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TYPES OF RECORDS THAT CAN BE ORDERED WITH THIS FORM

FEDERAL PENSION APPLICATION FILES

Full Pension Application File - Civil War (1860) and Later, ($80 up to 100 pages + $.70 per additional page); Pre Civil War ($55):

Pension application files generally are most useful to those who are doing genealogical research and contain the most complete

information regarding a soldier's military career. We suggest that you first request reproductions of a soldier's pension file. You should

request reproductions of a bounty-land warrant file or a military record only when no pension file exists. If the veteran's service was

during the Revolutionary War, bounty-land warrant applications have been consolidated with pension application papers. You can

obtain both files by requesting the pension file only. Military service records rarely contain family information. Use NATF Form 86 to

obtain reproductions of military service records.

Pension application files, based on Federal (not State or Confederate) service before World War I, usually include an official statement

of the veteran's military service, as well as information of a personal nature. Pension files for the Civil War and later can be very

large and average more pages than pension files for previous wars so the National Archives Trust Fund sets a page limit on

these items. If the file requested exceeds the page limit the researcher will receive the first block of pages along with a quote

for the remaining pages. The customer must return the quote with payment to receive the remainder of the file. Pensions

based on military service for the Confederate States of America were authorized by some Southern States but not by the Federal

Government until 1959. Inquiries about State pensions should be addressed to the State archives or equivalent agency at the capital of

the veteran's State of residence after the war. See the special notes below about Confederate pensions.

Pension Documents Packet ($30): The pension documents package will contain, to the extent that these documents are present in

the file, 8 documents that contain genealogical information about the pension applicant. Not all of these documents will be found in

every file. The package will include any of the following items that are in the file: (1) declaration of pension, (2) declaration of widow's

pension, (3) Adjutant General statements of service, (4) questionnaires completed by applicants (numbered forms), (5) "Pension

Dropped" cards, (6) marriage certificates, (7) death certificates, (8) discharge certificate. We will not provide a count of the remaining

pages; if you wish to obtain a full pension file after reviewing the pension documents packet, you will need to order the complete file. If

the entire pension file is no more than 10 pages, we will mark the order "Complete file provided."

BOUNTY-LAND WARRANT APPLICATION FILES

Bounty-land warrant application files ($30) are based on Federal (not State) service before 1856. Documents in a bounty-land

warrant application file are similar to those in a pension application file. In addition, these files usually give the veteran's age and place

of residence at the time the application was made. For a copy of the surrendered Bounty-Land Warrant, you will need to submit a

request on NATF Form 84, National Archives Order for Copies of Land Entry Files.

SPECIAL NOTES ABOUT CONFEDERATE PENSIONS

The following Southern State Archives have Confederate pension records. For links to State Archives websites and links to online

finding aids please go to the Confederate pension page on our website at or you can write to the addresses below

for more information.

Alabama Department of Archives & History, 624 Washington Avenue, Montgomery, AL 36104

Arkansas History Commission & State Archives, One Capitol Mall, Little Rock, AR 72201

Florida State Archives, R.A. Gray Building, 500 South Bronough Street, Tallahassee, FL 32399-0250

Georgia Department of Archives & History, 5800 Jonesboro Road, Morrow, GA 30260

Kentucky Department for Libraries & Archives, Kentucky State Archives, 300 Coffee Tree Road, Frankfort, KY 40601

Louisiana State Archives, 3851 Essen Lane, Baton Rouge, LA 70809-2137

Mississippi Department of Archives & History, Charlotte Capers Building, 100 South State Street, Jackson, MS 39201

Missouri State Archives, State Information Center, 600 West Main Street, Jefferson City, MO 65101

North Carolina State Archives, 109 East Jones Street, Raleigh, NC 27601

Oklahoma Department of Libraries, State Archives, 200 N.E. 18th Street, Oklahoma City, OK 73105

South Carolina Department of Archives & History, South Carolina History Center, 8301 Parklane Road, Columbia, SC 29223

Tennessee State Library & Archives, 403 Seventh Avenue North, Nashville, TN 37243

Texas State Library & Archives Commission, 1201 Brazos Street, Austin, TX 78711-2927

The Library of Virginia, 800 East Broad Street, Richmond, VA 23219-8000

PRIVACY ACT STATEMENT

Collection of this information is authorized by sections 2108, 2116, and 2307 of Title 44 U.S. Code. Disclosure of the information is voluntary; however, we will be unable to

respond to your request if you do not furnish your name and address and the minimum required information about the records. The information is used by NARA employees to

search for the record; to respond to you; to maintain control over information requests received and answered; and to facilitate preparation of internal statistical reports. If you

provide credit card information, that information is used to bill you for copies.

PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT PUBLIC BURDEN STATEMENT

A Federal agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to a collection of information unless it displays a current valid OMB control number.

The OMB Control No. for this information collection is 3095-0027. Public burden reporting for this collection of information is estimated to be 10 minutes per response. Send

comments regarding the burden estimate or any other aspect of the information collection, including suggestions for reducing this burden, to National Archives and Records

Administration (ISP), 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park MD 20740. DO NOT SEND COMPLETED FORMS TO THIS ADDRESS. SEND COMPLETED FORMS TO THE

ADDRESS INDICATED IN THE FORM INSTRUCTIONS.

NATIONAL ARCHIVES TRUST FUND BOARD

NATF Form 85 (rev. 07-2017)