{"id":753,"date":"2009-11-24T10:00:38","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T15:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/blog\/?p=753"},"modified":"2010-06-16T10:19:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T15:19:00","slug":"soldiers-and-sailors-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2009\/11\/24\/soldiers-and-sailors-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Soldiers and Sailors System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-754\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2009\/11\/sailors-and-soliders-NPS.bmp\" alt=\"sailors and soliders-NPS\" \/>The National Park Service boasts an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.civilwar.nps.gov\/cwss\/\" target=\"_blank\">intricate online archive<\/a> containing regimental information on soldiers and sailors on both sides of the Civil War. Over 6.3 million servicemen can be looked up by name, regiment, or battle via an easy-to-use search engine. One can also look up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.civilwar.nps.gov\/cwss\/info.htm\" target=\"_blank\">by state<\/a> the total amount of soldiers that have been archived.\u00a0 The site also links to academic projects such as Howard University&#8217;s\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.civilwar.nps.gov\/cwss\/sailors_index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Black Sailors Research Project<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Along with the individual soldiers, the online archive includes over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.civilwar.nps.gov\/cwss\/regiments.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">4,000 Union and Confederate regiments<\/a> with links to 364 principal battles that took place during the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>This site is one of the best online resources for anyone looking to find information on a specific soldier or sailor that took part in the Civil War. In combination with the millions of documents pertaining to their regiments and actions,\u00a0 this site deserves a look regardless of the topic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Park Service boasts an intricate online archive containing regimental information on soldiers and sailors on both sides of the Civil War. Over 6.3 million servicemen can be looked up by name, regiment, or battle via an easy-to-use search engine. One can also look up by state the total amount of soldiers that have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,46],"tags":[161],"class_list":["post-753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war-1861-1865","category-lists","tag-battles-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1921,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions\/1921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}