Trying to find two sailors in the US Navy during the Civil War. William Frye was from Machiasport, ME, and was born in about 1838. He supposedly died during the war, although some of the Ancestry.com family tree data shows him as having died at Gettysburg, which makes very little sense. Ancestry.com shows that he enlisted in Boston in 1861.
Charles H Wickens was born in 1842, and died in 1917. Ancestry.com has an almost unreadable pension card for him that was apparently filed after he died. He was actually a Canadian citizen who also went to Boston to enlist, or that's what the family story says. Charles is the only direct ancestor of mine that I am aware of who was in the Civil War; William Frye is a relative of mine from another branch of the family.
It is my understanding that Naval records are much harder to fund than Army records. So how would I find these?
Charles H Wickens was born in 1842, and died in 1917. Ancestry.com has an almost unreadable pension card for him that was apparently filed after he died. He was actually a Canadian citizen who also went to Boston to enlist, or that's what the family story says. Charles is the only direct ancestor of mine that I am aware of who was in the Civil War; William Frye is a relative of mine from another branch of the family.
It is my understanding that Naval records are much harder to fund than Army records. So how would I find these?