The Florida State Archives houses various records created by the State Board of Pensions. Most important among these materials are the approved and denied pension applications, which are located in Series 587 . These files contain the applications made by Confederate veterans and their widows for Florida pensions. They often contain birth dates, marriage dates, military service information, and related correspondence. Veterans' files usually do not provide the date of the veteran's death, although widows' applications often do list the date of death of their spouse.
Various indexes are available that divide the pensions by veteran, widow, county, and military unit.
Pension records for ex-Confederates who lived in other southern states must be obtained through the archives of the state where the veteran resided. Union Pension records for Union soldiers are housed in the National Archives in Washington, D.C. and must be obtained through that source. In addition to the records described above, the Archives houses a variety of other government records relating to the Civil War. Volume one includes proclamations from the Civil War period. Includes election returns during the Civil War for civil offices.