Lesson XI
Military and Veterans Benefit Records

Suggested Reading

• U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. Civil War and Later Navy Personnel Records at the National Archives, 1861-1924
  Description of records of Naval personnel from the Civil War through 1924 at the National Archives. Article by Lee D. Bacon published in the Summer 1995 issue of the NARA publication Prologue.
• U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. Confederate Medical Personnel
  Description of records of Confederate medical personnel at the National Archives. Article by DeAnne Blanton published in the Spring 1994 issue of the NARA publication Prologue.

Finding Aids

• U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. Access to Military Service and Pension Records
  List of available military and pension records at the National Archives with the procedures for ordering records by mail from both the National Archives and the National Personnel Records Center.
• U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. Civil War Records
  Guide to Civil War records of the Union and the Confederacy at the National Archives.
• U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. Confederate Pension Records
  List of repositories of Confederate pension records in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.
• U.S. National Archives and Records Administration - Requesting NATF Form 85 and NATF Form 86
  Order copies of NATF Form 85, “National Archives Order for Copies of Federal Pension or Bounty Land Warrant Applications,” and NATF Form 86, “National Archives Order for Copies of Military Service Records.”
• U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. Military Service Records: A Select List of NARA Microfilm Publications
  Online version of the National Archives microfilm catalog of military service and pension records.