Genealogy Resources: Military Resources

Entries are listed in alphabetical order under the principal's name. The entry includes the full name of the principal and immediately thereafter is the collection's chronological range.

Categorized into two large categories of "Pre-World War 1 and "World War 1 and Later Army Records

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.

This site provides information about accessing military records of discharged and deceased military personnel.

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