Doddridge County -
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Civil War Research

CWSS (Civil War Soldiers and Sailors: http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/index.html ) on line, as well as the National Archives are very efficient, but it can get expensive if you have to order several records.

Detailed military records are fascinating but are not that helpful for genealogy; they give no family information, just physical description, muster dates, and promotions.

Pension records, however, give the name of the spouse, and sometimes other marriage info, as well as the unit, any wounds and the circumstances surrounding them, statements from others in the same unit, etc.  Pension applications have much more information if one was submitted.

REMEMBER: any application (for Union or Confederate pensions) would be available only through the state of residence at the time any application was made.

There is a bare minimum of information at the national parks,  http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/parks.htm (information would normally be the same as in the above references)  with only a listing for the soldiers buried at that site in some.
 

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