"Often confused with the 1890 census, and more often overlooked or misjudged as useless, are nearly 75,000 special 1890 schedules enumerating Union veterans and widows of Union veterans.
The U.S. Pension Office requested this special enumeration to help Union veterans locate comrades to testify in pension claims and to determine the number of survivors and widows for pension legislation. (Some congressmen also thought it scientifically useful to know the effect of various types of military service upon veterans' longevity.) To assist in the enumeration, the Pension Office prepared a list of veterans' names and addresses from their files and from available military records held by the U.S. War Department.
Nearly all of the schedules for the states of Alabama through Kansas and approximately half of those for Kentucky appear to have been destroyed before transfer of the remaining schedules to the National Archives in 1943. Fragments for some of these states were accessioned by the National Archives as bundle 198."
https://www.census.gov/history/www/genealogy/decennial_census_records/1890_veterans_census.html
I found this link where you can run a search on the Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War :
https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1877095
I ran a search on my second Great-grandfather, Hiram Collins, and 'bingo' I found this record:
Here are links to an informative article in 3 parts from the National Archives:
The Fate of the 1890 Population Census, Part 1
The Fate of the 1890 Population Census, Part 2
The Fate of the 1890 Population Census, Part 3
I hope this article might be of help to any researcher who descends from a Union Civil War Veteran and their widow.
Hat Tip to Dianne Hart
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