Medical Records - Include when and where a soldier was admitted to hospitals, specific injuries and illnesses, treatments and status upon discharge. Battles, skirmishes, marches, bivouacs and miscellaneous facts are described. Pension Records - A motherlode of information. Files often include documents from friends, neighbors, employers, family, officers, comrades and the pension soldiers themselves. Personal letters, affidavits and depositions illustrate the lives of soldiers and their families.
Some record sets are available for specific wars only.
Pension, military service, medical and regimental activities. Other genealogical records are available at the National Archives. Census records, immigration passenger lists, and special collections for Indian and African-Americans are also accessible. If interested in these types of records or if you have questions about military and genealogical research, send me a note. Will do what I can to help.