Georgia Civil War Pension Records

Georgia State University is undertaking this community service project to provide access to the Georgia Department of Archives and History's collection of microfilmed pension records of Georgia confederate civil war veterans and their widows.

This service is open to the public and should be accessed using the following steps:

1. Click on the "Visitors" button from the DocuWeb home page.
2. In the lefthand frame you will see a list of "collections."  Under "Open Collections" and "Georgia Civil War Pension Records" there is a list of counties for which records have been processed.  Click on the county you are interested in and you will see a scroll box in the right hand frame containing an alphabetized list of individuals from that county's set of records. Highlight an individuals name and click on the blue "View" button.
3. A downloadable PDF print version of each file can be obtained by clicking on the green lettered PRINT/Download option above the viewing window.  Click here to download the free Adobe Acrobat Reader plugin.

Other sites that may be of interest:

The Georgia Geneological Society

The Georgia Historical Society

Georgia Department of Archives and History