CivilWarData.com is a compilation of information about the Civil War
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American Civil War Research Database
Description
About the American Civil War Research Database
The study and review of the American Civil War has generally focused on the senior military officers and major battles and not on an analytical look at the War from the perspective of the individual soldier. Using information from each soldier's military and civilian experiences to build a database from "ground up" rather than "top down", Historical Data Systems has created the only database of its kind that can be used for statistical and analytical examinations of the War. It is now possible to examine and measure the impact these individual soldier experiences had upon regimental effectiveness.
The American Civil War Research Database is a relational database. This means that there are numerous files (i.e. roster records, pension index records, GAR records, etc. ) which are "related" to each other. With HDS' Database the "relationship" or connection between these multiple files is the soldier's name. These files contain information gathered from the different sources used as discussed below. (See the bibliography section for a data source list.) Not every soldier is in every file, nor is the type of information about a soldier in a particular file the same for every other soldier in that same file. Also, the pace at which we at HDS can enter the information about each soldier will vary significantly based on the type of source documents available to us. Therefore, the Database is not a complete biographical story on each soldier, but rather a source of significant war and post war events that a soldier experienced that can be used for the study of the Civil War.
Building a soldier's story is a continuous process that requires information from varied and diverse sources; sources that have often been generally unavailable or inaccessible to the public. By utilizing relational database technology HDS can continue to expand the Database as the source information becomes available to us. Our primary source of information comes from the State Rosters as published by the Adjutants' General of each state. In addition to this primary source, we have begun to enter information for Roll of Honor soldiers, soldiers awarded the Medal of Honor, soldiers or family members who filed for pensions (pension record index information), 1860 census town summary information, 1890 enumeration of Civil War veterans or widows, regimental histories, etc. Data entry for these files is slower than for our primary sources since the data entry process is more complex.
Contact
Administrative:
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- DUXBURY MA
- US 02331-0035
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- (781) 934-1353
Registrant:
- Historical Data Systems Inc.
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- Duxbury MA
- US 02331
Additional Information
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