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CPE WORKING PAPER SERIES
THE CIVIL WAR PENSION LAW
Claudia Linares
Working Paper 2001-6
http://www.cpe.uchicago.edu/publication/publication.html
CENTER FOR POPULATION ECONOMICS
1101 East 58th Street
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November 2001
During the Civil War the Navy expanded from a peace time strength of approximately 8,500 to 51,000 officers and enlisted. In order to accomodate the needs of this vastly larger force, the Secretary of the Interior leased several wards at the Government Asylum for the Insane (known today as St. Elizabeth's) for use as a temporary Naval hospital.
The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System is a computerized database containing very basic facts about servicemen who served on both sides during the Civil War. The initial focus of the CWSS is the Names Index Project, a project to enter names and other basic information from 6.3 million soldier records in the National Archives. The facts about the soldiers were entered from records that are indexed to many millions of other documents about Union and Confederate Civil War soldiers maintained by the National Archives and Records Administration.
Other information includes: histories of regiments in both the Union and Confederate Armies, links to descriptions of 384 significant battles of the war, and other historical information. Additional information about soldiers, sailors, regiments, and battles, as well as prisoner-of-war records and cemetery records, will be added over time.
Between the 1860 and 1870 federal censuses, there were state censuses, statewide tax lists, military lists, and other statewide name lists produced for Union and Confederate states, including territories and states created during the Civil War.
American Civil War Research Database ... the largest, most in-depth and fully searchable database of American Civil War soldiers and events (subscription site)
I established this site in 2001 as a place to record news, notes and narratives as I research and write about volunteer soldiers who served during the Civil War. Today, it is home to information about Faces of War, my column in the Civil War News, and my books, Faces of the Civil War and Faces of the Confederacy.