Here is some helpful advice from Janice.
Anytime you see that a soldier’s last residence is the US National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, you should get a bit excited because that means you have a source that will give you a cause of death, which is a big part of this project. Go to the Ancestry site: US National Homes for Disabled volunteer Soldiers NHDVS Link (you'll want to bookmark this page), and type in the soldier’s name. When you pull up the record, you can double check his military service to make sure it is the right soldier. Be sure not to confuse the “disabilities when admitted” at the top of the page with the “cause of death” at the the bottom right of the page.
And does everyone know how to double check the service? That his company and regiment if coded in the recruit id number?
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