Quinn, J. V. Butler County Civil War Pensions, hosted at ALGenWeb Archives Project Harris, Polly, widow of … Read more

Alabama Civil War Miscellaneous Records

Autauga County Autauga County Civil War Monument, hosted at flickr Alabama Civil War Message Board, hosted at History Sites Bibb County Bibb County Soldiers, hosted at Bibb County Alabama GenWeb Avery, Henry W. Bailey, B.T. Belcher, William Henry Brown, Daniel J. Brown, Elijah Canterbury Men Colbert, Thomas W. Deason, John C. Elam, Hiram Elam, John M. Fitts, Oliver Hobson Men Kyzer, Levi D. Kyzer, Paul H. Marlow, Richard Merchant, Daniel Z. Miller, Joshua E. Muckleroy, William Scoggins, Henry C. Shropshire, Robert A. Smith, Andrew J. Smith, Charles Smith, Isaac Splawn, James M. (1) Splawn, James M. (2) Stewart, A.J. Wallace, … Read more

Alabama Civil War Enlistment Records

Alabama Civil War Enlistment Records Description Barbour County Civil War Enlistments, hosted at ALGenWeb Archives Project Caples, Thomas Calvin 1862, Crenshaw County McLeod, Hugh 1862, Pike County McLeod, Neil 1862, Pike County Pugh, Jesse Y 1862, Pike County Pugh, Nathan David, Pike County Pugh, Wade Hezekiah 1862, Pike County Butler County Civil War Enlistments, hosted at ALGenWeb Archives Project Wingard, William Asbury 1862, Pike County Wingard, Zachariah Zach 1863, Pike County Coffee County Civil War Enlistment, Draft Registrants, hosted at ALGenWeb Archives Project Maddox, Matthew M Sr Enlistment 1864 CW Florida Draft Registrants from Coffee Co 1917-1918 A-G CW Florida … Read more

Alabama Civil War Census Records, Confederate

Blount County Enumeration of Confederate Soldiers Residing in Alabama, 1907 1862 Blount County Confederate Census (hosted at Robin Sterling’s Blount County, Alabama Research)Surnames A-B Surnames C – D Surnames E – F Surnames G – H Surnames I – L Surnames M – N Surnames O – R Surnames S – U Surnames V – Z Clarke County 1907 Census of Confederate Soldiers (hosted at Tracking Your Roots) Coffee County1907 Living Confederate Soldiers (hosted at Coffee County ALGenWeb) Census Of Confederate Soldiers,1907 (hosted at Tracking Your Roots) Covington County 1907 Confederate Veterans’ Census (hosted at Tracking Your Roots) Dale County … Read more

Civil War Microfilm at the National Archives

Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations Raised Directly by the Confederate Government. (M258. 123 rolls. 16mm. DP.) This microfilm publication reproduces the compiled service records of Confederate soldiers who served in military organizations raised directly or otherwise formed by the Confederate government and therefore not identified with any one state. Two or three of these organizations seem to have been originally considered units of the Confederate Regular Army. Several others were raised among residents of Indian Territory; one was made up of foreigners recruited among Union prisoners of war. Preceding the jacket-envelopes for the individual soldiers … Read more

General Index of Pension Files, 1861-1934

The National Archives have microfilm publication of a general index to pension files. The pension applications to which this index applies relate chiefly to Army, Navy, and Marine Corps service performed between 1861 and 1916. Most of the records relate to Civil War service; some relate to earlier service by Civil War veterans; others relate to service in the Spanish-American War, the Philippine Insurrection, the Boxer Rebellion, and the Regular Establishment. There are no Federal pension records for service in Confederate forces. Each card in the general index gives a veteran’s name, rank, unit, and term of service; names of … Read more

Biography of Robert S. Montgomery

For a period of over 35 years the subject of this sketch was one of the leading farmers of Rock Island county. His farm was one of the largest and best under the highest state of cultivation, while the improvements upon it were among the finest and latest in design. Not only was the owner a leader in agricultural, but he was likewise foremost among his fellow men, in church, in politics and in society. His sons and daughters, following the example he set for them, grew into useful men and women and went out to fill responsible positions in … Read more

Biography of John H. Thornton

Mr. John H. Thornton, veteran of the Civil War and for many years employed in the Government service at Rock Island Arsenal, was born in Ireland June 24, 1847, and died at his home in Moline July 9, 1903. He was the son of Patrick and Mary Thornton and came to America with his parents while an infant, aged nine months. The mother died in Rochester, New York, after which the father removed to Philadelphia, from which city, at the age of sixteen, young Thornton enlisted, July 26, 1862, in Company Fifty-three, Twenty-Ninth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, Third Infrntry. His Company … Read more

Biography of Josiah G. Heck

The subject of this sketch, Josiah G. Heck, of Moline, was born in Harrison County, Ohio, May 8, 1840, the son of John and Sarah (Wilde) Heck, and has been a resident of Rock Island County the past sixty-four years. The Heck family is an old one; Phillip Heck, grandfather of Josiah Heck, belonging to a family that was early established in the United States. John Heck, father of Josiah Heck, was born September 10, 1786, in Pennsylvania. In 1833 he emigrated to Harrison County, Ohio, staying eleven years there. There he married Miss Sarah Wilde, and a few years … Read more

Biography of Charles F. Hemenway

A prominent and active figure in the business life of Moline, Illinois, has been, and still is, Mr. Charles F. Hemenway, the well known dealer in real estate and loans. Mr. Hemenway was born November 1, 1846, at Grand de Tour, Illinois. His father’s name was Luke E. Hemenway (to whom a special article is devoted in this book), who married Jane E. Marsh, at Grand de Tour, June 23, 1842. The Hemenways are direct descendants of Ralph Hemenway and Elizabeth Hewes, who were married at Roxbury, Massachusetts, July 5, 1634. Their grandson, Daniel Hemenway, was a delegate to the … Read more

Biography of Major Charles W. Hawes

Major Charles W. Hawes is probably the oldest male “native” of Rock Island, Illinois, born within the Village of Stephenson, now embraced in the city limits of Rock Island, prior to 1842. His father was David Hawes, a native of Belchertown, Massachusetts, and his mother was Julia M. Babcock, a native of   Ware, Massachusetts, both of Revolutionary stock. (See biography David Hawes) Major Hawes’s father arrived in Rock Island from Massachusetts via St. Louis and the Mississippi River in October, 1835, where Mrs. Hawes joined him later, and Major Hawes was born March 7, 1841. He had the advantage of … Read more

Biography of James M. Beardsley

The above named widely known soldier-citizen is a brother to Colonel Ezra, and Lieutenant Elisha I. Beardsley, the latter of whom was killed in action, December 29, 1862, at Chickasaw Bayou, during the assault under General Sherman. Mr. Beardsley, who is also a cousin of the late Major James M. Beardsley, and descended from a family who settled in America along with the Puritans in 1628, and whose relatives served in the Army and Navy in various capacities for nearly three centuries, was born near Aledo, Mercer County, Illinois, June 23, 1843. When he was still in his swaddling raiment, … Read more

Biography of Hon. William Payne

Farmers who have been elected to positions of trust and honor are not by any means few in America, but it is the exception that the tiller of the soil continues to be such long after he has won success in any sphere outside his regular calling. The allurements of city life in the great majority of cases quickly overcome the inborn love of nature unadorned and the farmer is known by another name. Honorable William Payne has been one of the few. After terms of service in county offices and through twelve years in which he held membership in … Read more