Confederate Service and Pension Records

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Confederate Govenment and State Service Records
Confederate service records may be on found in Confederate government records or they may be found in Confederate state records. Most Confederate soldiers served in a unit organized at the state level. These service records are maintained by each state that was part of the Confederacy. Soldiers usually served from their state of residence, but could have enlisted from any state within the Confederacy. This also is true concerning pension records. Veterans requested a pension from the state where they lived at the time of application--not the necessarily the state they enlisted and served under. See Confederate Service Records for more information.