Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System

• Title	Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System
  Short Title	Military - Civil War, Soldiers & Sailors System
  Author	National Park Service
  Publisher	(http://www.civilwar.nps.gov/cwss/index.html
  Repository	Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System
  Source ID	S405

  
  

• Notes

  «i»Statement of purpose from the CWSS website: "The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System is a computerized database containing very basic facts about servicemen who served on both sides during the Civil War. The initial focus of the CWSS is the Names Index Project, a project to enter names and other basic information from 6.3 million soldier records in the National Archives. The facts about the soldiers were entered from records that are indexed to many millions of other documents about Union and Confederate Civil War soldiers maintained by the National Archives and Records Administration.«/i»