Tuesday, August 6, 2019

Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War (Database Links)

For searching Michigan soldiers in the Civil War, this is great resource is online at several sites. In some sites, the volumes are both searchable and browseable, though for browsing, it is most helpful to know the soldier's name, branch of service, and regiment. Typically the summary of the soldier's career will include (but is not limited to) the name, rank, company, regiment, age at enlistment, date of enlistment, place of enlistment, promotions, captures and wounds, and date and place of discharge (or death).

Record of service of Michigan volunteers in the civil war, 1861-1865 (volumes 1-46). Pub. by authority of the Senate and House of representatives of the Michigan Legislature under the direction of Brig. Gen. Geo. H. Brown, adjutant general.

Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers In the Civil War, 1861-1865, vols. 1-46.
Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers (database)

The source I used to search for soldiers in the Second Michigan Cavalry was volume 32 in the above series, two copies made available by the University of Michigan, and another, by Michigan State University. This is one of the University of Michigan copies, with link):


Service of Michigan Volunteers In the Civil War, 1861-1865, Vol. 32. Michigan, Adjutant-General’s Dept. (Kalamazoo, Mich.: Ihling bros. & Everard, printers, 190-), Hathitrust Digital Library, babel.hathitrust.org.

Link to Volume 32 (not sure it will work, no permanent link was given): 
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015071160736&view=2up&seq=8

The same resource is searchable on Ancestry.com, though I noticed that the search mechanism doesn't seem to retrieve results well with the soldier's given name--just the surname. The series is browseable as well as searchable. This link is to a catalog of all volumes in the series:


https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/genealogy-glh20944174/







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