The “Better Soldiers and Sailors” web site was created by and is supported by Gopher Records, LLC.  The data sources are as follows:

Soldiers

• • “Soldiers and Sailors Database“, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.

Sailors

• • “Soldiers and Sailors Database“, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.

Prisoners

• • “Soldiers and Sailors Database“, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.

Burials

• • “National Gravesite Locator Database“, U. S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
  • Arlington National Cemetery Database, Office of Army Cemeteries, Department of the U.S. Army, Washington, D.C.
  • Ferguson, Christopher L., “Southerners at Rest: Confederate Dead at Hollywood Cemetery” (Winchester, VA: Angle Valley Press, 2008).
  • Hughes, Mark, “Confederate Cemeteries” (Westminster, MD: Heritage Books, 2006), Vols. 1 and 2.
  • Maczuga, Steve, “Database of the Interred at the Soldiers’ National Cemetery,” Penn State University, unpublished.

Courts Martial

• • Finding Aid, “Federal Courts-Martial,” Research Room, “National Archives and Records Administration”, Washington D.C. (unpublished).
  • Bunch, Jack A., “Roster of the Courts-Martial in the Confederate States Armies” (Shippensburg, PA: White Mane Books, 2001).

Regimental Histories

• • Dyer, Frederick H., “Compendium of the War of the Rebellion” (Des Moines, IA: Dyer Publishing Co., 1908).
  • Crute, Joseph H., Jr., “Units of the Confederate States Army” (Midlothian, VA: Derwent Books, 1987), 2nd Edition.

Ships

• • “Official records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion“, Series II, Vol. 1, p274-323. (Harrisburg, PA, National Historical Society, c1987).
  • Wikipedia, “List of Ships of the Confederate States Navy“