This research section is provided for your ongoing research into your families.  From time to time, we get fellow researchers who have obtained documents from microfilm, or obtain books that they are able to look up things for us. Those people are added as they come in. 

If you obtain records that you would like to voluntarily donate to the site or if you own Marshall County research books and would like to volunteer to look up for researchers, contact the site coordinator. 

Marshall County Court-Clerk
207 Marshall County Courthouse
Lewisburg, TN 37901
931-359-1072

Marshall County Registrar of Deeds
1103 Courthouse Annex
Lewisburg, TN 37901
931-359-4933

Marshall County Memorial Library
310 Farmington Road
Lewisburg, TN 37091
931-359-3335
The library has a History/genealogy room.

Marshall County Historical Society
PO Box 1352
Lewisburg, TN 37901-0352

Family History Centers/Libraries

There are all kind of different records holdings that you may be able to get a hold of for Marshall Co.

Tennessee State Library and Archives

Family Search 

Deciphering Handwriting

World War II Memorial

Easy sources

• Oral family history: ask parents, aunts and uncles, grandparents
• His tombstone: many list the state and unit numbers
• If he ever lived in Nebraska or Colorado, check GAR and census resources available from the Denver Public Library [Colorado GAR Members — Nebraska GAR & 1890 Census]
• If he lived in Oklahoma, check records at the Electric Cemetery — such as
• Rhode Island has a list compiled from enlistment papers in that state. See Rhode Island State Archives
• Tennesseans in the Civil War – Part I and II by the Centennial Civil War Commission of TN. supply regimental history including commanding officers of both Federal and Confederate TN Units; rosters with rank and unit; narrow a search down by checking groups which were formed or mustered in their counties or area of research. (Thanks to Mark Lowe’s recommendation of this reference)
• The Confederate Dead Database.
• Wisconsin Veterans Museum
• The Roster of Confederate Soldiers 1861-1865 by Janet B. Hewett, Broadfoot Publishing Co, Wilmington, NC (1996).

If you know his county of residence when he enlisted:

• Check the units which were formed in that area.
  Many units consisted of groups of neighbors. Lists of these units can often be found in a county history or through a local historical or genealogical society.

If you know his state of residence when he enlisted:

• For most states, some sort of index exists which lists the soldiers in each unit from that state–often published in northern states by the state’s Adjutant General’s Office . You can also try the Index to the Compiled Service Records of Union Soldiers, microfilmed records at the National Archives and available through some research libraries.

If you don’t know his residence when he enlisted:

• Using the 1860 Federal Census records, you may be able to find where he lived in 1860. Most of these records have an index to the head of the households, which could be the soldier or the soldier’s father.
• If he served in the Confederate army, you may find him in the Consolidated Index to Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, microfilmed records at the National Archives and available through some research libraries.

Pensions

Pension applications resulting from Civil War service often contain family information and can be useful for genealogists.

Many soldiers, widows, and children received pensions from the government following the war. For soldiers who served the Union, the pensions were paid by the U.S. Government. For soldiers who served the Confederacy, pensions were paid by some of the Confederate states.