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Concerning the names listed on the rosters included in the Exploits of Waul's Texas Legion:
Names are gleaned from of the National Parks Service. The names are on the lists gathered and made available by the National Parks Service Soldiers and Sailors Civil War System from the general index cards kept by the National Archives and Records Administration.
The two paragraphs below are from the civil war soldiers and sailors civil war system information page .
During the American Civil War, every two weeks on average, usually at the company level, soldiers' names were recorded on muster rolls. Beginning in the 1880s General Ainsworth's staff in the Department of the Army indexed these records originally to determine who was eligible for a pension. His staff wrote a card for every time a soldier's name appeared on a muster roll. When Ainsworth's staff finished the Compiled Military Service records, each soldier's file usually had many cards representing each time the soldier's name appeared on a muster roll.
One type of card, the General Index Card listed the soldier's name, the soldier's rank at the time of enlistment from the first card and the date the soldier left the service with the soldier's final rank from the last card. These General Index cards form the basis for the Civil War Soldiers System. When Ainsworth's staff completed the project, there were 5.4 million General Index Cards for the soldiers - both Union and Confederate - who had served during the American Civil War. Historians have determined that approximately 3.5 million soldiers actually fought in the War. A soldier serving in more than one regiment, serving under two names, or spelling variations resulted in the fact that there are 5.4 million General Index Cards for 3.5 million soldiers.
Related materials concerning Waul's Texas Legion.
At the library of Congress Washington D.C.
Title: Waul's Texas Legion, 1862-1865 / by Robert A. Hasskarl and Leif R. Hasskarl.
Confederate Troops: Texas Infantry, Waul's Texas Legion
Author: Hasskarl, Robert A.
Published: Ada, OK (Rt. 4, Box 574, Ada 74820) : R.A. Hasskarl, c1985.
Description: viii, 209 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
LC Call No.: E580.5.W38H37 1985
url : http://www.loc.gov/rr/main/uscivilwar/E5805W38.html
Dewey No.: 973.7/464 19Notes: Bibliography: p. 191-194.
Includes index.
Subjects:
Confederate States of America. Army.
Waul's Texas Legion -- History.
Confederate States of America. Army. Waul's Texas Legion -- Registers.
Texas -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 --Regimental histories.
Texas -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 --Registers.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865-- Regimental histories.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865-- Registers.
Texas -- Genealogy.
Registers of births, etc. -- Texas.
Soldiers -- Texas -- Genealogy.
Other authors: Hasskarl, Leif R.
Control No.: 510125
Confederate Military History, Extended Edition. Vol. 15: Texas. Wilmington, NC:
Broadfoot,1989. E484C65.1987v15.Contains numerous, scattered references to Texas units.
Crute, Joseph H., Jr.
Units of the Confederate States Army.
Midlothian, VA: Derwent Books,1987.
Ref.See pp. 346-47 (1 photocopied page) for a concise summary of the battery's service.
Fitzhugh, Lester N.
Texas Batteries, Battalions, Regiments, Commanders and Field Officers,Confederate States Army, l86l- l865.
Midlothian, TX: Mirror Pr, 1959. E580.3F5. See pp. 32-33 (1 photocopied page) for a list of officers.
Sifakis, Stewart.
Compendium of the Confederate Armies: Texas.
NY: Facts on File, 1995.p. 5 (1 photocopied page). E580S53.1995. (Unit organizational history).
Edwin Bearss'
The Vicksburg Campaign
Marcus J. Wright, comp., and Harold B. Simpson, ed.,
Texas in the War, 1861-1865
(Hillsboro, Texas: Hill Junior College Press, 1965)E5809W7
The war of the rebellion:
A compilation of the official records of the Union and Confederate armies. / Series 1 - Volume 1
Author: United States. War Dept., United States. Record and Pension Office., United States. War Records Office., et al.
Publisher: Govt. Print. Off. Publication Date: 1880
City: Washington
Pages: 768 page with images
Compiled service records on microfilm
One may search for microfilm records at the National Archives website found at URL http://www.archives.gov/research_room/obtain_copies/veterans_service_records.html
Miltary service records main page : http://www.archives.gov/publications/microfilm_catalogs/military/military_service_records.html
National Archives Civil War record resources:
http://www.archives.gov/research_room/alic/reference_desk/military_resources/civil_war_resources.htmlCompiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers who served in organizations from the State of Texas are indexed on microfilm M227. 41 rolls. 16mm. DP.
The complete rolls are M323 - [ ]. 445 rolls. 16mm.
The compiled service records to which this index applies are reproduced on roll M323 ( 1- 41 )
Roll Description
1 A--As
2 At--Bd
3 Bea--Boc
4 Bod--Brou
5 Brow--Bz
6 C--Cha
7 Che--Con
8 Coo--Cy
9 D--Dez
10 Dh--Dz
11 E--Fem
12 Fen--Fug
13 Ful--Gl
14 Go--Gw
15 H--Harp
16 Harr--Hen
17 Heo--Hol
18 Hom--I
19 J
20 K
21 L--Lig
22 Lih--Mal
23 Man--McCl
24 McCo--McM
25 McN--Mol
26 Mom--My
27 N--Or
28 Os--Pet
29 Peu--Py
30 Q--Rie
31 Rif--Rum
32 Run--Sei
33 Sel--Sl
34 Sm--Stas
35 Stat--Sz
36 T--Ti
37 Tn--V
38 W--Wer
39 Wes--Will
40 Wilm--Wy
41 X--Z
These microfilm rolls can be found in some of the larger Texas public Libraries and in some National Archives regional facilities.
Be careful - some regimental commander's names are duplicated in other numeric regiments.
The Microfilm Series is also M323. The microfilm roll number follows it.M 323 - 213 Steele's Command Texas Cavalry
M323 - 422 Timmons' Infantry A--Ha
M323 - 423 Timmons' Infantry He--O
M323 - 424 Timmons' Infantry P--Z
M323 - 425 Waul's Legion (Infantry, Cavalry, and Artillery) A--Bl
M323 - 426 Waul's Legion (Infantry, Cavalry, and Artillery) Bo--Cl
M323 - 427 Waul's Legion (Infantry, Cavalry, and Artillery) Co--E
M323 - 428 Waul's Legion (Infantry, Cavalry, and Artillery) F--G
M323 - 429 Waul's Legion (Infantry, Cavalry, and Artillery) H--I
M323 - 430 Waul's Legion (Infantry, Cavalry, and Artillery) J--Ll
M323 - 431 Waul's Legion (Infantry, Cavalry, and Artillery) Lo--Me
M323 - 432 Waul's Legion (Infantry, Cavalry, and Artillery) Mi--Pa
M323 - 433 Waul's Legion (Infantry, Cavalry, and Artillery) Pe--Sa
M323 - 434 Waul's Legion (Infantry, Cavalry, and Artillery) Sc--Sr
M323 - 435 Waul's Legion (Infantry, Cavalry, and Artillery) St--V
M323 - 436 Waul's Legion (Infantry, Cavalry, and Artillery) W--Z
Online Sources
Texas State Archives : Search for your soldier's records:
Confederate Pension Applications is a searchable database of some 54,634 approved, rejected, and home pensions issued by Texas between 1899 and 1975. A database entry provides a pensioner's name, county of residence, and pension number. A widow's entry includes her husband's name.
Adjutant General Service Records is a searchable database to the official service record files from the Adjutant General's Office and alphabetical files created by other agencies containing records related to an individual's service in the military. The database provides the name, the military organization, and the call number. Please note that the listing does not include the names of ALL persons who served in Texas military organizations. It indexes only the names of persons who have files in this record series.
Confederate Indigent Families List is an index to county-wide lists of the dependents of soldiers serving the Confederacy during the Civil War eligible for relief.
Civil War Soldiers & Sailors System
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/WW/qkw2.html
Nancy Carol Roberts Memorial Library.
Washington County, Texas
Includes information : History of Waul's Legion- Civil WarBradley (L.D.) Papers, 1859-1887, Pearce Civil War Collection, Navarro College, Corsicana, Texas
Cornell University : The making of America
[ ? ] . "Into the Breach: The Soldiers' Story of Waul's Texas Legion," Paul K Ryan, Texas, San Antonio.
Vicksburg Memorial National Park
National Parks Service : List of Confederate soldiers paroled from Vicksburg
http://www.cba.uh.edu/~parks/tex/texreb1.html
Alton ( Illinois) in the civil war prison records
Benjamin L. Bowen's :
The Exploits of Waul's Texas Legion Table of Contents.
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