This is a list of Kansas 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 Kansas 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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Kansas Military Records online at the federal and state level
US – Military Records – United States Casualties of Army Personnel, Dependents and Civilian Employees, 1961-1981, index, 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 Old War Pension Index, 1815-1926, index & images, at FS
US – Military Records – United States Registers of Enlistments in the U.S. Army, 1798-1914, index & images, at FS
US – Military Records – United States, Veterans Administration Master Index, 1917-1940, index links to images, at FS
US – Military Records – United States Bureau of Land Management Tract Books, 1800-c. 1955, at FS
US – Military Records – United States Internal Revenue Assessment Lists, 1862-1874, at FS
US – Military Records – United States, Cancelled, Relinquished, or Rejected Land Entry Case Files, 1861-1932, at FS
US – Military Records – United States, Homestead Final Certificates, 1863-1909, at FS
US – Military Records – United States, Freedmen’s Branch Records, 1872-1878, at FS
Kansas, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1945, index, at FS
Kansas – Military Records – Kansas, Military Discharge Records, ca.1862 – ca.1999, index, at FS
Kansas – Military Records – Index for 1889 ex soldiers & sailors, their widows and orphans & 1930 ex service men, widows and orphans, at FS
Kansas – Military Records – Genealogical material from Kansas State D.A.R. (source material), at FS
Kansas – Military Records – Headquarters records of Fort Dodge, Kansas, 1866-1882, at FS
Kansas – Military Records – Headquarters records of Fort Scott, Kansas, 1869-1873, at FS
Kansas – Military Records – History and roster of the Kansas State Guard, August 6, 1917, to November 11, 1919, at FS
Kansas – Military Records – Kansas troops in the volunteer service of the United States in the Spanish and Philippine wars, mustered in under the first and second calls of the President of the United States : May 9, 1898-October 28, 1899, at FS
Kansas – Military Records – Kansas troops in the volunteer service of the United States in the Spanish and Philippine wars, mustered in under the first and second calls of the President of the United States : May 9, 1898-October 28, 1899, at FS
Kansas – Military Records – Miscellaneous records relating to Kansas forts, at FS
Kansas – Military Records – Records of Fort Hays, Kansas, 1866-1889, at FS
Kansas – Military Records – Roster of officers and troops in the field at Crisfield, Kansas, July and August 1885 : Col. Henry A. Morrow, 21st Infantry, commanding, at FS
Kansas – Military Records – Roster of the Eighth Kansas Infantry : 3d Brigade, 1st Division, 20th Army Corps. ; 1st Brigade, 3d Division, 4th Army Corps. : September 1, 1888, at FS
Kansas – Military Records – Second regiment Kansas volunteer cavalry : [1862-1864], at FS
Kansas – Military Records – Service record book of men and women of Russell County, at FS
Kansas – Military Records – Roster of the members and posts, 1894, at FS
Kansas – Military Records – Yearbook: Daughters of Colonial Wars in the State of Kansas, at FS
Kansas – Military Records – Fort Riley, Kansas : the story of the 9th Infantry Division: “The Old Reliables.”, 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 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 – United States Register of Confederates and Civilians Who Died in the North,1861-1865, index & 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 Union Provost Marshal Files of Individual Civilians, 1861-1866, at FS
US – Civil War – United States Union Provost Marshal Files of Two or More Civilians, 1861-1866, at FS
Kansas – Civil War – Kansas – [collection of various history], at FS
Kansas – Civil War – Kansas, military records : Grand Army of the Republic, 1880-1943, at FS
Kansas – Civil War – Miscellaneous records, at FS
Kansas – Civil War – Official army list of the volunteers of Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, and Colorado, at FS
Kansas – Civil War – Report of the Adjutant General of the state of Kansas, for the year …, at FS
Kansas – Civil War – Index to compiled service records of volunteer Union soldiers who served in organizations from the state of Kansas, at FS
Kansas – Civil War – Index to the Kansas militia in the Civil War, at FS
Kansas – Civil War – Charles W. Quantrell : a true history of his guerrilla warfare on the Missouri and Kansas border during the Civil War of 1861-1865, at FS
Kansas – Civil War – Handbook on the frontier days of southeast Kansas : Kansas Centennial 1861-1961, at FS
Kansas – Civil War – Kansas : the prelude to the war for the union, at FS
Kansas – Civil War – Kansas in the sixties, at FS
Kansas – Civil War – Proceedings of State encampments with honor lists, 1893-1898, at FS
Kansas – Civil War – Roster of the members and posts, 1894, at FS
Kansas – Civil War – A selected, annotated bibliography of sources in the Kansas State Historical Society pertaining to Kansas in the Civil War, at FS
Kansas – Civil War – Addresses, at FS
Kansas – Civil War – Fort Scott’s regiment: the Sixth Kansas Volunteer Cavalry 1861-1865, at FS
Kansas – Civil War – Roll of the officers and enlisted men of the Third, Fourth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Kansas Volunteers 1861, at FS
Kansas – Civil War – The Seventh Kansas Cavalry : its service in the Civil War : an address before the State Historical Society, December 2, 1902, at FS
Kansas – Civil War – Journal of the … annual encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, Department of Kansas, at FS
Kansas – Civil War – Roster of the Department of Kansas, Grand Army of the Republic, at FS
US – Indian Wars – United States Index to Indian Wars Pension Files, 1892-1926, index & images
US – Spanish-American War – United States, Kansas – Military history – Spanish-American War, 1898 ( 2 ), at FS
Kansas – Spanish-American War – Kansas troops in the volunteer service of the United States in the Spanish and Philippine wars, mustered in under the first and second calls of the President of the United States : May 9, 1898-October 28, 1899, at FS
Kansas – Spanish-American War – Kansas troops in the volunteer service of the United States in the Spanish and Philippine wars, mustered in under the first and second calls of the President of the United States : May 9, 1898-October 28, 1899, at FS
Kansas – Philippine Insurrections, 1899-1901 – Kansas troops in the volunteer service of the United States in the Spanish and Philippine wars, mustered in under the first and second calls of the President of the United States : May 9, 1898-October 28, 1899, at FS
Kansas – Philippine Insurrections, 1899-1901 – Kansas troops in the volunteer service of the United States in the Spanish and Philippine wars, mustered in under the first and second calls of the President of the United States : May 9, 1898-October 28, 1899, at FS
Kansas – Philippine Insurrections, 1899-1901 – “The fighting Twentieth.” : history and official souvenir of the Twentieth Kansas Regiment, 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
Kansas – World War I – Kansas casualities in the World War, 1917-1919. Regular army. National guard. National army. Enlisted reserve corps., at FS
Kansas – World War I – Kansas casualties in the World War, 1917-1919, at FS
Kansas – World War I – Kansas, World War I American Expeditionary Forces, deaths, 1917-1919, at FS
Kansas – World War I – Kansas, World War I Selective Service System draft registration cards, 1917-1918, at FS
Kansas – World War I – Records of Indians in World War I, at FS
Kansas – World War I – World War I draft registration cards : prisoners, Indians, insane, in hospitals & late registrants, Kansas & Kentucky, 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
Kansas – World War II – Kansas, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1945, index links to images, at FS
Kansas – World War II – Kansas, military records : World War II 4th draft registration cards, 1942, at FS
Kansas – World War II – Kansas, World War II draft registration cards, 1940-1947, at FS
Kansas – World War II – Service record book of men and women of Russell County, at FS
Kansas – World War II – Combat history of the 137th Infantry Regiment, World War II, at FS
Kansas – Korean War – United States Korean War Dead and Army Wounded, 1950-1953, index, at FS
Kansas Military Records online at the County level
Atchison County – Military Records – Discharge Records, 1943-1990, at FS
Butler County – Military Records – Military Discharge Records, 1943-1950, at FS
Chase County – Military Records – World War, 1914-1918 – Chase County Kansas Military Registration, World War I, 1917-1918, at FS
Chase County – Military Records – Military Discharge Records (Chase County, Kansas), at FS
Chase County – Military Records – Military Discharge Records (Chase County, Kansas), at FS
Chautauqua County – Military Records – World War, 1914-1918 – Military Discharge Records, Ca. 1900-1949, Chautauqua County, Kansas, at FS
Chautauqua County – Military Records – Civil War, 1861-1865 – Original Record of Sedan G.A.R. Name and Company of Every Civil War Soldier of Chautauqua County, Kansas, 1861-1866, at FS
Chautauqua County – Military Records – World War, 1939-1945 – Military Discharge Records, Ca. 1900-1949, Chautauqua County, Kansas, at FS
Comanche County – Military Records – World War, 1914-1918 – World War I Draft Registration Cards : Comanche County, Kansas, at FS
Clay County – Military Records – World War, 1914-1918 – Clay County Veterans of the World War, 1917-1918, at FS
Clay County – Military Records – Military Discharge Record, 1919-1957, at FS
Coffey County – Military Records – Soldiers’ Discharge Records, 1869-1885, at FS
Douglas County – Military Records – World War, 1939-1945 – Men and Women in the Armed Forces from Douglas County, Lawrence, Kansas, at FS
Elk County – Military Records – World War, 1914-1918 – Military Discharged Records, 1865-1966, Elk County, Kansas, at FS
Elk County – Military Records – Civil War, 1861-1865 – Military Discharged Records, 1865-1966, Elk County, Kansas, at FS
Elk County – Military Records – World War, 1939-1945 – Military Discharged Records, 1865-1966, Elk County, Kansas, at FS
Geary County – Naturalization and Citizenship – Military Petitions for Naturalization, 1918-1921, at FS
Gove County – Military Records – Civil War, 1861-1865 – Kansas, Gove County, Civil War Enrollment Records, 1861-1889, at FS
Gray County – Military Records – Residents of Montezuma Township, Gray County, Kansas over 21 in 1888 ; Militia Rolls, 1893-1902, at FS
Greenwood County – Military Records – World War, 1914-1918 – Military Discharge Records, Greenwood County, Kansas, 1862-1949, at FS
Greenwood County – Military Records – Civil War, 1861-1865 – Military Discharge Records, Greenwood County, Kansas, 1862-1949, at FS
Greenwood County – Military Records – World War, 1939-1945 – Military Discharge Records, Greenwood County, Kansas, 1862-1949, at FS
Harvey County – Military Records – Military Discharges, 1919-1946, at FS
Harvey County – Military Records – Pension Papers, Ca. 1891-1927, at FS
Harvey County – Military Records – Those Who Served in World War II in the Armed Forces and on the Home Front from Harvey County, Kansas, at FS
Jackson County – Military Records – Discharge Records, 1862-1965, at FS
Labette County – Military Records – World War, 1914-1918 – World War I Draft Registration Cards : Labette County, Kansas, at FS
Leavenworth County – Military Records – World War, 1914-1918 – Soldiers and Sailors Discharges, 1919-1920, 1935-1946, at FS
Leavenworth County – Military Records – Registers of Veterans at the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Western Branch in Leavenworth, Kansas, 1885-1934, at FS
Leavenworth County – Military Records – World War, 1939-1945 – Soldiers and Sailors Discharges, 1919-1920, 1935-1946, at FS
Leavenworth County – Naturalization and Citizenship – Military Petitions for Naturalizations, 1918-1919, at FS
Linn County – Military Records – Registration of Discharges from Military Service, 1919-1960, at FS
Marion County – Military Records – World War, 1914-1918 – World War Roll of Honor, Marion County, Kansas 1917-1920 : Marion County, Kansas, at FS
Marion County – Military Records – Miscellaneous Property Records (Marion County, Kansas), 1871-1920, at FS
Marshall County – Military Records – Soldiers and Sailors Discharge Record, 1919-1973, at FS
McPherson County – Military Records – Military Discharge Records from Miscellaneous Land Record Books, 1880-2002, Index to Military Discharge Records, 1880-2002, at FS
McPherson County – Military Records – Soldiers Enrollment Record, 1883, at FS
Morris County – Military Records – Index to Military Discharges, 1917-1999, at FS
Neosho County – Military Records – Soldiers’ Discharges, Filed 1883-1947, at FS
Pottawatomie County – Military Records – Discharge Record, V. 1, 1919-1970 ; Service Index to V. 1-6, at FS
Riley County – Military Records – Records of Discharged Soldiers and Sailors, 1919-1953, at FS
Rush County – Military Records – World War, 1914-1918 – Military Discharge Records, 1917-1960, at FS
Rush County – Military Records – World War, 1939-1945 – Military Discharge Records, 1917-1960, at FS
Russell County – Military History – World War, 1914-1918 – Russell County in the War : Being a Record of the War Activities of the County and the Part That It Played in the Struggle, at FS
Shawnee County – Military Records – Honor Roll, Shawnee County, Kansas : Designed, Engraved, and Edited by the Burger Engraving Co., at FS
Shawnee County – Military Records – World War, 1939-1945 – Men and Women in the Armed Forces from Shawnee County, at FS
Shawnee County – Military History – World War, 1914-1918 – Honor Roll, Shawnee County, Kansas : Designed, Engraved, and Edited by the Burger Engraving Co., at FS
Sheridan County – Military Records – Kansas, Sheridan County, Enrollment of Ex-soldiers and Sailors, Their Widows and Orphans of the Late Armies of the United States, 1870-1900, at FS
Sheridan County – Military Records – Kansas, Sheridan County, McDowel Post No. 290 G.A.R. Records, 1885-1900, at FS
Stanton County – Military Records – World War, 1914-1918 – World War I Draft Registration Cards : Stanton and Stevens Counties, Kansas, at FS
Stevens County – Military Records – World War, 1914-1918 – World War I Draft Registration Cards : Stanton and Stevens Counties, Kansas, at FS
Woodson County – Military Records – Woodson County, Kansas Veterans’ Burial Records : War of 1812, Civil War, Spanish American War, World War I, World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War, Unknown Wars, at FS
Wyandotte County – Military Records – Soldiers’ Discharge Records, 1919-1929, at FS
Kansas Military Records online at the City level
Crisfield – Military Records – Roster of Officers and Troops in the Field at Crisfield, Kansas, July and August 1885 : Col. Henry A. Morrow, 21st Infantry, Commanding, at FS
Fort Leavenworth – Military Records – Military Petitions for Naturalizations, 1918-1919, at FS
Fort Scott – Military Records – Civil War, 1861-1865 – Index to Fort Scott Monitor Articles on the 6th Kansas Cavalry, at FS
Garden City – Military Records – The Planesman, at FS
Lawrence – Military History – Civil War, 1861-1865 – The Sack of Lawrence : What Price Glory?, at FS
Lawrence – Military Records – Military Record of James A. Porter, at FS
Leavenworth – Military Records – Death/burial Records of National Home for Disabled Volunteers, 1927-1937, at FS
Oskaloosa – Military Records – Service Record Book of Men and Women of Oskaloosa, Kansas and Community (including Ozawkie and McLouth), at FS
Otis – Military Records – World War, 1914-1918 – Service Record Book of Men and Women of Otis, Kansas and Vicinity, at FS
Otis – Military Records – World War, 1939-1945 – Service Record Book of Men and Women of Otis, Kansas and Vicinity, at FS
Sedan – Military Records – Civil War, 1861-1865 – Original Record of Sedan G.A.R. Name and Company of Every Civil War Soldier of Chautauqua County, Kansas, 1861-1866, at FS
Topeka – Military History – World War, 1914-1918 – Memories of World War Days, at FS
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