(The following is cut/pasted from the top of the paper I was writing on the CW
cards from about 5 years ago).
I have just decided to include the entire Civil War list to the web site very
soon, but it will have alot of cautions because this list IS incomplete and
NOT proofed.
Eventually this list will be in the Chamblee book, but in proofed form along
with our Revolutionary War and 1812 War ancestors.
Please put up things you have found: cemeteries, strange citations in books,
referenced records, anything that can help each other.
--D'Ann
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INDEX TO CIVIL WAR CONFEDERATE VOLUNTEER RECORDS FOR CHAMBLEE/CHAMLEE
Extracted by D'Ann Stoddard (Actual title of film is "Consolidated Index to
Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers")
NOTE: These are file cards for volunteer troops only, records of draftees must
be obtained from the National Archives. Care has been taken to extract the
information "exactly" as it reads on each card as much as possible including
the "originally filed under" and "see also" categories. [NOTE: I
typed
"exactly" thinking I was going to go back and proof the cards again against my
extraction, but I never did.] .
Full pension files, etc., should be sent for for any soldier of interest
inasmuch as there can much family information. In some cases the ink had
faded, film was scratched badly, etc. There are no extractions of Chamblin,
Chamlin, Chambless, Chamless names here unless a particularly name was an
alternate spelling or of interest in some specific way. Undoubtedly there are
soldiers of the Chamblin, Chamlin, Chamless, Chambless, etc., spellings that
are "really" Chamblee/Chamlee kin. A specific search under these alternative
spellings is helpful to find a particular ancestor.
As one compares the different individuals and their outfits in each state, it
is noticeable that the names of the companies and the men may have been
duplicated on the cards in error.
Categories on cards were:
NAME COMPANY RANK COMMENTS
OFU = Originally filed under ("originally filed under" is a category on the
card; this probably was used by civil servants extracting these records for
alternative spelling guesses for the
soldier)
AFU = Also filed under (I used this category to designate that this is the 2nd
alternative spelling used; the "original cards" do not indicate an second
alternative card with a difference
spelling)