Civil War Soldier Registry

[Jewel]

If I missed my calling it would be on the side of Historian/Sociologist. My curiosity is fueled by searching for the effects of the Civil War that have devastated family lines and spawned generations of bitterness from death and divorce.

I literally saw that.

From the mid 1600s until the Civil war, each generation had longevity and abundance. 10-11 children born to one set of parents. Maybe one where the wife died before her time and the widowed husband married, with children from that marriage. Infant mortality almost unheard of. I haven't done the math on all the offspring, to look at health, but I didn't spot evidence of any dying during childhood.

When they migrated from Virginia, pre Civil war, I found the father and three sons with their families of 10 apiece, living on the land adjacent to one another. If I research the daughters, they may be there with their husbands. There were at least 36, same surname, clearly father and sons.

I haven't looked at the Virginia homestead, whether or not it was part of the Appalachians. When they went thru the Gap and settled in Ohio, they were in the heart of Ohio's Appalachia. Factor in the Civil War, then the move an hour north to Wheeling, W VA. Economically, they did very well in Wheeling, but the decisions that followed...you can see it's the beginning of the descent and the effects on the current generation.

For the extended family, they may have fared better and my specific relatives were atypical to the rest of the family. Or not. I'm not sure how far I want to dig, but if I do, they would be the ones.

[Jewel]

I did find what happened in the line I couldn't find. They had just gotten here and GGF wasn't healthy.

Tracing thru another line, they got here in 1719, with one fighting in the Revolutionary War, another in the War of 1812. I didn't see anything for the Civil War, but I'll check the link I posted.

Ancestry.com has microfilmed documents you can view. When looking thru the census records over decades, many of the same families are still in the area. At the point where one relative married into another neighbor family, thru the years you can see which family members from both sides left and which remained.

I haven't traced the states' migration of this line, but all roads lead to Ohio.

[praise3]

I have looked up my family in the Civil War, and have also researched soldiers in Civil War photos that I owned.
The database mentioned here is good and is free, but there is another civilwardata.com, I think it is called, that
does cost a small sum to join for a period of one year. It is better and easier to use than the free list, but it is not free!

My father's people were for the Union, and my mother's people were for the Confederacy, so I am betwixt and between.

[Jewel]

My father's people were for the Union, and my mother's people were for the Confederacy

That had to make for interesting dinner conversations.