Web: US, African American Civil War Sailor Index, 1861-1865

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Ancestry.com. Web: US, African American Civil War Sailor Index, 1861-1865 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.

Original data: Soldiers and Sailors Database. Sailors. National Park Service. http://www.nps.gov/civilwar/search-sailors.htm: accessed 13 July 2014.

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