Jim Martin
Unfiled Papers and Slips
Thu Sep 21 13:29:12 2000



This is the official description of these files from the NARA. I've sent an email asking if these are viewable other than in Washington. Probably not!

Unfiled Papers and Slips Belonging in Confederate Compiled Service Records.
M347. 442 rolls. 16mm. DP.

This microfilm publication reproduces an extensive series of papers that the War Department accumulated to interfile with the regular series of compiled service records of Confederate soldiers, but never interfiled. The records are arranged alphabetically by surname and there are cross-references for names that appear in the records under more than one spelling. Often names that sound alike are grouped together. It may be necessary, therefore, to search for a name under the various ways in which it could have been entered.

It also appears that there are Union Prison records also very extensive which are not a part of the Compiled Service Records.

It's hard to find the above microforms in their normal lists of files, almost as if they don't want you to ask.