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I am Private Church of the 2nd Michigan Volunteer Infantry. I have created this page for the purpose of helping people find ancestors in the Civil War.

Due to a great demand by people researching their ancestors I have decided to add tips on how to locate them and people that may be of help.

Some people get confused and do not know where to turn for information on Civil War ancestors or end up hiting brick walls.

Here is some of he information that I think will help you in your search.

  1. Many Civil War ancestors used alias to join for different reasons. Some where to young to join. Some ran away from Pre-arranged marriages. (Don't laugh Franklin Thomas AKA Sarah Emma Edmonds was one of these) Some were wanted by the law. British North Americans (Canadians) were baned by law from joining so many took aliases and possibly many more reasons.

  2. After years of traveling and numerous battles some of the Regiments records became a little confused. An example of this was over 500 soldiers transfered from the 27th Michigan to the 2nd Michigan.

  3. If you walk into any Civil War Cemetary you will find numerous "Unknown" soldiers. In many cases the soldiers were moved to National Cemetaries after the war and many ended up with that title. In our days a simple DNA test could be made and links to familly easier to achieve but that was not the case back then. To try to do it now would be Extremely Expensive.

  4. AWOL (Absent Without Leave) and Dishonable Discharges, as with some cases with the 2nd Michigan, the soldiers never appeared on the Michigan Nominal Roll at the start of the war. i do not know the reason behind this but I guess it was some form of punishment.

If you think you can add more to these please let me know as any information could be of great help.

Below I have added some links that could be helpfull in your search for Civil War Soldiers. If their Web Page is of no help E-Mail them and see what they can do for you.

My favorite links.

  1. Mich in the War
  2. S.U.V.C.W.
  3. M.O.L.L.U.S.
  4. Civil War Web
  5. G.A.R. (Grand Army of the Republic)
  6. ACW Homepage
  7. Sons of Confederate Veterans of Tennessee
  8. Canadian in the American Civil War
  9. *Great CW Info Page*
  10. *Death by State*
  11. CW Regimental Archive
  12. Information on Cemeteries
  13. ACW Info Archives
  14. ACW Homepage
  15. USCT, CC & CHA

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