Pierres tombales fournies pour les anciens combattants de la Guerre de Sécession décédés, États-Unis, 1861 à 1904

U.S., Headstones Provided for Deceased Union Civil War Veterans, 1861-1904

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Ancestry.com. Pierres tombales fournies pour les anciens combattants de la Guerre de Sécession décédés, États-Unis, 1861 à 1904 [base de données en ligne]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007.
Données originales : Card Records of Headstones Provided for Deceased Union Civil War Veterans, ca. 1879-ca. 1903; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M1845, 22 rolls); Records of the Office of the Quartermaster General, Record Group 92; National Archives, Washington, D.C.

 Pierres tombales fournies pour les anciens combattants de la Guerre de Sécession décédés, États-Unis, 1861 à 1904

Cette base de données contient plus de 166 000 contrats pour les pierres tombales des anciens combattants de l’Union fournies par le gouvernement. Certains vétérans de la Guerre de 1812 sont également inclus. La majorité des soldats dans cette base de données sont morts entre 1861 et 1903, mais les pierres tombales ont été placées entre 1879 et 1903. Les fiches contiennent notamment le nom, le grade, la compagnie, le régiment, le lieu d’enterrement, le numéro de la tombe, la date du décès, le nom du fournisseur de la pierre tombale et la date du contrat.

On March 3, 1873, Congress passed an act that allowed for all honorably discharged veterans of the Civil War to be buried in national military cemeteries. In February of 1879 Congress passed another act which stated that the government would erect the same gravestones for Union soldiers buried in private cemeteries as those buried in national cemeteries.

This database contains over 166,000 cards of headstone contracts provided by the government for deceased Union veterans. A few veterans of the War of 1812 are also included. Most soldiers included in this database died between ca. 1861 and ca. 1903, but the gravestones were erected between ca. 1879 and ca. 1903. The majority of the burials were in private cemeteries. These cemeteries were most likely located in the county of the soldier’s residence.

Cards are arranged alphabetically by surname, then given name. Cards may include the following information for each soldier:

  • Name

  • Rank, company, and regiment

  • Burial place (cemetery name as well as town, county, and state in which it’s located)

  • Grave number, if applicable

  • Death date

  • Name of contractor that supplied the headstone

  • Date of contract in which the headstone was provided

Some of the above information may only be available by viewing the card image.

Some of the above information was taken from the Publication Details of Card Records of Headstones Provided for Deceased Union Civil War Veterans, ca. 1879-ca. 1903; National Archives Microfilm Publication M1845; National Archives, Washington, D.C., 1996.