Sticker for US Navy during the Civil War

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How should the US Civil War sticker be used for someone who served in the US Navy? Does the name of their ship go in the "Unit" parameter?
WikiTree profile: Samuel Orme
in WikiTree Help by Amy Johnson G2G6 Mach 8 (85.7k points)

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No. The name of ship is optional. If used it goes on the Regiment line.

unit- Union Navy
by Norman Jones G2G6 Pilot (202k points)
selected by Amy Johnson
Do you have an example? I'm trying to add the sticker to a US Navy veteran of the Civil War era and I'm a bit confused!
I will look for one that I have done.  Sort of hard to find because I have done a lot of Civil War profiles.

Maybe if you tell me the ID of the one you are working on, I can take a look at it.

On the unit= line  you can put "Union Navy". That will put the sailor in the Union Navy category.  If you know the ship, you can list him in the ship's category.  If the ship does not have a category listed, you can put the ship on the regiment name= line. 

Here is the category for Union Navy, this also lists the subcategories for some ships. Category: Union Navy, United States Civil War

I worked on the Civil War box for Adelbert Mell Lowell, [[Lowell-1468]] . I also added the ship categories for those ships already with categories. I listed all his ships on the regiment name= line.  I got the ship categories from the link above.

Also, the Civil War box had UN navy. I would think that creates an error.  The unit= line should be Union Navy (or it could have any one of the ship categories).

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