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California Civil War Rosters

“Records of California Men in the War of the Rebellion, 1861 to 1867”
by Brig.-Gen. Richard H. Orton, pub. 1890

 
Civil War re-enactment photos, grave markers, newspaper clippings, military records, biographies, documents, etc. can be found in the following records.
 
Lassen County
Los Angeles County
Mendocino County
Monterey County
Monterey County database of burials in Monterey County
Monterey County database of obits, biographies, service records, etc.
Monterey County newspaper articles 1882-1927
San Diego County
Sonoma County specific to the Rural Cemetery in Santa Rosa
 
You may be interested in a page I have for Nelson Dewey Ashford. This page has over 120 photographed military items from WWI.
  
  
Tombstone photos can also be found here in the various counties.
http://calarchives4u.com/cemeteries/cem-index.htm 

 

Tidbits - those that served in the Civil War but not entirely connected to California; Remembrance photos; Re-enactment photos

 

Sons of the Union Veterans of the Civil War (SUVCW) is dedicated to registering all Union Civil War soldier's graves.

Department of Veterans Affairs, Nationwide Gravesite Locator

The Friends of Civil War Alcatraz has been organized to operate exclusively for charitable and educational purposes, including but not limited to . . .