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Subject: [ILPIKE] New online Civil War database
This was in the Chicago Sun-Times today:
Database lists Civil War soldiers all in one place
October 4, 2004
Civil War buffs, historians and people adding branches to their family
trees
can now go to a single source to find service records of 6.3 million
Union
and Confederate soldiers.
Completion of a database called the Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System
was
announced last week at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., by
the
National
Park Service.
"Never in one place could one get this information so easily," spokesman
Gerry Gaumer said.
Volunteers from the Mormon Church, Federation of Genealogical Societies
and
United Daughters of the Confederacy did the monumental task of
assembling
information from disparate sources and entering it at
_www.civilwar.nps.gov_
(
http://www.civilwar.nps.gov<http://www.civilwar.nps.gov/>) .
"It's like a concordance to the Scriptures," said Jerry Kowalski,
president
of the Chicago Civil War Round Table. "This will be one of the
best tools
available for people studying their own lineage and genealogy."
Gail Santroch, president of the Chicago Genealogical Society, said, "It
saves
you the trouble of going to the National Archives and looking on
the
microfilm."
"This is wonderfully valuable," said Theodore Karamanski, a Civil War
expert
at Loyola University Chicago. "The service record is the first
thing you
look
at."
Karamanski tapped into a listing of Medal of Honor winners and within
seconds
turned up local hero Cpl. James Warden of Lemont, who on May 22,
1863, at
Vicksburg displayed "gallantry in the charge of the volunteer storming
party."
Among Illinois' 24 other Medal of Honor winners was one Wellis H.
Blodgett
of
Downers Grove. On Sept. 30, 1862, in Newtonia, Mo., the lieutenant
"with
a
single orderly, captured an armed picket of eight men and marched
them in
[as]
prisoners."
The database lists 370,624 Union soldiers from Illinois, exceeded only by
the
then-much more populous states of New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio.
Historians generally accept 3.5 million as the number who served in the
War
Between the States. Why does the database contain 6.3 million
soldiers?
"There are duplicates, mostly because of men who served in more than one
unit
and name-spelling variations," said John Peterson of the
National Park
Service. The service manages 13 national cemeteries related to Civil War
battlegrounds.
Thousands of names of sailors remain to be added. Graduate students at
Howard
University in the nation's capital are pulling them together
now.
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