1840 Census of Pensioners for Revolutionary or Military Services (Adobe Reader required)
Additional Military Resources
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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1840 Census of Pensioners for Revolutionary or Military Services (Adobe Reader required) |
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The Friends of Fort Laurens - Ohio's only American Revolutionary War outpost, Fort Laurens. Contains a listing of men who either marched to the Fort Laurens site with General McIntosh on November 1778, and/or most likely helped construct the Fort, actually served in defense of the Fort, and/or they were on one of the attempted re-supply missions to Fort Laurens from Fort Pitt. |
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Ohio Revolutionary War Pensions Project Coordinator - actual transcriptions of Pension related materials submitted by individuals. |
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Revolutionary War Pensioners Living in the State of Ohio in 1818-1819 - Extracted by Billy Joe Baker This is a government listing of Pensioners living in the State of Ohio in 1818-1819. |
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Daughters of the American Revolution Lineage Books (152 Vols.) – Ancestry.com database. Original data from: National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution. Lineage Books of the Charter Members of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, - Vol. I-CLII (152). (payment required). |
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Sons of the American Revolution - Ohio Society
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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.
Ohio Historical Society Online Databases
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Roster of Ohio Soldiers in the War of 1812 – Searchable database with full text of the roster from the Adjutant General records. Ohio furnished 1,759 Officers and 24,521 enlisted men for this war. |
Indian Wars & French and Indian War
(also known as
the "Seven Years 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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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 |
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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
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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.*
Index to [Ohio] Prisoners at Andersonville, Georgia, and Salisbury, North Carolina Prisons, 1864-1865 - Browse the Series 87 index for prisoner name, company, regiment, date imprisoned, and prison. Correspondence to the Governor and Adjutant General, 1861-1866 - Browse through abstracts of approximately 12,800 letters, the contents of Volumes 1A-35, and Volumes 37-43 of Series 147. Civil War Guide Project, Guide to Primary Resource Collections at OHS - Browse the citations to collections of primary source materials with connections to the Civil War.
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Sons of Union Veterans
of the Civil War
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Ancestry.com
Civil War Collection (requires payment) includes pension &
service records indexes, plus some state rosters
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Misc. Civil War sites containing online and/or searchable databases |
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Ohio in the Civil War – Website maintained by Larry Stevens gives history on the Regiments organized in Ohio. Also includes histories on Prisons, photos, bibliographies and miscellaneous items. This is not a Ohio Roster Database - This is a database of historical information. |
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Civil War Burials Database Project – Civil War Center website (USCWC) |
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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. |
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Civil War Pension - Alfred B. EWING |
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Civil War Battle Summaries for Ohio and Kentucky (our southern neighbor) |
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American Civil War: OH: Muskingum Co: Company F, 122d Ohio Volunteer Infantry from Rootsweb |
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OH: 26th Regiment Ohio Infantry, American Civil War from Rootsweb |
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Union Regimental Rosters - Ohio and Regimental History from the Civil War Archive |
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Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion (transcribed). |
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 Ohio, 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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Ohio Soldiers in the War with Spain, 1898-99 - "The Official Roster of Ohio Soldiers in the War with Spain, 1898-99" was compiled under the direction of Frank B. Willis, Governor, Charles Q. Hildebrant, Secretary of State, and Benson W. Hough, Adjutant General of Ohio and published under the authority of the General Assembly in 1916. It is the official record of the Ohio regiments in the Spanish-American War. (requires payment) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ohio Spanish-American War Pension Applications – Part of the USGenWeb Archives Pension Project. Very little information, but check back often for updates. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Theodore Roosevelt - 1858–1919, Muster Out Rolls (hosted at Bartleby.com)
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1st Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, Troop B |
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1st Ohio Volunteer Infantry |
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1st Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, Troop B |
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1st Ohio Volunteer Infantry |
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Surname Roster of the 2nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Company F (hosted at Spanish American War Centenial Web Site) |
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4th Ohio Volunteer Infantry |
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6th Ohio Volunteer Infantry |
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8th Ohio Volunteer Infantry |
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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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World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 - Ancestry.com database. National Archives and Records Administration. World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918. M1509, 4,277 rolls. Washington, D.C. (requires payment) |
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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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Ohio Military Men, 1917-18 - This database is a collection of 263,000 military records for men who served in the war from Ohio. Originally compiled in 1926, it provides the names for men who served in the army, navy, and marines. In addition to providing the individual's name, it reveals city of residence, unit of service, birth date or age, and other helpful facts. It also contains the location and date of enlistment and discharge information. (requires payment) |
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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) |
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The Unreturning Brave - Clermont County |
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.
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
Search the Korean War Casualty List
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.
Persian Gulf War Era 1990 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.
of Batavia, OH
& his family in your prayers.
Miscellaneous War Information
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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