The National Archives Video Channel on YouTube offers a variety of programs including staff presentations on basic and advanced topics in genealogy. Claire Prechtel-Kluskens’s session about government records related to artificial limbs includes the recorded program, a slide presentation, and two handouts. Here are the links:
Genealogy: Using Records of Artificial Limbs for Union Civil War Veterans, 1861-1927 (2015 May 14)
Handout 1: “Did your Union Civil War ancestor have an artificial limb?” by Claire Prechtel-Kluskens was published in NGS Magazine, (January – March 2014), pp. 41-45.
Handout 2: Research Guide to Records of Artificial Limbs Provided to Civil War and Later Veterans, 1861-1927
1st U.S. Colored Cavalry 
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