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TN, GA, SC and NC all seceded from the Union and were part of the Confederacy. However, Union troops were initially raised in East Tennessee. North Georgia had many Union sympathizers at the beginning of the war. So, it's not surprising to find our Tri-State area's men enlisting into the Union forces in TN.  Later, their sentiment was for the Confederacy.


Men preferred to fight with those they knew and trusted.  So, they would enlist into companies that had other members of their families.  Before beginning Civil War research on a particular ancestor, know the county where they were residing and where their father, uncles, brothers and brothers-in-law were residing in 1860.   For a quick lookup, visit:

Enhanced 1860 Census at
 Footnote.com

Initially, enlistment into Union companies was only occurring as far South as East TN.   The Thomas Legion was NC 69th Regiment CSA that enlisted men from East TN as well as Western NC and also had several companies of Native Americans.

The Civil War
 The War of Northern Aggression
The War Between the States
 1861-1865

Chronology of the American Civil War - timeline of events

The Constitution:   Confederate States of America

The Emancipation Proclamation 1863

The Gettysburg Address - Nov 19, 1863

Civil War Battles by State - from National Park Service

Rare Maps of the Civil War - UGA - Hargett Library

Maps of the Civil War - from ehistory.com

Civil War, Medal of Honor Recipients:   A-L    M-Z

United Daughters of the Confederacy

Sons of Confederate Veterans

Sons of Union Veterans

The Civil War Home Page

Confederate and Union War Prisons

The Southern Home Front 1861-1865 - "Documenting the American South" Project at UNC at Chapel Hill

Searchable Databases: 
 

The searchable databases below are found at: 
  Ancestry.com

  • Headstones Provided for Deceased Union Civil War Veterans, 1879-1903
    Details for more than 166,000 gravestones provided by the government for deceased Union veterans

  • U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865
    Collection of military service records, containing more than 6 million names of servicemen - Union and Confederate - who fought in the U.S. Civil War, 1860-1865

  • Confederate Service Records, 1861-1865

  • Roster of Confederate soldiers in the War Between the States

  • Southern Loyalists in the Civil War

  • Civil War POW Records
    Collection of more than 1.5 million names from the Union and Confederate prisoner of war records

  • Tennessee Civil War Regimental Histories

  • Roster of North Carolina troops in the war between the states

.... for a complete list of titles, go here.

      The searchable databases below are found at:

 Footnote.com

  • Confederate Soldier Service Records

  • Union Soldier Service Records

  • Confederate Citizens File

  • Confederate Amnesty Papers

  • Southern Claims Commission

     GA State Archives' Virtual Vault:

The Civil War Soldiers & Sailors System -
is a 'free' comprehensive research tool for searching the records of the soldiers and sailors that fought in the Civil War.

Civil War Genealogy Database - add your relative and see who else has submitted info about them.  Online since 2002, the place where folks share the military records that have received from NARA or found elsewhere on-line. 

 

ST/County Specific:
 
   
 

     On-Line @ Ancestry.com :

  • eBook:  Spencer, Cornelia Phillips,. The Last Ninety Days of the War in North-Carolina. New York: Watchman Pub. Co., 1866.

  • eBook:  Cole, Arthur Charles,. The Era of the Civil War, 1848-1870. Springfield: Illinois Centennial Commission, 1919

  • eBook:  Ledford, P. L.. Reminiscences of the Civil War, 1861-1865. Thomasville, N.C.: unknown, 1979.

  • eBook:  Carter, W. R.. History of the First Regiment of Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry in the Great War of the Rebellion : with the armies of the Ohio and Cumberland, under Generals Morgan, Rosecrans, Thomas, Stanley and Wilson, 1862-1865. Knoxville, Tenn.: Gaut-Ogden Co., 1902.

  • eBook:  Thomas, John Peyre,. Historical Sketch of the South Carolina Military Academy : with an appendix. Charleston, S.C.: Walker, Evans & Cogswell, 1879.

  • eBook:  Hancock, R. R.. Hancock's diary, or, A history of the Second Tennessee Confederate Cavalry : with sketches of First and Seventh battalions, also, portraits and biographical sketches.. Nashville, Tenn.: Brandon Print. Co., 1887.

  • eBook:  Hawkins, Rush C.. An account of the assassination of loyal citizens of North Carolina for having served in the Union Army which took place at Kingston [sic] in the months of February and March, 1864. New York: unknown, 1897.

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