MO-CW-L Archives

Archiver > MO-CW > 2004-09 > 1096493497


From:
Subject: Looking Up Your Missouri Civil War Ancestor
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 17:31:37 EDT


Descendants of Missouri Civil War veterans,
About the best all-around place to get information about MO Civil War
veterans who served on either side (or both) is the MO State Archives office
which you can find on the Internet under the MO Secretary of State's website. Ask
only about one veteran at a time, and I am told this service is free to
descendants. It takes about three months for the volunteers to look up and copy
your ancestor's military service record, assuming they can find it.
Also, you could find forms at your local library to consult National
Archives and Records Administration files in Washington, D. C. If the NARA finds
the record you request, they will send one page of the form back so you will
know how much their service will cost. There are choices you can make about
what kind of record you may want, but the library can explain that or the NARA
website can, too. NARA is not good for Confederate records and hardly has any of
the records for the tens of thousands of Missourians who served in the
northern Enrolled Missouri Militia, while the Missouri State Archives is better for
both of those.

This is a reply to the one who asked for help on this forum in the last
day or so that those still fighting the Civil War chose to ignore. Keep it up
and people interested in knowing more about their ancestors in that
fascinating war will drop off this site and not come back. Like Yogi Berra once said:
"They will stay away in droves."
Bruce Nichols

This thread: