The Civil War
1861-1865
TN, GA and NC all seceded from the Union and were part of the Confederacy. However, Union troups were raised in East Tennessee. North Georgia had many Union sympathizers at the beginning of the war. So, it's not surprising to find our Tri-State area's men enlisting into the Union forces in TN.
Enlisting was most often into companies that had
other members of their families. Therefore, not all men living in one
county enlisted into a regiment raised in their home county. It
might be into a neighboring county company or one even across state lines.
Civil War
Battles by State - from
National Park Service
Chronology of the American Civil War -
timeline of events
The American
Civil War Home Page -
boo-coo's of links about The Civil War
The Civil War Homepage -
another site full of Civil War links
Maps of the Civil War - from
ehistory.com
Rare Maps of the Civil War -
Univ of GA - Hargett Library
Selected
Civil War Photos - Library of
Congress
The Civil War Album -
a collection of over
5100 modern photos and
panoramas of Civil War sites.
Access to Military Records at NARA -
The National Archives and Records
Administration (NARA) is the official repository for records of military
personnel who have been discharged from the U.S. Air Force, Army, Marine
Corps, Navy and Coast Guard
The
Fight for Equal Rights: Black Soldiers in the Civil War
- @ NARA
The Southern Home
Front 1861-1865
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"Documenting the American
South" Project at
UNC at Chapel Hill
Chart of Civil War Rosters at TSLA - includes other states not just TN
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Chart showing Units
who were raised in SMARC's area of North GA, including rosters and
unit histories
- prepared by SMARC.
The Civil War in GA - @Univ of GA The Atlanta Campaign - a virtual tour The Civil War Trail in GA - The Heartland of the Confederacy Trail features 44+ sites in northeast Georgia that focus on the lives of the period. House museums, other tourist-friendly sites. Includes interactive tours of historic sites in GA. News Accounts of GA Conf. Dead 5/22/1866 - by Cathy Carter Confederate Cemeteries in GA - list of 299 cemeteries with links to surveys Rabun GA: Widows of Deceased Soldiers Roll 1861-1865 by Dawn Watson
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A Guide to Military Organi-zations and Installations - NC 1861-1865 North Carolina Civil War Prints and Photographs - A collection of NC Civil War prints & photo-graphs located in the NC Collection, Univ, of NC Library at Chapel Hill. The Thomas Legion of NC - CSA - brief history [Note: This legion raised men in TN as well as NC; and it had both Cherokee and white companies] caution: many popups History of The Thomas Legion of NC - CSA - by Ken Martin
The Thomas
Legion of NC - history, company rosters, etc. The Thomas Legion of NC - 69th VIR CSA - by W.W. Stringfield in 1901 Record of Events of the Thomas Legion, the 69th VIR of NC CSA - gives detailed info about Walker's Batt. Companies and more... The Thomas Legion & the Battle of Waynesville - by Jim Howell North Carolina Colored Troops Project U. S. Navy (African Americans) from NC
The
Forgotten Sons: North Carolinians in the Union Army -
by Glenda
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Civil War Battles fought in TN. Contains links to other sites with information TN Civil War Cemeteries On-line - @ TNGenWeb.org Newspaper Abstracts about the Bushwackers in TN - by Sandra Ratledges TN Guerillas and Bushwackers - by unknown - no copyright info shown TN Civil War Railroads - author unknown - no copyright info shown TN Civil War Veteran Obituaries - at TnGenWeb |
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Searchable On-line Databases:
The Civil War Soldiers &
Sailors System
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GA Blacks in
Union Navy - by Dorothy
Elwood GA Master Soldier Index - @ GAGenWeb Archives - alphbetical showing which GA unit a soldier served; but no other info |
NC
Confederate Troops
Index of Soliders from Jackson Co. NC Index of Soliders from Macon Co. NC 39th Regiment - CSA - had men from Cherokee, Buncombe, Macon & Clay Cos.
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TN Confederate - Compiled Service Records Index - at TnGenWeb TN Union Soliders - Compiled Service Records Index - at TnGenWeb TN Units Criss-Cross - search by county to see which units were raised that in county. Tennessee Civil War Regimental Histories In 1886, John Berrien Lindsley, M. D., D. D., published The Military Annals of Tennessee - Confederate. For each Tennessee Confederate Military Unit, Lindsley published a list of veterans killed during the war. This Partial database contains an alphabetical listing of the soldiers listed in his book. TN Virtual Military Cemetery - database of all Civil War Veterans buried in TN and all TN soldiers buries in other states. A list of names of Tennessee Civil War Veterans who were at Appomattox on the day that General Robert E. Lee surrendered. This information was extracted from The Appomattox Roster by R. A. Brock originally published in 1887. In 1866, the USA government requested from each state a list of veterans who served in the Union Army from that state. This database contains a transcription of that book. TN Confederate Physicians - database at TSLA
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Resources Available for Purchase On-line:
History Undercover - Sex in the Civil War
Free Publications from National Park Service, Heritage Preservation Services
The American Civil War Research Database
All That Makes a Man: Love and Ambition in the Civil War South
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Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia CD-Rom by Lillian Henderson Names, ranks, dates, and status of the Confederate soldiers of Georgia, organized by regiments. Cd-Rom, fully searchable, Copy/Print.
The Civil War in Georgia The Battle of Resaca: Atlanta Campaign, 1864 (Civil War Georgia) - by Philip L. Secrist
Civil War Sites in Georgia
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The Andersonville Prison Civil War Crimes Trial: A Headline Court Cases - by Susan Banfield Joe Brown's Army: The Georgia State Line, 1862-1865 - by William Harris Bragg Joe Brown's Pets: The Georgia Militia, 1862-1865 - by William R. Scaife
Cradled in Glory, Georgia Military Institute, 1851-1865 Georgia Civil War Historical Markers - by Kenneth W. Boyd US Colored Troops: Contri-butions by United States Colored Troops (USCT) of Chattqanooga & North GA During the American Civil War, Reconstruction and Formation of Chattanooga - by E. Raymond Evans
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The Heart of Confederate Appalachia: Western NC in the Civil War
- by John C. Inscoe The Civil War in the Carolinas - by Dan L. Morrill
The Civil War in North Carolina Bushwhackers (Civil War in NC) - by William R. Trotter Storm in the Mountains: Thomas' Confederate Legion of Cherokee Indians and Mountaineers - by Vernon H. Crow Touring the Carolinas' Civil War Sites - by Clint Johnson North Carolina as a Civil War Battleground, 1861-1865 - by John Gilchrist Barrett State Troops and Volunteers: A Photographics Records of NC's Civil War Soldiers - by Greg Mast
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The following 2 books are a must for researching TN Civil War participants: Tennesseans in the Civil War: A Military History of Confederate and Union Units With Available Rosters of Personnel - by TN Historical Commission [ISBN 0-87402-018-2] Tennesseans in the Civil War: A Military History of Confederate and Union Units With Available Rosters of Personnel - by TN Historical Commission Commission [ISBN 0874020182] The Military Annals of TN: Confederate - by John B. Lindsley
War at Every Door: Partisan Politics and Guerrilla Violence in East
Tennessee, 1860-1869 All Right Let Them Come: The Civil War Diary of an East TN Confederate (Voices of the Civil War) - by John Guilford Earnest Myra Inman: A Diary of the Civil War in East TN - - by Myra Inman Divided Loyalties: Fort Sanders and the Civil War in East TN - by Digby Gordon Seymour East Tennessee and the Civil War - by Oliver P. Temple Carter's Raid: An Episode of the Civil War in East TN - by William Garrett Piston Sherman's March to the Sea: Hood's Tennessee Campaign & the Carolina Campaigns of 1865 - by Jacob D. Cox
Mountain Rebels: East TN Confederates and the Civil War, 1860-1870 TN Civil War Veteran Question-naires: Contains Confederates G-K - by John Trotwood Moore TN Civil War Veteran Question-naires: Contains Confederates L-Q - by John Trotwood Moore TN Civil War Veteran Question-naires: Contains Confederates R-Z - by John Trotwood Moore
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Resources Available for Purchase Off-Line:
Civil
War Veteran Service Records from NARA must be ordered from Publications from US Army Center for Military History
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These Men Wore Grey
- a book series by Karen Thompson Ledford covering NE Georgia
counties, each county has it's own volume which is a collection of
genealogical military and interment records of Confederate soldiers.
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Confederate History of Polk County by A. J. Williams |
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Off-line Resources: Visit our Library and Archives section to search on-line catalogs of holdings. |
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List of
Microfilmed Confederate Records at GA State Archives Civil War Resources - GA State Archives Robert S. Davis, Jr., Forgotten Union Guerrillas of the North Georgia Mountains, A North Georgia Journal of History, Woodstock, GA: Legacy Communications, 1989. |
Civil War Dead from Buncombe
Co. - by Eric Emory NC Civil War Roster Books Series - from NC Historical Commission |
How to order by mail TN military services records from TSLA
Tennesseans in the
Civil War, in Two Parts Civil War Centennial Commission, 1964
Now in reprint by University of Tennessee, 1989 |
Cold
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"C.A.T." Tindell, Blue Ridge, GA