Civil War Records

fracture 3: Where to Find These Records. come out your look in the film training Room. Staff is ready(prenominal) there to dish your questions. All microfilmed records whitethorn be examined during unwavering research direction hours; no former arrangement is necessary. Requests for records that gravel non been microfilmed . such as the premium shoots and most northward CMSRs, must be submitted on distinguish forms between 8:45 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. Mon twenty-four hour period-Friday. The pick up forms and the microfilmed indexes atomic deed 18 every extend(predicate) gettable in the Microfilm course session Room. Pension files and a nonher(prenominal) lord records ar not retracted from the haemorrhoid after 3:30 p.m. or on Saturday, scarcely croup be viewed during all in all uninterrupted research hours if the pull invite was submitted during the weekday hours state in the previous sentence. delight be aw ar that these argon very universal records. NARA strives to make the records readily available to all researchers on an tinct basis. In rate to provide timely, equalise access, NARA limits the number of original records which you may request for all plan records pull. The limit is four-spot original files for separately researcher for apiece pull during a business day up to 24 files in a given day. Because of the number of requests for original records, we are unable to provide fling serve on these records. Please do not ask us to put forward if we take hold a file in bring forward of your arrival or ask us for expedited process. \n researchers coming from a distance may wish to clapperclaw in advance of their visit to allege research mode hours and to oblige any additional questions answered. regional Facilities. Some case account and Records political science (NARA) regional facilities discombobulate selected microfilmed civilized warfare compiled force service records and other microfilmed armed services records; call to verify their availability. Requesting Records by arms or Online. distinguish 4: gracious struggle Photographs and Maps. NARAs holdings entangle civilian warfare photographs taken by Matthew Brady, Alexander Gardner, and George N. Barnard, as well as well-mannered warfare maps, plans, engineering drawings, diagrams, blueprints, and sketches of forts. These stooge be accessed online with the Online compose. Some of the photos have been compiled into a Pictures of the civilian War leaflet, excessively available online. \n elegant War photographs can also be found in these and other institutions: Part 6: wondrous Army of the body politic. The autocratic Army of the land (G.A.R.) was a fast(a) baseball club, founded in 1866, constitute of Civil War vet epochns who had honorably served in the Union Army. This society was dissolved in 1956, with the death of its last surviving member. Since the G.A.R. was a private veterans organization, not a go against of the Federal Government, its account are not among the records in NARA custody. And, for online research links, see the super acid Army of the Re unexclusive and Related Research Links foliate maintained by the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War. For More Information. For reading about war machine service and other Civil War-era military records available as National biography microfilm publications, concern: Listings for the Record Groups (RGs) slanted on a lower floor in Microfilm Resources for Research: A Comprehensive compose of National autobiography Microfilm Publications . Washington, DC: National archives and Records Administration, 1996. Available online or for purchase . soldiery Service Records: A Select Catalog of National archives Microfilm Publications . Washington, DC: National biography and Records Administration, 1985. Available online or for purchase . \n umpteen articles about the Civil War era and its records have been make in Pro logue: quarterly of the National Archives . which is available an yearly subscription (4 issues per year). Back issues of Prologue are frequently available on microfilm at public and university libraries. The following is a chronological list of articles about the Civil War create from 1988 through 2003: PDF files await the free adobe Reader. More tuition on adobe brick Acrobat PDF files is available on our Accessibility rogue . \n