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Beginner’s Corne BASIC HELP TO GET YOU OFF TO A QUICK START Military Records: Follow-Up & Trivia ABy Do n n a Po t t e r Ph i l l i p s As a follow-up to my article in the Sep-Oct 2008 issue (“Women’s Roles in U.S. Military History”) I heard from two very enthusiastic researchers. Mary Louise Jesek Daley emailed that “my husband and I belong to an organization called Society for Women and the Civil War. The mission of this group is to promote the research and education about women’s roles during the Civil War. Our membership includes authors, independent and affiliated researchers, scholars of all disciplines, genealogists, archivists, museum professionals, librarians, students, historians, teachers, re-enactors, and living historians. We discuss and research and present information on topics relative to the study of women and the Civil War. For more information, go to our website, www.swcw. org. Here you will find resources and books available to continue any personal research and discover some really neat roles that women took on themselves to the credit of their gender.” Mary Louise went on to explain, “Before 10-12 years ago, women’s history and especially the role of women during the American Civil War, was very seldom discussed. Yet, contemporary accounts tout the energy, help, and guidance of women during the Civil War period in a variety of roles that they chose to undertake. Today there is so much scholarship coming out of many sources, many of them unlikely and nontraditional sources. Men and women are finding their own ancestor’s involvement, writing about this and sharing that information.” Thanks, Mary Louise, for the follow-up and for the website where we can learn more. Another follow-up was shared with me by Nancy Leathers, a long-time friend in Pullman, Washington (75 miles south of Spokane). Nancy told me of a favorite book, All the Daring of the Soldier: Women of the Civil War, by Elizabeth D. Leonard. The jacket of this book states: “These are the fascinating stories of the women who worked as spies, as daughter of the regiments, or, disguised as male soldiers to play their heroic part in the Civil War. Historian Elizabeth D. Leonard has combed archives, memoirs, and histories to unearth the stories of the hidden and forgotten women who risked their lives for the blue or gray.” This book was published in 1999, is 368 pages in length, and has 65 pages of footnotes and 17 pages of bibliography. I did a search for it at www.abebooks. com and found that I could order a copy for under $5.00. Just might do that! Now for some “military trivia.” Did you realize that there is military information contained in the U.S. Federal Census records Pulling the following from a handout by Miriam Robbins Midkiff here in Spokane, I share a list of possibilities with you: • 1840 census—lists Revolutionary War pensioners and their widows. • 1890 census (remnants) —asked whether was a Union or Confederate soldier, sailor or marine, or widow of such a person. • 1890 Union Veterans Schedule—lists Union veterans and their widows. • 1900—first census to list active-duty personnel. • 1910—lists military and naval personnel in the Philippines, in hospitals, aboard ships and at stations. • 1920—lists overseas military and naval population. • 1930—lists whether a person was a veteran and from which war or expedition. Miriam’s handout mentions other, lesser-known State Censuses that contain military information: • 1777 Rhode Island Military Census—all males over age 16 able to bear arms. • 1863 Georgia Military Census—all males, including children; included name and age, indicated whether they owned a rifle, shotgun, horse and tack. • 1885 Dakota Territory Veterans Census—name of veteran, whether Union or Confederate service and Civil War state. • 1907 Alabama Confederate Veterans Census—all persons in Alabama receiving a pension for Confederate service. • 1911 Arkansas Confederate Veterans Census—lists several points of identification for veterans. • 1917 Connecticut State Military Preparedness Census—lists all males and all nurses; lists several points of identification. • 1921 Alabama Confederate Veterans Census— taken by mail; original forms available at the Alabama Department of Archives and History. 62 © Ev e r t o n’s Ge n e a l o g i c a l He l p e r Ja n ua ry/Fe b r u a r y 2009
Beginne ’s Corne Civil War were read in the House of Representatives by Joseph G. Cannon and are as follows: • Those 10 years and under—25 • Those 11 years and under—38 • Those 12 years and under—225 • Those 13 years and under—300 • Those 14 years and under—1523 • Those 15 years and under—104,987 • Those 16 years and under—231,051 • Those 17 years and under—844,891 • Those 18 years and under—1,151,438 The article continued: • Those 21 years and under—2,159,789 • Those 22 years and over—618,511 • Those 25 years and over—46,626 Boy Soldier of the Civil War • 1935 and 1945 South Dakota State Censuses— information collected on index cards and houses at the State Historical Society in Pierre, SD; being indexed by FamilySearch. You might have to do a bit of research to access these various censuses, but if you are facing a brick wall with your military-serving ancestor, the task might be worthwhile. For more information, check out Dollarhide’s Census Substitutes and State Census Records, Volumes 1 & 2 for even more censuses with military information, as well as data detailing where to locate and access them. See: www.familyrootspublishing.com. Here is even more interesting trivia: According to an article in the Colville Examiner, Colville, Stevens County, Washington, for October 19, 1918, the Civil War fighters were mostly boys. “Surprise is often expressed that there are so many veterans of the Civil War still living. The fact is that the war was fought, at least on the northern side, by boys. Of the 2,159,798 enlisted there wee only 46,626 who were over 25 years old. The official figures of the age at enlistment in the “It will be noticed from this statement that the greatest number of enlistments were of boys 18 and under. In a great number of cases these boys became officers before they were 20, some of them even reaching the rank of captain. The methods of war have so changed that in future armies there must be a far greater portion of mature men. There must be a large number who can handle the intricate, complex, and deathdealing machinery and engines of destruction. But as far as the Civil War was concerned, the fighting was done by boys. And there are still 400,000 of them alive.” (Remember, this newspaper article was dated October 1918, so 400,000 veterans were alive in 1918.) Keeping the statistics chronicled in this newspaper article, to know that so many different census records have information on these veterans takes on a newer and bigger importance. Good luck finding information on your patriotic ancestor of any gender and of any age. Donna Potter Phillips writes from Spokane where she is an avid reader, gardener, birdwatcher, traveler, and grandmother of eight. She is active in her state and local societies, and is a Past President of Eastern Washington Genealogical Society (EWGS) and Past Vice-President of WSGS. Since 1985 she has written for newspaper genealogy columns, family newsletters, and magazines—the Genealogical Helper, Heritage Quest Magazine, Ancestry, Family Chronicle, Internet Genealogy and Genealogy Bulletin; as well as assisting with he Salt Lake Christmas Tour to the Family History Library. Ja n ua ry/Fe b r u a r y 2009 Ev e r t o n’s Ge n e a l o g i c a l He l p e r © 63
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