A typical CSR will include an envelope that lists a soldier’s name, rank, unit, and card numbers, followed by cards with details extracted from muster rolls, rosters, hospital rolls, Union prison records, payrolls, and other records, with a new card being created each time a soldier’s name appeared on a new document. Note: Asterisk * denotes killed in action or died of wounds. U.S., Confederate Service Records, 1861-1865, U.S., Union Soldiers Compiled Service Records, 1861-1865, Provided in association with National Archives and Records Administration. [14] The Senate bill still needs to be combined with the House version of the same bill in the United States congressional conference committee before it can be sent to President Trump for his signature or veto. Soldiers on a base named after a Confederate general "can be reminded that that general fought for the institution of slavery that may have enslaved one of their ancestors," Milley said. This listing shows the names and ranks of some of the Regular Army of the Confederate States of America (ACSA) officers. This database contains an index to compiled service records (CSRs) for soldiers who served with units in the Confederate army. This listing shows the names and ranks of some of the Regular Army of the Confederate States of America (ACSA) officers. Most of the men whose names appear in this index served with units from 15 different states or territories; others were soldiers raised directly by the Confederate government, generals and staff officers, and other enlisted men not associated with a regiment. general officers in the Confederate States Army, United States congressional conference committee, List of name changes due to the George Floyd protests, "Trump: No change at bases named for Confederate officers", "Camp Beauregard, near Alexandria Louisiana in World War II", "Why Non-Slaveholding Southerners Fought", "Speech of Henry Benning to the Virginia Convention", "Pentagon won't rename Alabama's Ft. Rucker, named after Confederate officer", "Ten major Army bases honor Confederate generals, and there are no plans to change that", "Milley: Confederate names on Army bases divide the military", https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/06/confederate-bases-military-petraeus.html, https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/reversal-army-now-open-conversation-renaming-bases-named/story?id=71151951, "S.4049 - National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021", "Despite Trump's Veto Threat, Senate Approves Provision To Rename Military Bases", "What to rename the Army bases that honor Confederate soldiers", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_U.S._Army_installations_named_for_Confederate_soldiers&oldid=978182105, Confederate States of America monuments and memorials, Lists of United States placename etymology, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 13 September 2020, at 11:20. For more information about Fold3. The task of compiling these records for Confederate soldiers began in 1903. He has recommended creating a commission to study the matter. The records include abstracts of entries relating to the soldier as found in the following original records: If Congress were to pass such legislation, said Trump's press secretary, the president would not sign it. Search For Soldiers The Civil War was the first war in American history in which a substantial proportion of the adult male population participated. Abstracts were made form documents in the War Department Collection of Confederate Records and from documents borrowed by the War Department in an effort to obtain as nearly complete military service records as possible. And, of course, those fighting to secede were doing so to preserve the rights of their states to enslave others, with those 'others' now roughly 20 percent of the soldiers serving on those bases. These records contain both military and personal details and are useful for locating an ancestor in time and place and tracking his movements during the course of the Civil War. This index also includes Confederate soldiers who later served with the Union Army. Information available about a soldier includes his name, unit, and rank. It does not include *general officers. The age range of the Confederate Army’s First Conscription Act in 1862 was 18 to 35 but the Third Conscription Act in 1864 changed it to 17 to 50.