Tracing your Civil War ancestor

by Bertram Hawthorne Groene

With this book as a guide and with a minimum of information, anyone should be able to trace the military history of his Civil War ancestor from mustering in to mustering out. Written by an experienced historian, genealogist, and collector, the book has been especially designed for those who are descendants of Civil War veterans, but it should be of inestimable value also to historians, genealogists, collectors, antique dealers, and anyone interested in the lore of the Civil War period. Information on literally hundreds of thousands of Civil War soldiers' lives and military experiences is available to anyone who knows how to extract it from the millions of state and federal records and the countless books wherein this information is preserved. Tracing a particular veteran's story is not necessarily difficult, and anyone should be able to do it, with a little time and at very little expense, by following the suggestions in this book. Descendants of Civil War veterans can use this book to