Online Resources

Guides to Missouri Genealogical & Historical Research

Books on Civil War Soldiers

General Topics

Annual Report of the Adjutant General of Missouri for the Year Ending December 31, 1865. Emory Foster, publisher, 1866. 781 pages.

Branded as Rebels: A List of Bushwackers, Guerrillas, Partisan Rangers, Confederates and Southern Sympathizers From Missouri During the War Years. Joanne Chiles Eakin and Donald R. Hale. 1993, 520 pages.

Confederate Organizations: Officers and Posts: 1861-1865 Missouri Units. Ozarks Genealogical Society, Inc. 1988, 107 pages.

The Missouri State Guards: A Roster. Leslie Anders. The Western Central Missouri Genealogical Society, 1989, 139 pages.

Missourians and the Civil War: 125th Anniversary of the Battle of Glasgow . Carolyn M. Bartels. 1989. 25 pages.

Missouri Amnesty. Carolyn M. Bartels. National Archives Microfilm Publications, 1996. 353 pages.

The Roster of Confederate Soldiers, 1861-1865. Wilmington, N. C.: Broadfoot Publishing Company, c1995.

Official Army Register of the Volunteer Force of the United States Army, 1861-1865. [OFFICERS ONLY] 8 volumes. Volume 7 pertains to Missouri.

Deaths and Imprisonments

Missouri Prisoners of War: From Gratiot Street Prison, St. Louis, Mo Alton Prison--Including Citizens, Confederates, Bushwackers and Guerrillas. Joanne Chiles Eakin. 1995. 100 pages.

Civil War Military Prisoners Sent to Missouri State Penitentiary. Joanne Chiles Eakin. 1995. 40 pages.

Union Burials: Missouri Units. Edward Parkers. Columbia: State Historical Society of Missouri, 1999. 169 pages. (originally published as 3 volumes in 1988-1989 under the titles Missouri Union Burials: Mission Units and Selected Union Burials: Missouri Units ).

Missouri Confederates Surrender; Shreveport and New Orleans, 1865 . Carolyn Bartels. 1991. 50 pages.

Death Records from Missouri Newspapers: The Civil War Years, January 1861-December 1865. Lois Stanley, George F. Wilson, and Maryhelen Wilson. 1985. 193 pages.

State-Wide Missouri Obituary Index 1851-1882 . Woodruff, Audrey L. Infotech Publications, 1992. 130 pages.

Confederate Roll of Honor: Missouri . Leslie Anders. West Central Missouri Genealogical Society and Library, 1989. 162 pages.

Grand Army of the Republic--Missouri Division--Index to Death Rolls 1882-1940 . Marie Concannon. Columbia: The State Historical Society of Missouri, 1995. 184 pages.

Confederate P.O.W.S: Soldiers and Sailors Who Died in Federal Prisons and Military Hospitals in the North . Francis Ingmire and Carolyn Ericson. 1984. 525 pages.

Roll of Honor: Names of Soldiers Who Died in Defense of the American Union, Interred in the National Cemeteries. Washinton, D.C.: Government Printing Office.

Confederate Surrender and Parole Jacksonport and Wittsburg, Arkansas, May and June 1865. Jerry Ponder and Victor Ponder. 1995. approx. 175 pages.

Veterans

A Guide to Civil War Collections. James Bantin. Columbia: State Historical Society of Missouri, 1995. 86 pages.

Arkansas Confederate Veterans and Widows Pension Applications. Francis T. Ingmire. 1985. 442 pages.

Arkansas Union Soldiers Pension Application Index. Desmond Walls Allen. Arkansas Research, 1987. 180 pages.

"Old Soldiers Home": Arkansas Confederate Soldiers and Widows . Francis T. Ingmire. 1985. 28 pages.

Index to Arkansas Confederate Pension Applications. Desmond Walls Allen. Arkansas Research, 1991. 322 pages.

1890 Missouri Veterans Census Index. Bryan Lee Dilts. Precision Indexing, Inc., 1993. 304 pages.

Cumulative Index: The Confederate Veteran Magazine, 1893-1932. Louis H. Manarin. Broadfoot Publishing Company, 1986. 3 vols, approx. 700 pages each.

Index to Missouri Military Pensioners, 1883. Marie Concannon, compiler. Columbia: The State Historical Society of Missouri, 1997. 94 pages.

Grand Army of the Republic--Missouri Division--Index to Death Rolls, 1882-1940. Marie Concannon and Josiah Parkinson, compilers. Columbia: State Historical Society of Missouri,1995. 183 pages.