The American Civil War Research Database™ is live

I am excited to announce the release of Alexander Street's latest history database - The American Civil War Research Database™.  Free trials are now available for your institution.

The American Civil War Research Database™ is the definitive online resource for researching the soldiers, regiments, and battles of the American Civil War. Originally created by Historical Data Systems, Inc., the database contains indexed, searchable information on over 4 million soldiers and thousands of battles, together with 15,000 photographs. With thousands of regimental rosters and officer profiles, the database will continue to grow as new information is loaded bi-annually.

In addition to 222 volumes of rosters published by the state Adjutants Generals, the database includes the military records for every soldier in the collection as well as Official Records, pension index records, 1860 census records, Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) records, Roll of Honor records, Medal of Honor records, and regimental histories. This information has been compiled from personal items, graveyards, and newspaper reports.

Database users can examine the military record for each soldier, or even search the entire research collection by soldier, regiment, state, and battle. The database also allows users to trace the war effort using critical statistics including average age, method of entry into and exit from the military, war engagements, and associated loss and prisoner statistics. Researchers can go below the big picture to analyze the details of specific regiments where they saw combat, their casualty statistics, and the effects of disease. They can also use census information to decipher the impact on a particular soldier's hometown.

Analytical tools are a distinctive feature of The American Civil War Research Database™, letting you identify a large-scale trend and then focus down to the regiment or individual soldier. Dozens of charts and graphs give an immediate visual understanding of complex data. Users of the database can see, for example, a chart analyzing death by disease and then explore the Regimental Casualty Analysis and the Regimental Assignment charts for clues to the reasons.

Request a free trial or contact us for more information on this and other Civil War databases from Alexander Street Press.

 

Comments

[andrea brown]

I am doing a research project for my history class and I am trying to locate a person whose grave I found in Whitwell, TN- that I think may have fought in the civil war. His tombstone reads:

JNO.POE
GO F. (the G could be a C and it could have a letter in between the O and F)
12TH. TENN.CAV
This graveyard is very old with tombstones all born in the 1700's and died in the 1800's. I need some help. Thanks

[joe king]

Good to know it is available now. These two I found could also be your useful online library for research project: Christianity Today Library, and HighBeam.