 The military records of the soldiers
in the Civil War comprise one of the richest sources of information about
the war and those who fought in it. The Valley project has compiled a
military dossier or file on each soldier from Franklin and Augusta--over
15,000 dossiers in all. The dossiers represent compiled information on
the individual soldier from several sources: The Compiled Service Record
(CSR) of the soldier at National Archives, census information, obituaries,
post war rosters and accounts, pensions, and grave markers.
The military dossiers in the database are those ONLY of Augusta and
Franklin soldiers. This database does not include every man in
the regiment or company, but only those from Augusta or Franklin. Queries of
regimental or company statistics should not be treated as complete, but
only representative of what happened to the men from Augusta and
Franklin.
The Military Dossiers database is designed to be searchable for all sorts
of data. You can search for the number of Augusta soldiers wounded at
Gettysburg or for a specific individual. You can search for all Franklin
soldiers captured at Antietam or for all the Franklin men from a
particular regiment. These databases are more than just rosters--they
allow for a wide range of sorting and organizing.
The Franklin Co. 1890 Special U.S. Population Census for Veterans was fully
transcribed by the Valley Project and put into a database format.
This special census was taken in addition to the regular U.S. census
in 1890. It includes information about the soldiers: family
information, name of widow or children, unit fought in, and remarks
on wounds and discharge information. This census represents what the
soldier or widow told the enumerator, not what the government kept in
its military service records. As a result some of the data could conflict
with data in the service records and names not in the service records
might appear in the 1890 census.
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