Online Searchable Military Records & Databases - USA

Black Hawk War

• Database of Illinois Black Hawk War Veterans

Civil War

• Online Civil War Records, Indexes and Databases

Korean War

• Korean War Casualties, 1950-1957 (at Ancestry/requires payment) about 143,000 listings; includes deaths and non-fatal casualties (wounded)

• Lists of American Casualties from the Korean & Vietnam Wars
  State-level lists of casualties from the Korean conflict (1951-1957) and from the Vietnam conflict (1956-1998) from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).

Mexican War

• United States Mexican War Index and Service Records, 1846-1848 at FamilySearch
  for Arkansas, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas and the Mormon Battalion; also includes a Mexican War Service Record Index (from national archives microfilm publication M616)

• Connecticut Men Who Served in the Regular Army - Mexican War
• Illinois Mexican War Veterans
• Indiana Mexican War Soldiers
• Pennsylvania Soldiers in the War with Mexico, 1846-1847
• Texas: Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma Casualty List
• Virginia Mexican War Soldiers

Revolutionary War

• U.S. Compiled Revolutionary War Military Service Records 1775-1783 at Ancestry/requires payment (from National Archives Microfilm Publications M880 and M881)
• Daughters of the American Revolution Lineage Books (152 Vols.) (at Ancestry/requires payment)

• Connecticut Men in the Revolutionary War 1775-1783 (at Ancestry/requires payment)
• Kentucky Revolutionary War Warrants Database (Before June 1, 1792, Kentucky was a part of Virginia)
• Maryland: Muster Rolls & Other Records of Service of Maryland Troops in the American Revolution
• Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolutionary War (at Ancestry/requires payment)
• New Jersey: Official Register of the Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Revolutionary War
• Ohio: The Official Roster of the Soldiers of the American Revolution Buried in the State of Ohio (at Ancestry/requires payment)
• Pennsylvania Revolutionary War Military Abstract Card File Indexes
• Pennsylvania: Valley Forge Muster Roll
• North Carolina Revolutionary War Soldiers (at Ancestry/requires payment)
• Vermont Men in the Revolutionary War (at Ancestry/requires payment)
• Virginia: Library of Virginia Online Military Records includes Revolutionary War records

Spanish-American War

• Ancestry's Military Records Collection (at Ancestry/requires payment) includes these Spanish-American War items...
  • Connecticut Servicemen, Spanish American War
  • Indiana Spanish American War Records
  • Massachusetts Spanish American War Records
  • Minnesota Volunteers in the Spanish American War and the Philippine Insurrection
  • North Carolina Volunteers, Spanish American War
  • Ohio Soldiers in the War with Spain, 1898-1899
  • Oregon Volunteers, Spanish American War and Philippine Insurrection
  • These scanned books are also included in their "Family & Local Histories" collection...
    • Michigan Men in the Spanish American War
    • Pennsylvania: Record of Pennsylvania Volunteers in the Spanish-American War, 1898
    • Utah: The History of the Utah volunteers in the Spanish-American War and in the Philippine Islands

• Colorado Volunteers in the Spanish American War (1898)
• Illinois Spanish-American War Veterans Database
• Pennsylvania: Spanish American War Veterans' Card File of United States Volunteers
• Tennessee: Index to Service Abstracts in Tennessee Volunteer Units During the Spanish American War - 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Tennessee Infantry
• Texas: U.S. Volunteers, Spanish-American War Service Records 1898 pull down the "Search by Organization" menu to "United States Volunteers, Spanish-American War"
• Wisconsin Genealogy Spanish American War Database

Vietnam War

• Vietnam War, Deceased Casualties, 1965-1972 (at Ancestry/requires payment) more than 100,000 records
• Vietnam War, Casualties Returned Alive, 1962-1979 (at Ancestry/requires payment)

• Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall Page includes a searchable database of names on the wall

• Colorado Vietnam War Casualites June-December 1966 and January-December 1968

• Also see the Korean War section above for some Vietnam War casualties

War of 1812

• Online War of 1812 Records and Indexes

World War One

• Online World War One Records, Indexes and Draft Records

World War Two

• Online World War Two Records, Indexes and Draft Records

General and Military Cemeteries

• Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File, 1850-2010 (at Ancestry/requires payment) contains birth & death dates and other information for more than 14 million veterans

• Access to Archival Databases (AAD) from the US National Archives - included are many war related databases such as...
  • World War II Army Enlistment Records (Electronic Army Serial Number Merged File, 1938-1946)
  • World War II Prisoners of War File, ca. 1942 - ca. 1947
  • Japanese-American Internee File, 1942-1946
  • Korean Conflict Casualty Files
  • Repatriated Korean Conflict Prisoners of War File, ca. 1978 - ca. 1980
  • Combat Area Casualties Database, ca. 1967 - ca. 12/1998 (includes Vietnam Casualties)
  • Data File from the Casualty Information System, 1/1961-12/1981 (includes Vietnam Casualties)
  • Cambodian Incidents File

• American Battle Monuments Commission
  This organization maintains a listing of those buried at American military cemeteries overseas, and those Missing in Action from World War I, World War II, Korea and Vietnam. They also have a listing of Civil War, Mexican War and Spanish American War veterans buried in Mexico, and those who lost their lives during the Korean War. Many of their databases are searchable online.

• Veterans Affairs Burial Search for 120 National Cemeteries (USA)

• For more military cemeteries, see the Military Cemeteries section at: Cemetery Records and Burial Indexes on the Internet - USA