This is a list of Iowa Military Records online and may include service records for those who served in a military force, bounty land offered to those who served, pension records or veteran benefits, and more.
This is a preliminary listing.
From Iowa military records you may learn a person’s
- 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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Iowa Military Records online at the federal and state level
Iowa – Military Records – Iowa, Records of Persons Subject to Military Duty, 1862-1910, index links to images, at FS
Iowa – Military Records – Iowa, Old Age Tax Assistance Records, 1934-1958, index, at FS
Iowa – Military Records – Iowa, Military Discharge Records, ca.1862 – ca.1976, index, at FS
US – Military Records – United States Casualties of Army Personnel, Dependents and Civilian Employees, 1961-1981, index, at FS
US – Military Records – United States Headstone Applications for U.S. Military Veterans, 1925-1949, index & images, at FS
US – Military Records – United States Muster Rolls of the Marine Corps, 1798-1937, index & images, at FS
US – Military Records – United States Naval Enlistment Rendezvous, 1855-1891, index & images, at FS
US – Military Records – United States Registers of Enlistments in the U.S. Army, 1798-1914, index & images, at FS
Iowa – Military Records – Iowa, Armed Forces Grave Registrations, ca. 1835-1998, index
US – Military Records – United States, Burial Registers for Military Posts, Camps, and Stations,1768-1921, index & images, at FS
Iowa – Military Records – Iowa, Armed Forces grave registrations, ca. 1835-1998, at FS
Iowa – Military Records – Iowa, records of persons subject to military duty, 1862-1910, at FS
Iowa – Military Records – Armed Forces grave registration records, 1776-1998, at FS
Iowa – Military Records – Company B, 7th Iowa volunteer infantry: [Chickasaw, Floyd, Howard, and Mitchell Counties], at FS
Iowa – Military Records – Hand book for Iowa Soldier’s and Sailors’ Monument, at FS
Iowa – Military Records – Iowa veterans buried out of state : Graves Registration Service, a division of the Adjutant General’s Department, at FS
Iowa – Military Records – List of ex-soldiers, sailors and marines, living in Iowa, at FS
Iowa – Military Records – Muster roll, 1862, at FS
Iowa – Military Records – Persons subject to military duty, ca. 1862-1910, at FS
Iowa – Military Records – Roster of the Iowa National Guard, April 1, 1908, at FS
Iowa – Military Records – Biennial report of the adjutant general of Iowa for the biennial period ended November 30, 1916, at FS
Iowa – Military Records – Iowa, Grand Army of the Republic Membership Records, 1861-1949, at FS
Iowa – Military Records – Iowa, Old Age Tax Assistance Records, 1934-1958, at FS
Iowa – Military Records – Iowa, Records of Persons Subject to Military Duty, 1862-1910, 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 Revolutionary War, Virginia Pension Application Files, 1830-1875, at FS
US – Revolutionary War, 1775-1783 – United States Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783, index & images, at FS
US – Revolutionary War, 1775-1783 – United States Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors, 1775-1783, index & images, at FS
Iowa – Revolutionary War, 1775-1783 – Michael Keith Mulford compilation of descendants of the Revolutionary War soldiers and patriots buried in Iowa, at FS
Iowa – Revolutionary War, 1775-1783 – Index to the 1840 census of Delaware County, Iowa; 1841 Revolutionary War pensioners in Iowa; index to 1820 census of Crawford County, Michigan Territory; index to 1820 census of Oakland County, Michigan Territory; index to 1830 census of B, at FS
Iowa – Revolutionary War, 1775-1783 – Register of the Society of Sons of the Revolution in the state of Iowa, 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
Iowa – Mexican-American War, 1846-1848 – Compiled service records of volunteer soldiers who served during the Mexican War in Mormon organizations, at FS
Iowa – Mexican-American War, 1846-1848 – Roster and record of Iowa soldiers in the War of the Rebellion: together with historical sketches of volunteer organizations, 1861-1866, 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 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 Confederate Navy and Marine Service Records, 1861-1865, at FS
US – Civil War – United States Records of Confederate Prisoners of War, 1861-1865, at FS
US – Civil War – United States Records of Headstones of Deceased Union Veterans, 1879-1903, index & images, at FS
US – Civil War – United States Register of Confederates and Civilians Who Died in the North,1861-1865, index & images, at FS
Iowa – Civil War – A History of the First Regiment Iowa Cavalry veteran volunteers : from its organization in 1861 to its muster out of the United States service in 1866. Also, a complete roster of the regiment, at FS
Iowa – Civil War – A history of the Sixth Iowa Infantry, at FS
Iowa – Civil War – A succinct history of the 28th Iowa Volunteer Infantry : from date of muster into service, October 10th, 1862 at Iowa City, Iowa to its final muster out, August 13th, 1865 at Davenport, Iowa, at FS
Iowa – Civil War – Account book, 1861- ca. 1874, at FS
Iowa – Civil War – Address to the surviving members of the Twenty-First Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry, on the occasion of their fourth reunion at Strawberry Point, Iowa, September 3d, 1889, at FS
Iowa – Civil War – American patriotism, or, memoirs of “common men”, at FS
Iowa – Civil War – Campaigns and battles of the Twelfth Regiment, Iowa Veteran Volunteer Infantry : from organization, September 1861, to muster out, January 20, 1866, at FS
Iowa – Civil War – Casualties of the 39th Iowa infantry (Civil War), at FS
Iowa – Civil War – Civil War records of Company “C”, 32nd Infantry, Iowa, at FS
Iowa – Civil War – Company E, 2nd Iowa Infantry Regiment, at FS
Iowa – Civil War – Downing’s Civil War diary, at FS
Iowa – Civil War – Edmond Dean Jones of Springville, Iowa : life and times, including Civil War letters, at FS
Iowa – Civil War – First and second re-unions of the Thirty-Fifth Iowa Infantry held at Muscatine, Iowa : first re-union, September 29, 1886, second re-union, October 2 and 3, 1889, at FS
Iowa – Civil War – Grand Army of the Republic records, Iowa posts : indexes to veterans ; post membership records, at FS
Iowa – Civil War – Hand book for Iowa Soldier’s and Sailors’ Monument, at FS
Iowa – Civil War – History of the fifteenth regiment, Iowa veteran volunteer infantry : from October 1861 to August 1865, when disbanded at end of the war, at FS
Iowa – Civil War – History of the Nineteenth Regiment, Iowa Volunteer Infantry, at FS
Iowa – Civil War – History of the Thirtieth Iowa Infantry Volunteers : giving a complete record of the movements of the regiment from its organization, until mustered out, at FS
Iowa – Civil War – Incidents connected with the history of the Thirty-Second Iowa Infantry, at FS
Iowa – Civil War – Index to compiled service records of volunteer Union soldiers who served in organizations from the state of Iowa, at FS
Iowa – Civil War – Iowa colonels and regiments : being a history of Iowa regiments in the War of the Rebellion and containing a description of the battles in which they have fought, at FS
Iowa – Civil War – Iowa colonels and regiments : being a history of Iowa regiments in the War of the Rebellion and containing a description of the battles in which they have fought, at FS
Iowa – Civil War – Iowa in war times, at FS
Iowa – Civil War – Iowa victims of Andersonville, at FS
Iowa – Civil War – Iowa, Grand Army of the Republic Membership Records, 1861-1949, index & images
Iowa – Civil War – Military records, 1861-1865, at FS
Iowa – Civil War – Muster rolls, 1864, at FS
Iowa – Civil War – Nebraska / Iowa Grand Army of the Republic records, 1861-1948, at FS
Iowa – Civil War – Official army list of the volunteers of Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, and Colorado, at FS
Iowa – Civil War – Proceedings of Crocker’s Iowa Brigade, at FS
Iowa – Civil War – Proceedings of the reunion and camp-fire of the Iowa Battery Association, Council Bluffs, Iowa, September 21st and 22nd, 1898 : including some other matters of interest to “the old boys”, at FS
Iowa – Civil War – Revised roster, Company D, 12th Regiment, Iowa Infantry Volunteers, at FS
Iowa – Civil War – Roster and record of Iowa soldiers in the War of the Rebellion : together with historical sketches of volunteer organizations, 1861-1866, at FS
Iowa – Civil War – Roster of 6th Iowa Vol. Inft., arranged by companies : names and p.o. address of all surviving comrades so far as known, done at Osceola, Iowa, Aug., A.D. 1888, at FS
Iowa – Civil War – Roster of Co. I, 6th infantry, war of the rebellion: recruited and organized at Burlington, Iowa, springtime of 1861, at FS
Iowa – Civil War – Roster of the Fourth Iowa Cavalry Veteran Volunteers, 1861-1865, at FS
Iowa – Civil War – Sergeant Rose and the 15th Iowa in the War of the Rebellion, at FS
Iowa – Civil War – Sketches of two companies from Appanoose County, Iowa being 1, Third Reg. Iowa Cavalry, and Co. D, Sixth Reg. Iowa Infantry, also the live business men Centerville, Iowa, at FS
Iowa – Civil War – Statistical roster of the Fifth Iowa Volunteer Infantry, at FS
Iowa – Civil War – The Second Iowa Infantry at Fort Donelson, February 15, 1862 : together with an outline history of the regiment from its organization at Keokuk, Iowa, May 27, 1861 to final discharge at Davenport, Iowa, July 20, 1865, at FS
Iowa – Civil War – The Thirty-Fourth Iowa Regiment : brief history, at FS
Iowa – Civil War – Third reunion, Iowa Brigade : 2d, 7th, 8th, 12th and 14th infantry : held at Newton, Iowa, Wednesday and Thursday, August 21 and 22, 1895, at FS
Iowa – Civil War – Three years among the Indians in Dakota, at FS
Iowa – Civil War – United States Union Provost Marshal Files of Individual Civilians, 1861-1866, at FS
Iowa – Civil War – United States Union Provost Marshal Files of Two or More Civilians, 1861-1866, at FS
Iowa – Philippine Insurrection, 1899-1901 – From Iowa to the Philippines: a history of company M, Fifty-First Iowa Infantry Volunteers, 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
Iowa – World War I – Iowa, Black Hawk County, Waterloo, World War I Pledge Cards, 1917-1918, index links to images, at FS
Iowa – World War I – Iowa, World War I Selective Service System draft registration cards, 1917-1918, at FS
Iowa – World War I – The story of the 168th infantry, at FS
Iowa – World War I – The price of our heritage : in memory of the heroic dead of the 168 Infantry, 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
Iowa – World War II – Iowa, military records: World War II 4th draft registration cards, 1942, at FS
Iowa – World War II – Iowa, World War II draft registration cards for young men, 1940-1947, at FS
Iowa – World War II – World War II honor list of dead and missing: state of Iowa, at FS
US – Vietnam War – United States Military Personnel who Died During the Vietnam War, 1956-2003, at FS
US – Veterans – United States, Veterans Administration Master Index, 1917-1940, index links to images, at FS
US – Veterans – United States Index to Indian Wars Pension Files, 1892-1926, index & images, at FS
US – Veterans – United States General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934, index & images, at FS
Iowa Military Records online at the County level
Adair County – History – History of Guthrie and Adair Counties, Iowa : Together with Sketches of Their Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens, at FS
Adair County – History – History of Guthrie and Adair Counties, Iowa : Together with Sketches of Their Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens, at FS
Benton County – Military History – The History of Benton County, Iowa : Containing a History of the County, a Biographical Directory, War Record of Its Volunteers, History of Iowa, at FS
Buena Vista County – Military History – World War, 1914-1918 – Buena Vista’s Part in the World War : One Iowa County’s Record of Service and Sacrifice, at FS
Cass County – Military History – World War, 1914-1918 – Cass County in the World War, 1917-1918-1919, at FS
Cedar County – Military History – Civil War, 1861-1865 – The History of Cedar County, Iowa : Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Town, Etc., a Biographical Directory of Its Citizens, War Record of Its Volunteers in the Late Rebellion …, at FS
Cedar County – Military History – Civil War, 1861-1865 – The History of Cedar County, Iowa : Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns, &c. : a Biographical Directory of Its Citizens, War Record of Its Volunteers in the Late Rebellion, General and Local Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, History of the Northwest, History of Iowa, Map of Cedar County, at FS
Cherokee County – Military History – World War, 1914-1918 – Honor Roll and War History of Cherokee County, Iowa, 1917, 1918, 1919 : Service Men’s Records and Photographs Secured by John W. Stevens ; History of Home Organizations and General Compilation of All Work Arranged by W.E. Hunter, at FS
Clayton County – History – History of Clayton County, Iowa : Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons and Biographies of Representative Citizens, at FS
Clayton County – History – History of Clayton County, Iowa : Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons and Biographies of Representative Citizens, at FS
Guthrie County – History – History of Guthrie and Adair Counties, Iowa : Together with Sketches of Their Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens, at FS
Guthrie County – History – History of Guthrie and Adair Counties, Iowa : Together with Sketches of Their Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens, at FS
Humboldt County – History – History of Kossuth and Humboldt Counties, Iowa : Together with Sketches of Their Cities, Village and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Representative Citizens; History of Iowa, at FS
Jefferson County – Military History – Iowa 34th Division Band History, at FS
Keokuk County – Military History – World War, 1914-1918 – Keokuk County [Iowa] and the World War : Being an Honor Roll of Those Who Answered the Call to Arms During the Late War, with Their Records of Service, and an Historical Account of the County’s Achievements in the War, at FS
Kossuth County – History – History of Kossuth and Humboldt Counties, Iowa : Together with Sketches of Their Cities, Village and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Representative Citizens; History of Iowa, at FS
Marshall County – Military History – World War, 1914-1918 – Marshall County in the World War, 1917-1918 : a Pictorial History of the Community’s Participation in All Wartime Activities with a Complete Roster of Soldiers and Sailors in Service, at FS
Monroe County – History – An Illustrated History of Monroe County, Iowa : a Complete Civil, Political, and Military History of the County, from Its Earliest Period of Organization Down to 1896…, at FS
Monroe County – History – An Illustrated History of Monroe County, Iowa : a Complete Civil, Political, and Military History of the County, from Its Earliest Period of Organization Down to 1896…, at FS
Monroe County – Military History – An Illustrated History of Monroe County, Iowa : a Complete Civil, Political, and Military History of the County, from Its Earliest Period of Organization Down to 1896…, at FS
Monroe County – Military History – An Illustrated History of Monroe County, Iowa : a Complete Civil, Political, and Military History of the County, from Its Earliest Period of Organization Down to 1896…, at FS
Monroe County – Military History – The History of Monroe County, Iowa : Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Town, &c., a Biographical Directory of Citizens, War Record of Its Volunteers in the Late Rebellion, General and Local Statistics …, at FS
Shelby County – Public Records – Iowa, Shelby County, Military Records : Soldier’s Relief, at FS
Tama County – History – History of Tama County, Iowa : Together with Sketches of Their Towns, Villages, and Townships, Educational , Civil, Military and Political History, Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Representative Citizens, at FS
Tama County – History – History of Tama County, Iowa : Together with Sketches of Their Towns, Villages, and Townships, Educational , Civil, Military and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Representative Citizens, at FS
Tama County – Military History – World War, 1914-1918 – Tama County, Iowa in the World War, 1917-1918 : a Pictorial History of an American Community in the Defense of Democracy, at FS
Van Buren County – Military History – Societies – Van Buren County, at FS
Warren County – Taxation – Liberty Township Tax Assessment List for Year 1880 Including Persons of Military Age, at FS
Washington County – Military History – Washington County (Iowa) in the World War : Pictorial and Biographical Reviews of Washington County’s Most Generous and Patriotic Contribution to the Great Victory of Democracy, at FS
Wayne County – Military History – Civil War, 1861-1865 – Regimental Histories – Civil War Veterans, Wayne County, Iowa, Civil War Centennial, at FS
Iowa Military Records online at the City level
Keokuk – Military History – Civil War, 1861-1865 – History of the Fifteenth Regiment, Iowa Veteran Volunteer Infantry : from October, 1861, to August, 1865, when Disbanded at the End of the War, at FS
Parkersburg – Military History – Service Record Book of Men and Women of Parkersburg, Iowa and Community, at FS
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