Nancy Justus Morebeck has just written a new book, called Locating Union & Confederate Records—A Guide to the Most Commonly Used Civil War Records of the National Archives and Family History Library, Published by Heritage Quest. I had a chance to read this new one hundred and fifty-two-page book this week.

Morebeck’s book describes the record holdings available at the National Archives, many of which are also available via microfilm rentals at a local Family History Center near you. (You can find the location of your nearest center at: www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHC/frameset_fhc.asp.) The author also lists some other locations of records, including state archives. She describes the types of documents available and tells why they can be valuable to genealogists. She also tells how to order microfilms and photocopies of these documents.

The "Locating Union & Confederate Records" Table of Contents includes:

1. Enlistment Records – Regular Army, Union, and Confederate Volunteers
2. Union Draft Records
3. Confederate Draft Records
4. Union Compiled Military Service Records
5. Confederate Compiled Military Service Records
6. National Archives Reproduction Schedules
7. Officers of the Union and the Confederacy
8. Compiled records Showing Service of Military Units in Volunteer Union Organizations
9. Compiled records Showing Service of Military Units in Volunteer Confederate Organizations
10. Regimental Histories
11. Union Prisoners of War
12. Confederate Prisoners of War
13. Union Pension Records
14. Confederate Pension records
15. Confederate Amnesty Records
16. Soldiers’ Homes
17. Veteran Organizations
18. Union Deaths and Burials
19. Confederate Deaths and Burials
20. Finding Aids
1. The National Archives and Regional Branches
2. Libraries & Archives for Genealogical and Civil War Research
3. Federal Census of Union Veterans 1890
4. Federal Census of 1910
5. State Censuses Listing Civil War Information
6. Civil War Web Sites
21. Further Reading

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