Records about Confederate soldiers are certainly less prevalent than those for their Union counterparts. But many more Confederate records exist than are widely known – and many of those records are online. In some cases where access to these records requires a subscription, they are available elsewhere for free. Here we offer a chart showing
The chart below compares the prices of the most popular record groups* with those of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). Not only are our prices much lower but delivery time is typically much shorter. Also note that if you request a pension file that is more than 100 pages long, NARA will deliver the first
Applies to: Revolutionary War War of 1812 Mexican War Early Indian Wars Starting in 1776, the Continental Congress offered tracts of land (or “bounty land“) to encourage and reward veterans of the Revolutionary War. The granted land was principally in military districts that are now in the State of Ohio and some western states and
The American Civil War was fought from 1861 to 1865 and the average soldier was 18-45 years old. So if you have a white, male ancestor who was born between roughly 1816 and 1847 and lived in the United States in the early 1860s, then he probably played some part in the Civil War.
While there are some wonderful free web sites (notably FamilySearch.org) from which you can access many online records, Ancestry.com and Fold3.com offer a wide variety of records that are not available anywhere else. In fact, if you go to the National Archives in Washington D.C. to access the original microfilms for those records, you’ll be directed to Ancestry.com and Fold3.com instead. In order to access most of the records at Ancestry.com or Fold3.com from your home computer or laptop, however, you’d need to pay a subscription fee. But there are many ways to access them for FREE.
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