· Fold3.com is an on-line data base that contains most of the civil war military records that have been digitized.
· The National Archives "NARA" has digitized pension records for Union soldiers but also maps, photographs and letters.
· Confederate pension records are mostly at the State level.
· Tracing Your Civil War Ancestor, by Bertram Hawthorne Groene, John P. Blair publisher. Available on Amazon.
· The "OR" or Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies and "ORN" for the Navies, in the War of the Rebellion. These are part of the U.S. Serial set containing 128 volumes for the army alone! They are available at some libraries.
· Library of Congress also has "Confederate States of America Records" collection. Go to website.
· "Civil War Books": A Critical Bibliography, by Allan Nevins, James I Robertson, Jr. and Bell I Wiley.
· Military Bibliography of the Civil War, by Charles E. Bornburch (published by the New York Library.
· Official Army Register of the Volunteer of the US Army for the years 1861, 1862, 1863, 18164, 1865, a work put together by the US Adjutant General's Office. [Different from OR?]
· In Virginia, consult information on Confederate volunteers held by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in Richmond. It is a gold mine of information about confederate soldiers.
· Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg and the West Virginia Department of Culture and History hold information on Union volunteers, Charleston West VA. Information on Union volunteers is held by the West VA Dept of Culture and History, Charleston.
· Source books for regimental histories and rosters: Virginial Regimental Histories Series, edited by H. E. Howard (135 volumes); and a Guide to Virginia Military Organizations by Lee A. Wallace.
· Information on colored regiments is less documented but there are biographies and pictures mixed in with the white information. See: Library of Congress (and African American Museum?

Note: MVGS is starting an African American special interest group led by Carol Campbell.