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Waul's Texas Legion : Soldiers roster name index
This total list contains 4388 names, some soldiers are duplicated due to spelling variations of their name.
List shows a reference number, the soldiers last name, first name, company, rank at enlistment and rank at the end of his enlistment.
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.
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[ H- I ] [ J-K ] [ L ] [ M ] [ N-O ] [ P-Q ]
[ R ] [ S ] [ T ] [ U-V ] [ W ] [ Y-Z ]
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Civil war soldiers & sailors system of the National Parks Service.
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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.
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