Alabama, Confederate Pension Applications, ca. 1880-1930’s is a free collection at FamilySearch of with a searchable name index linked to images of Confederate Pension Applications.

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What Can I Learn from Pension Records?

These records may contain: 

• Name of spouse
• Rank of soldier
• Where enlisted
• Branch of service

How Can Pension Records Help Me Find Other Records?

With information from these records you may be able to:

• Use the information found in the pension applications to find other records such as birth, christening, marriage, census, land and death records
• Use the information to find additional family members
• Search for the service record for the individual who served in the military