Civil War Bluejackets

MORE SHEETS ARE ON THE WAY! Thanks everyone for all your work so far! We are currently working on the next batch of Sheets for processing, which should be up in the coming of days!

Thanks for signing on to Civil War Bluejackets! We are working our way through American Civil War Ship's Muster Rolls to uncover the lives of ordinary sailors in the Civil War, uploading new content regularly as we move through the vessels systematically by letter from A to Z.

A major research aim of the project is to recover the lives of African Americans, tens of thousands of whom served in the wartime Navy. The muster sheets can sometimes refer to these men in offensive and outdated terms. For more information, please see the Content Note at the bottom of our Research Page.