LISTS OF CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS

 

The National Park Service has published names of soldiers of the Civil War, both Union and Confederate, at http://www.civilwar.nps.gov/cwss/. This web site is an outstanding resource for anyone interested in researching ancestors involved in the Civil War. 

 

Joseph Lee Auten (see DNA Project, Pedigree-John-1675), a descendant of Folkert Auten-1760 who moved from New Jersey to North Carolina, became interested in researching families who split over the Civil War with some becoming soldiers in the Union forces and some with the Confederacy. His goal is to write their story. We are working with him to compile and identify as comprehensive lists as possible of ATEN, AUTEN, ATON and AUTON men who served in the Civil War and place them here.

 

Joe compiled the names from The National Park Service site shown above. Files of Mamie McKinney, Karen Hillman and Dorothy Armitage contained a few more. The lists are still probably not absolutely complete, and although identification of their families has been done carefully using Mamie’s FTM files, censuses and information provided by descendants, it is probably not perfect. There appear to be some duplications in the NPS lists, too. If anyone who sees this has knowledge of another soldier or believes an ID is incorrect, will you please write and tell us?  Known family veterans that were not found in the NPS lists but who served in the Civil War have been inserted in these files using ** to indicate their names and data in place of the usual Number at the beginning of the line.

 

Periodically these files will be revised and noted in NEW ADDITIONS.