Wabaunsee County
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Revolutionary War - 1775
to 1784
290,000 men participated in the American Revolutionary War. There were
4,435 deaths in service. Last Veteran: Daniel F. Bakeman, died 4/5/1869,
age 109.
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Valley Forge
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War of 1812 - 1812 to
1815
287,000 men participated in the War of 1812. There were 6,765 deaths in
service. Last Veteran: Hiram Cronk, died 5/13/05, age 105.
Indian Wars & French and Indian War
106,000 men participated in the Indian Wars. There were 1,000 deaths in
service. Last Veteran: Fredrak Fraske, died 6/18/73, age 101.
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Native Americans Indian Wars This web site is a representative survey of conflicts between Native Americans and Europeans over three centuries. |
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Native Americans Indian Wars This web site is a representative survey of conflicts between Native Americans and Europeans over three centuries. |
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A Brief History of The French & Indian War with Maps. |
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Muster Roll of the field and Staff of a Regiment of Cherokees Commanded by Colo. Gideon Morgan in the division Commanded by Major General Cocke & Jackson in the Service of the United States against the Hostile Creeks. |
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Black Hawk War, 1832 |
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Black Hawk War, Utah, 1856 - 1857 |
REPUBLIC of TEXAS - 1835 - 1845
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Index to
MILITARY ROLLS
and Name Index to
Military Bounty and Donation Land Grants of Texas |
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Pensions - Comptroller's records includes claims for payment, reimbursement, or restitution submitted by citizens to the Republic of Texas government from 1835 through 1846. It also includes records relating to Republic pensions and claims against the Republic submitted as public debt claims after 1846.
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Rosters,
Companies, and Participants |
Texas Army Roster (hosted at Early Texas History)
Civil War - 1861 to 1865
Union participants were 2,213,000 in the Civil War. There were 364,000
Union deaths in service. Last Union Veteran: Albert Woolson, died
8/2/56, age 109. Confederate participants were 1,000,000*. There were
133,821* Confederate deaths in service. Last Confederate Veteran:
Disputed.*
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Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War |
National Graves Registration Database - Online Database free to public which contains the final resting place of Civil War Veterans. The database is ongoing and updated frequently with new information.
Misc. Civil War sites containing online and/or searchable databases
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Civil War Records (http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/soldiers.htm) |
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Ancestry.com Civil War Collection (requires payment) includes pension & service records indexes, plus some state rosters |
Civil War Muster Rolls (Service Records) over 5.3 million (requires payment)
Civil War Pension Index - Union nearly 2.5 million (requires payment)
1890 Civil War Veterans & Widows Census Schedules mostly Union (requires
payment) includes online digitized census images
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The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of
the Union and Confederate Armies - 60 volumes - (scanned) Series I:
Contains the formal reports, both Union and Confederate. Series II:
Contains the correspondence, orders, reports, and returns, Union and
Confederate, relating to prisoners of war, and (so far as the military
authorities were concerned) to State or political prisoners. |
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Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion (1894 - 1922) Series I, vols. 1-27; Series II, vols 1-3 (1894 - 1922). |
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Medal of Honor Recipients U. S. Civil War Index - Presented here
are Medal of Honor recipients who earned their awards in the American
Civil War. |
Mexican War - 1846-1848
115,493 men participated in the Mexican War. There were 1,177 deaths in
service.
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The US GenWeb Archives Pension Project - provides actual transcriptions of Pension related materials . Very little information on Kansas, but check back often for additions. |
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Descendants of Mexican War Veterans - various information on the war. Includes documents and battle reports. Site has search engine. |
Spanish-American War 1898 to 1902
392,000 participated in the Spanish-American War. There were 11,000
deaths in service. Last Veteran: Nathan E. Cook, died 9/10/92, age 106
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Theodore Roosevelt - 18581919, Muster Out Rolls (hosted at Bartleby.com) |
World War I 1917 to 1918
4,743,826 participated in WWI. There were 116,708 deaths in service.
There were 3,350 POW/MIA.
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National Registry - The World War II Memorial honors the 16 million who served in the armed forces of the U.S., the more than 400,000 who died, and all who supported the war effort from home. |
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Medal of Honor Recipients World War I - Presented here are Medal of Honor recipients who earned their awards in WWI. |
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Biographies of World War I (hosted at The World War I Document Archive) |
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The Doughboy Center (hosted by The Great War Society) |
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Stars and Stripes Collection (hosted at American Memory) |
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The Aces of WW1 (hosted at An Illustrated History of WW1) |
World War II 1940 to 1947
16,353,659 participated in WWII. There were 407,316 deaths in service.
There were 78,777 POW/MIA.
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Medal of Honor Recipients World War II - Presented here are Medal of Honor recipients who earned their awards in World War II. |
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Kansas World War II Casualties Army and Air Force |
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U.S. Merchant Marine Casualties during World War II (hosted at USMM.org) |
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Creek Indians In World War II (hosted at Anne Gometz's Requisite Homepage) |
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American Battle Monuments Commission (hosted at American Battle Monuments Commission) |
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Prisoners of War
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Search WWII
Electronic Records in the Access to Archival Databases (AAD) |
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Search
WWII Documents Online through the Archival Research Catalog (ARC) |
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World War II Casualty Lists |
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World War II POWs held in German Camps (hosted at Veteran And Military World War Websites) |
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World War II POWs held in Japanese Camps (hosted at
Veteran And Military World War Websites) |
Korean War 1950 to 1955
5,764,143 participated in Korean War. There were 33,651 deaths in
service. There were 7,190 POWs [4,428 repatriated]; 8177 MIAs
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Casualties from the Korean War (1951-1957) |
Vietnam War 1964 to 1975
8,744,000 participated in Vietnam War. There were 58,168 deaths in
service. There were 2,459 POW/MIAs.
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Casualties from Vietnam Conflict (1956-)
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Persian
Gulf War Era 1990 to To Be Decided
467,539 participated in the first Persian Gulf War I and there were 268
deaths in service. There were 2 Missing, Presumed Dead and 1 MIA. There
were 23 POWs and all were returned.
The Gulf
War KIA/MIA List - This is a Collective effort between Douglas Havemann - The Creator/Webmaster of The Persian Gulf War Veterans
Memorial and Scott O'Hara - who wrote the page titled: "The Gulf War
KIA - MIA List" . All states are included.
POW/MIA's of the Persian Gulf War 1991 - Current Status 1991 Persian Gulf POW/MIAs As of 9/2/2000
Miscellaneous Military & War Information
WWII/Korean/Cold War remains returned this is a list of Americans Identified since 1989 who were MIA during WWII, KOREA, COLD WAR
Remains Returned which include Vietnam Conflict, Mayaguez, Glomar Java Seam, and Bay of Pigs.
Statistical Sources:
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, July 1998
* Authoritative statistics for Confederate Forces are not available. An
estimated 28,000 Confederate soldiers died in Union prisons. In the VA
press release, the last Confederate veteran is listed as John Salling.
But it is disputed.
http://www.omalco.com/salling.htm
Note: Figures on the number of deaths in service include all of those
Killed in Action, by natural causes, accidents etc.
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