If you are in the Kaufman County area doing research on your Civil War ancestors, there are three major Civil War Museums and Archives you will want to check out - all within an hour's drive of Kaufman.

The Pearce Collection at Navarro College in Corsicana
http://www.navarrocollege.edu/library/civilwar/index.htm

The Harold B. Simpson History Center at Hill College in Hillsboro
http://www.hillcollege.edu/museum/museum.html

The Civil War Museum of Texas
http://www.texascivilwarmuseum.com/

• John K. Love Receipt
• Excerpts from "Reminiscences of the Boys in Gray, 1861 - 1865"
• Confederate Treasury Warrants for Kaufman County
• Substitution Agreement for the Confederacy
• Confederate Military Organization
• Biographies of Civil War Veterans of Kaufman County
• The Daugherty Boys in Uniform
• Rufus Asbury Stone - The Burial of a Kaufman County Confederate Soldier
• Photo of tombstone of Benjamin Franklin Taylor, a CSA soldier who was an Alabama State Legislator in 1872
• Daniel Byrnes, of Terrell, recalls seeing Abraham Lincoln Shot
• Peter KEYES Obituary and Newspaper Article -- ex-slave and Confederate
• 1890 Union Veterans' Census
• The 1910 census -- shows vets of the Civil War (Union / Confederate Army / Navy)
• Civil War Letters
• Civil War Newspaper Articles (from the Civil War Era)
• Civil War Veteran Obituaries
• Civil War Pensions
• Women in the Civil War
• Photographs of Civil War Veterans of Kaufman County
• More Photos and Data on Kaufman County Civil War Veterans
• Civil War Soldiers Known to be Buried in Kaufman County Texas
• 1956 newspaper article about George G. Porter, Civil War Veteran, first burial in Kemp Cemetery
• Men Who Resided in Kaufman County at the start of the Civil War, but Who Served in the Union Army
• Confederate Soldiers Who Served From Kaufman & Rockwall Counties Buried Outside Kaufman / Rockwall Area
• Civil War Soldiers from Kaufman County Who Died in the Civil War
• Muster Rolls of the 13th Brigade of Militia from Kaufman County
• Daughters of the Confederacy
  • United Daughters of Confederacy Float in the Knights of Pythias Picnic Parade in Kaufman, 1906
• The Civil War Soldiers Grave Project
  • The Final Muster (2003)
• Civil War Units (Rosters)
  • Civil War Rosters (low-graphics version)
• Flags of the Confederacy
• Southern Cross of Honor

Links to Sites with Civil War Information

• Civil War Soldiers and Sailers System
• The Civil War -- film by Ken Burns on PBS