Confederate Research Center, Hillsboro, TX CONFEDERATE RESEARCH CENTER

HAROLD B. SIMPSON HILL COLLEGE HISTORY COMPLEX

P.O. BOX 619

HILLSBORO, TX 76645

254-582-2555

HERE'S WHAT YOU CAN FIND AT THE CONFEDERATE RESEARCH CENTER:

1. Microfilm: INDEX to Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Fought From All Southern States.

2. Microfilm: Texas Confederate Home inmates Listing.

3. Microfilm: M818 Confederate Soldiers Raised Directly by the CSA Government.

4. Microfilm: T-456 Doctors in the Confederacy.

5. Microfilm: M 836 Confederate Battle Casualties Listing.

6. Microfilm: M 1003 INDEX to Confederate Pardons.

7. Microfilm: Prisons: Camp Chase, OH; Johnson's Island, OH; Fort Delaware, DE; Elmira, NY; Camp Douglas, IL; Camp Morton, IN; Rock Island Barrack, IL; and Point Lookout, MD.

8. Microfilm: COMPILED SERVICE RECORDS of Hood's Texas Brigade, 12th, 19th and 21st Texas Cavalry Regiments, various other Texas Units.

9. Microfilm: Texas State Troops, Texas Militia, Frontier Guard, etc. Texas Confederate Military Service Records.

10. Book: FRONTIER DEFENSE OF THE CIVIL WAR, TEXAS RANGERS AND REBELS by David Paul Smith, Texas A&M Press.

11. Capsule Histories For All Southern Regiments. When/Where Organized, Battles, Surrender, Etc. Four to Six Pages. $5 per regiment.

12. Pensions: Book Listing for States of Arkansas, Florida, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas.

13. Microfilm: Missouri Confederate Pensions.

14. Books: OFFICIAL RECORDS OF THE UNION AND CONFEDERATE ARMIES, WAR OF THE REBELLION. (Army and Navy) 159 Volumes. Indexed.

15. Books: MEDICAL AND SURGICAL HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR. Volumes With Index.

16. Books: CONFEDERATE MILITARY HISTORY. Volumes With Index.

17. Books: CONFEDERATE VETERANS MAGAZINE. Volumes With Index.

18. Books: SOUTHERN HISTORICAL SOCIETY PAPERS. Volumes With Index.

19. Books: AN INDEX OF CIVIL WAR DAMAGE CLAIMS FILED BEFORE THE SOUTHERN CLAIMS COMMISSION, 1871-1880. Gary Mills. 22,298 Claims Submitted - - Only 7,092 Approved.

20. Census: Texas 1850 Book Form

Texas 1860 Book Form and Microfilm

Texas 1890 Texas Veteran Census Index Book Form

(Mostly Union With A Few Confederates)

21. Microfilm: Confederate Naval and Marine Personnel.

22. Oklahoma Confederate Home Material.

23. Over 3000 Books, including rare books, on the Confederacy.

24. Vertical Files: Many Subjects

25. Official Histories For Southern (10-25 Pages Each Unit) All Information In Each History Is Taken From the War Of The Rebellion - Official Records. The Project Is Not Complete. Therefore, Limited Units Are Available. $15 per regiment.

26. Microfilm: Compiled Service Records of Confederate General and Staff Officers and Non-Regimental Enlisted Men.
 

WHERE TO FIND THE CONFEDERATE RESEARCH CENTER AND MUSEUM

Hillsboro, Texas is in Hill County and is just south of where Interstate 35E and 35W meet south of Fort Worth and Dallas, Texas. Take I-35 to State Highway 22 at Hillsboro, Texas, go east about 1 mile, and it is on the Hill College Campus.

HOURS OF OPERATION

Open: 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM Weekdays, Except College Holidays

Closed: 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM for lunch

MISSISSIPPI

1. Burial Listing at Biloxi (Beauvoir Cemetery) Mississippi

2. Capsule Histories of Mississippi Units

3. Collection of Mississippi and Mississippians

4. Confederate Army of Induction Records, Meridian, Mississippi 1863

5. Confederate Pension Records Lauderdale County, Mississippi,

3 volumes A - Z

6. Confederate Soldiers Buried at Vicksburg February 15, 1863 - July 4, 1863

7. Deaths of Confederate Soldiers in Confederate Hospitals in

Mississippi

8. Fisher Funeral Home Records Vicksburg, Mississippi 1854 - 1867

9. Fortieth Mississippi Infantry

10. Going to Meet the Yankees - 6th Mississippi Infantry Regiment

11. History of Itawamba County, MS

12. History of Panola County, MS

13. History of Tippah County, MS

14. Journal of Mississippi History, Volumes XIX, January, 1857

15. Itawamba County Settlers Quarterly

16. Marked Graves at Beauvoir Cemetery, Jefferson Davis Shrine,

Biloxi, Mississippi

17. Marriages and Deaths From Mississippi Newspapers 1837 - 1863

18. Military History of Mississippi 1803 - 1898

19. Mississippi Confederates (microfilm)

20. Mississippi Confederate Graves

21. Mississippi Confederate Pension Applications

22. Mississippi Index of Wills 1800 - 1900

23. Mississippi Newspaper Abstracts 1837 - 1863

24. Mississippi Territorial Archives 1798 - 1803

25. Mississippi Valley in the Civil War

26. Official History

27. Publication of the Mississippi Historical Society, 14 volumes

28. Road to the Sea

29. The Woodville Republican January 4, 1840 - October 30, 1847

30. The Woodville Republican Vol. 5 - Jan 1, 1881 - Dec. 22, 1883

31. The Third Mississippi Regiment - CSA

32. The Woodville Republican June 22, 1878 thru December 25, 1880

33. Third Mississippi fiction

34. Warren County Went to War

35. Woodville Republican December 18, 1823 thru December 17, 1839

36. Woodville Republican Mississippi Oldest Existing Newspaper

37. Miscellaneous articles pertaining to Mississippi

SOUTH CAROLINA

1. A Carolinian Goes to War

2. A Guideline to the Manuscript Collection of the South Carolina Library, University of SC

3. A History of Marion County, South Carolina

4. A Tale of Mid Cities My Journey From Yesterday for South Carolina

5. Broken Fortunes

6. Capsule Histories of South Carolina Units

7. Crisis of Fear Secession in SC

8. History of 4th Regiment South Carolina

9. History of a SC Brigade

10. Lancaster District South Carolina 1850 Census

11. Official Histories of South Carolina Units

12. Prelude to Civil War

13. Roll of the Dead South Carolina Troops Confederate States Service

14. SC - Kershaw's Brigade 2nd, 3rd, 8th, 15th and 20th

15. South Carolina Confederate Soldier (microfilm)

16. South Carolina Goes to War

17. South Carolina Hist. Quarterly (3 volumes)

18. South Carolina Post Offices and Post Masters 1860 - 1865

19. The Fort Worth's Genealogical Society's 1995 Spring Workshop on South Carolina

20. Other miscellaneous articles

TENNESSEE

1. 1890 Civil War Veterans Census

2. 1980 Cemetery Census (Hardin County)

3. Analysis of 48th Tennessee Infantry

4. Army of Heartbreak (2 volumes)

5. Army of Tennessee

6. Battle Flags of Tennessee (flag section)

7. Biographical Sketches and Picture of Company B

8. Capsule Histories of Tennessee Units

9. Civil War Tennessee - Battles and Leaders

10. "Co. Hytch" - lst Tennessee Regiment

11. Confederate Action in Franklin County, TN

12. Confederate Action in Smith County, TN

13. Confederate Chronicles of Tennessee (2 volumes)

14. Confederate Veteran Magazine Tennessee History Quarterly Vol. XXXI, No.1

15. From Giles County, Tennessee

16. Giles County Lineage Book

17. Guide to County Records and Genealogical Resources in Tennessee

18. Heroes of Tennessee (Tenn. Series Vol. I)

19. History and Biography Sketches of the 46th Tennessee Infantry C.S.A. Henry County, Tennessee

20. History of the 2nd Tenn. Confederate Cavalry (Hancock's Diary)

21. Hood's Tennessee Campaign

22. Index of Tennessee Confederate Pension Applications

23. Index to Questionnaires of Civil War Veterans

24. Index To: History of the Henry County Commands Which Served the Confederate States Army

25. Last Resting Place Tullahoma's Confederate Cemetery

26. Marriages of Williamson County (1804 - 1850)

27. Master of Military Art and Science

28. Membership Roster Tennessee, Division SCV

29. Middle Tennessee Genealogy, Vol. V, No. I (Summer 1991)

30. Military Government of Tennessee

31. Obituaries and Marriage Notices From the Tennessee Baptist; 1844 - 1862

32. Questionnaire Books Index

33. Records and Resources in Tennessee

34. Robert Wilson 1750 - 1826 of Blount County, Tennessee

35. SVC Camp 72 1993 N. L.

36. Tall Tales and True Stories of Giles Countians by Margaret Butler

37. Tennesseans in the Civil War (2 volumes)

38. Tennesseans in the War of 1812

39. Tennessee Civil War Veterans Questionnaires (Vols. 1 - 5)

40. Tennessee Confederates Index Records

41. Tennessee Genealogical Records

42. Tennessee Historical Quarterly (6 volumes)

43. Tennessee in the Civil War Part 1 - 2

44. Tennessee Veterans and Widow Pension Book

45. Tennessee Wills and Administrations (1779 - 1861)

46. Tennessee's War

47. The Loyal Mountaineers of Tennessee

48. The Tennesseans

49. The Tennessee Brigade

50. The Tennessee Locator

51. Tennessee Civil War Veteran Questionnaires (5 volumes with index)

52. Tombstone Inscriptions and Manuscripts

53. Williamson County Historical Society

54. Williamson County, Tennessee Deed Abstracts 1799 - 1811 Vol. A, No.1, Vol. A - 2 and Vol. B

52. Other miscellaneous articles
 

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