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Just got a message from ancestry.com that they are allowing free access to US Civil War records the week of April 07th to 14th. That includes the 1860 and 1870 Census.
I've been digging around the 1860 / 1870 ancestry.com census records for some time now. They've been very useful, but you always want to read the actual document itself if possible, rather than relying on what was picked up by the text reader.
After decades of genealogy, I thought perhaps the Civil War had passed our family by unfazed. But last night I found my 2ggf from Massachusetts served in the infantry and fought in North Carolina. Probably the only time in his life he ever left Mass!
And there is a pension application index with file number. Anyone know where the file can be found? I'll try ancestry, but thought the app itself might be with the Natl. Archives.
I'm going back to look some more tonight. Please let me know if you've found a CW era pension application and where you saw it.
After decades of genealogy, I thought perhaps the Civil War had passed our family by unfazed. But last night I found my 2ggf from Massachusetts served in the infantry and fought in North Carolina. Probably the only time in his life he ever left Mass!
And there is a pension application index with file number. Anyone know where the file can be found? I'll try ancestry, but thought the app itself might be with the Natl. Archives.
I'm going back to look some more tonight. Please let me know if you've found a CW era pension application and where you saw it.
Well, I already ordered and received pension applications for my Civil War ancestors (most of them) years ago. However, the Civil War Draft documents have finally conclusively proven to me that my Henry REED of Harrisville, NJ was born in Virginia I also found my great-great grandfather Jesse and his brothers on the Draft documents. Jesse came home alive, but injured. Brother John died at Battle of the Wilderness where he was shot through the lungs, and brother Edmund went MIA, also at Battle of the Wilderness, so far never found.
Yes, some battles were in swamps and deep woods. Guys were shot or drowned and never recovered. Difficult to think of how bad it must have been for many of them.
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