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Some of the major records sources that can be used for genealogy research in American Military include:
- Amnesty papers and Presidential pardons
- Bounty Land Warrants
- Casualty records
- Cemetery records
- Compiled Service records, including muster rolls and personal papers
- Conscription/draft records
- Correspondence
- Courts-martials
- Descriptive lists, books, and rolls
- Discharge papers
- Enlistment papers
- Headstone applications
- Magazines
- Manuscripts, letters, and diaries
- Maps
- Medical and hospital records
- Military biographies
- Militia records
- Morning reports
- Newspapers
- Non-regimental and untypical soldier records
- Official Records and Supplement to the Official Records
- Orders
- Pensions
- POW, parole lists, and other related documents
- Prison records
- Reference works
- Regimental histories
- Rejected applications
- Returns from military posts
- Soldiers’, sailors’, and widows’ homes
- Southern claims and civilian records
- Substitutes
- Taxes
- U.S. Federal census and state census records
- Unfiled papers
- Veteran / Lineage Society records