Civil War Pensions Index
Records: 2,987,384
Complete: 99%This publication contains index cards for pension applications of veterans who served in the U.S. Army between 1861 and 1900, including wars other than the Civil War. Records are sorted by units within regiments from each state in the Union. Find a soldier by searching on his name or browse by regiment. Learn about his term of service, and use the information to request his pension record. Unique to this series of records are death dates and locations for many of the veterans who died after the war.
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President James Garfield's Pension Index Card
Sample
Sample
Wyatt Earp's Older Brother in the Civil War Pension Index
Source Information
Fold3, Civil War Pensions Index ( : accessed January 28, 2023), database and images,
- Publication Title
- Civil War Pensions Index
- Total Records
- 2,987,384 Complete: 99%
- Content Source
The National Archives
- Publication Number
- T289
- Record Group
- 15
- Published on Fold3
- 23 Sep 2006
- Last Updated
- 17 Jun 2015
- Description
- NARA T289. Pension applications for service in the US Army between 1861 and 1900, grouped according to the units in which the veterans served.