This is a list of Colorado Military Records online and is only a preliminary list. From these records you might learn:
- Name
- Birth date
- Birth place
- Age, gender, and race
- Physical description of person
- Marital status
- Names of dependants
- Address
- Parents’ names and birth places
- Name of nearest relative
- Draft registration place
- Dates of military service
- Conflict or war
- Soldier’s serial number, rank, assigned organization
- Date of casualty/category of casualty
- Date of death
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- BPL – Burlington Public Library
- CGHS – Columbine Genealogical and Historical Society
- DPL – Denver Public Library
- FGS – Foothills Genelogical Society
- IA – Internet Archive
- KMW – Karen Mitchell Websites
- PCCLD – Pueblo City County Library District
- PPLD – Pikes Peak Library District
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- WCGS – Weld County Genealogical Society
US Military Records with Colorado residents
US – United States Muster Rolls of the Marine Corps, 1798-1937, index & images, at FS
US – United States Naval Enlistment Rendezvous, 1855-1891, index & images, at FS
US – United States Registers of Enlistments in the U.S. Army, 1798-1914, index & images, at FS
US – United States, Burial Registers for Military Posts, Camps, and Stations,1768-1921, index & images, at FS
US – United States, Veterans Administration Master Index, 1917-1940, index links to images, at FS
US – Colorado, Military Discharge Records, ca.1919-1972, index, at FS
US – History of the military organizations of the State of Colorado, 1860-1935, at FS
US – United States Casualties of Army Personnel, Dependents and Civilian Employees, 1961-1981, index, at FS
US – United States Headstone Applications for U.S. Military Veterans, 1925-1949, index & images, at FS
US – Revolutionary War, 1775-1783 – United States Revolutionary War Pension Payment Ledgers, 1818-1872, index & images, at FS
US – Revolutionary War, 1775-1783 – United States Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors, 1775-1783, index & images, at FS
US – Mexican-American War, 1846-1848 – United States Mexican War Index and Service Records, 1846-1848, index & images, at FS
US – Mexican-American War, 1846-1848 – United States Mexican War Pension Index, 1887-1926, index & images, at FS
US – Civil War – United States Civil War Confederate Papers of Citizens or Businesses, 1861-1865, index links to images, at FS
US – Civil War – United States Civil War Soldiers Index, 1861-1865, index, at FS
US – Civil War – United States Civil War Widows and Other Dependents Pension Files, 1861-1934, index links to images, at FS
US – Civil War – United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861-1917, index links to images, at FS
US – Civil War – United States Records of Headstones of Deceased Union Veterans, 1879-1903, index & images, at FS
US – Civil War – Official army list of the volunteers of Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, and Colorado, at FS
US – Civil War – Civil War index cards, 1861-1865, at FS
US – Civil War – Index to compiled service records of volunteer Union soldiers who served in organizations from the territory of Colorado, at FS
US – Civil War – Colorado volunteers in the Civil War : the New Mexico campaign in 1862, at FS
US – Civil War – Roster of the Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War 1861 – 1865, at FS
US – Civil War – The fighting men of Colorado : Asiatic-Pacific theater in World War II, at FS
US – Civil War – United States, War Relocation Authority centers, final accountability rosters, 1945-1946, at FS
US – Indian Wars – United States Index to Indian Wars Pension Files, 1892-1926, index & images, at FS
US – World War I – United States, World War I American Expeditionary Forces Deaths, 1917-1919, index links to images, at FS
US – World War I – United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, index & images, at FS
US – World War II – United States Japanese Americans Relocated During World War II, 1942-1946, index, at FS
US – World War II – United States World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946, index, at FS
US – World War II – United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942, index & images, at FS
US – Veterans, Enlistments, Pensions – United States Civil War Widows and Other Dependents Pension Files, 1861-1934, index links to images, at FS
US – Veterans, Enlistments, Pensions – United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861-1917, index links to images, at FS
US – Veterans, Enlistments, Pensions – United States Old War Pension Index, 1815-1926, index & images, at FS
US – Veterans, Enlistments, Pensions – United States General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934, index & images, at FS
US – Veterans, Enlistments, Pensions – United States Index to Indian Wars Pension Files, 1892-1926, index & images, at FS
Colorado Military Records online at the state level
Colorado – Civil War – Colorado Territory Civil War Volunteer Records 1861-1865, at CGHS
Colorado – World War I – Colorado, World War I American Expeditionary Forces, deaths, 1917-1919, at FS
Colorado – World War I – Colorado, World War I Selective Service System draft registration cards, 1917-1918, at FS
Colorado – World War II – Colorado, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1945, index & images, at FS
Colorado – World War II – Colorado, military records : World War II 4th draft registration cards, 1942, at FS
Colorado – World War II – Colorado, World War II draft registration cards, 1940-1947, at FS
Colorado – World War II – Colorado, World War II draft registration cards, 1940-1947, at FS
Colorado – World War II – The fighting men of Colorado : Asiatic-Pacific theater in World War II, at FS
Colorado – Military Records – Colorado World War I Draft Registrations – Minorities, “Index to World War I draft registration cards on microfilm.”, at DPL
Colorado – Military Records – Civil War Grand Army of the Republic – Colorado, “Listing of Colorado veterans who served in the United States military during the Civil War.”, at DPL
Colorado – Military Records – Record of U.S. Soldiers for the Suppression of the Rebellion, “Members of the Grand Army of the Republic from Colorado who were buried in the G.A.R. burial ground at Riverside Cemetery. Includes those buried and later removed from Calvary [Catholic], Hebrew, and Old City [Mount Prospect] cemeteries, Denver.”, at DPL
Colorado – Military Records – Roster of General Henry W. Lawton Camp No. 1 United Spanish War Veterans, “Digitization of these directories is ongoing, and they will be made available as they are completed.”, at DPL
Colorado – Military Records – Colorado World War I Casualties in Europe, “Location of the burial place of each fallen soldier is given.”, at DPL
Colorado – Military Records – Colorado World War I Draft Registration Cards, “Index to World War I draft registration cards on microfilm.”, at DPL
Colorado – Military Records – Colorado World War I Draft Registration Cards-Minorities, “Index to World War I draft registration cards on microfilm.”, at DPL
Colorado – Military Records – Counties Outside of Denver Draft Quotas 1917, “Names of men who were drafted for active service for World War I from Colorado counties, except Denver.”, at DPL
Colorado – Military Records – Nebraska Civil War Veterans Records, “Lists of members of the Grand Army of the Republic and the name of their post in Nebraska., at DPL
Colorado – Military Records – Nebraska Civil War Grand Army of the Republic, “A-D; E-K; L-R; S-Z”, at DPL
Colorado – Military Records – Nebraska Civil War Veterans’ Data “A-F; G-L; M-Q; R-Z”, at DPL
Colorado – Military Records – Nebraska WWI Draft Registration Cards 1917 – 18, “Alphabetical index of draft registration cards for men living in Nebraska.”, at DPL
Colorado – Military Records – World War II Honor List of Dead and Missing; State of Colorado, “Listing of Colorado’s war dead and those missing in action during World War II.”, at DPL
Colorado – Military Records – World War I Civilian Registration Index of Colorado Minorities (non-whites), at DPL
Colorado – Military Records – 10th Mtn. Division Name Lookup Index, at DPL
Colorado Military History at the county level
Clear Creek County – Military Records – WWII Draft Registration Cards, at FGS
El Paso County – Veteran Graves – Pikes Peak NewsFinder (Local Newspaper Index), at PPLD
Gilpin County – Military Records – WWII Draft Registration Cards, at FGS
Jefferson County – Military Records – WWI Draft Registration Cards, at FGS
Jefferson County – Military Records – WWII Draft Registration Cards, at FGS
Las Animas County – Military Records – Las Animas County Military Records, at KMW
Pueblo County – Military Records – Pueblo County Military Records, at KMW
Pueblo County – Military Records – World War I and Pueblo, at PCCLD
Pueblo County – Military Records – Joseph Merrill Civil War Collection, at PCCLD
Park County – Military Records – WWII Draft Registration Cards, at FGS
Otero County – Military History – World War, 1914-1918 – With the Colors from Otero County : Being a Record of the Part Performed by Otero County, Colorado, in the Great World War, 1917-1919, at FS
Weld County – Military – Weld County Veterans Memorial Names 11-1-2019, at WCGS
Colorado Military History at the city level
Burlington – Veterans – Kit Carson County Veterans’ Obituaries, at BPL
Denver – Military Records – Fallen Heroes of World War I from Denver, Colorado, “Names of men and women from Denver who lost their lives during WWI. List taken from the article, “Hail, Heroes! Hail!” which appeared in the Denver Post, November 11, 1920.”, at DPL
Denver – Societies – Journal of the Sixty-second National Encampment, Grand Army of the Republic, Denver, Colorado., September 16 to 21, 1928. March 2, 1929. — Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and Ordered to Be Printed, with Illustrations, at FS
Fort Carson – Military History – A Tradition of Victory, at FS
Fort Carson – Military History – Periodicals – 9th Infantry Division, Fort Carson, Colorado, at FS
Fort Carson – Military History – Schools – 9th Infantry Division, Fort Carson, Colorado, at FS
Pueblo – Military Records – World War I and Pueblo, at PCCLD
Pueblo – Military Records – Joseph Merrill Civil War Collection, at PCCLD
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