15. Civil War and Reconstruction Records

are located in microfilm Drawers 67-79. The first four drawers of this cabinet house the Consolidated Index to Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers for all Confederate States listed in alphabetical order by the soldier’s name (we have S. C. Service Records & General Staff Records only).

The South Carolina Service Records referred to in this index are located in film Drawers 70 - 73. If you find a listing in the Consolidated Index to "General Staff" this refers to the records of all Confederate staff officers and non-regimental enlisted men on film in Drawer 75 also contains the Confederate Historian’s Roll of S. C. Volunteers in the Confederate States Provisional Army indexed (partially) in the old card catalog described in MAP KEY 12.

In Drawer 76, you will find the index and records to S. C. Confederate Pension Applications, 1919-1926, for Confederate veterans or their widows - also available on the [On-Line Indexes] at MAP KEY 1.

Reconstruction Records such as the Freedmen’s Bureau Records and the Southern Claims Commission can be found in Drawers 78-79. This last drawer also contains records of Confederate Troops Paroled in North Carolina, 1862-1865, and Compiled Service Records of Union Troops (Black).

Also see Patrick McCawley, Guide to Civil War Records - A Guide to the Records in the S. C. Department of Archives and History located at CD 3504 .S68 M2, and the Microfilm Lists Notebook.