This is a list of South Carolina 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.
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- 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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South Carolina Military Records online at the Federal and State level
US – Military Records – United States Muster Rolls of the Marine Corps, 1798-1937, index & images
US – Military Records – United States Naval Enlistment Rendezvous, 1855-1891, index & images
US – Military Records – United States Casualties of Army Personnel, Dependents and Civilian Employees, 1961-1981, index
US – Military Records – United States General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934, index & images
US – Military Records – United States Headstone Applications for U.S. Military Veterans, 1925-1949, index & images
US – Military Records – United States, Burial Registers for Military Posts, Camps, and Stations,1768-1921, index links to images
US – Military Records – United States Registers of Enlistments in the U.S. Army, 1798-1914, index & images
US – Military Records – United States, Veterans Administration Master Index, 1917-1940, index links to images
South Carolina – Military Records – Accounts audited of claims growing out of the Revolution in South Carolina: alphabetical name index
South Carolina – Military Records – Report of the commission appointed by the General Assembly of South Carolina to mark the grave of Gen. Thomas Sumter
South Carolina – Colonial Period, ca. 1600-1775 – South Carolina colonial soldiers and patriots
South Carolina – French & Indian War, 1755-1763 – Abstract of pensions of South Carolina soldiers of the Revolutionary War, War of 1812 and Indian wars
US – Revolutionary War – United States Revolutionary War Pension Payment Ledgers, 1818-1872, index & images
US – Revolutionary War – United States Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Applications, 1800-1900, index links to images
US – Revolutionary War – United States Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783, index & images
US – Revolutionary War – United States Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors, 1775-1783, index & images
South Carolina – Revolutionary War – Revolutionary War pension applicants who served from South Carolina
South Carolina – Revolutionary War – South Carolina pension abstracts of the Revolutionary War, War of 1812, and Indian Wars
South Carolina – Revolutionary War – Accounts audited of claims growing out of the Revolution in South Carolina
South Carolina – Revolutionary War – Accounts audited of revolutionary claims against South Carolina
South Carolina – Revolutionary War – Copy of the original index book showing the Revolutionary claims filed in South Carolina between August 20, 1783 and August 31, 1786 : kept by James McCall, auditor general
South Carolina – Revolutionary War – Draper Manuscript Collection, South Carolina in the Revolution
South Carolina – Revolutionary War – Journal of the commissioners of the navy of South Carolina, October 19, 1776-March 1, 1779; July 22, 1779-March 23, 1780
South Carolina – Revolutionary War – Revolutionary War rolls 1775-1783
South Carolina – Revolutionary War – South Carolina colonial soldiers and patriots
South Carolina – Revolutionary War – South Carolina lineages of Revolutionary War regiments
South Carolina – Revolutionary War – South Carolina Revolutionary War records
South Carolina – Revolutionary War – Accounts audited of claims growing out of the Revolution in South Carolina: alphabetical name index
South Carolina – Revolutionary War – Combined alphabetical index, 1695-1925 : consolidated index & spindex
South Carolina – Revolutionary War – Journal of the commissioners of the navy of South Carolina, October 19, 1776-March 1, 1779; July 22, 1779-March 23, 1780
South Carolina – Revolutionary War – Abbeville District, South Carolina pensions
South Carolina – Revolutionary War – Abstract of pensions of South Carolina soldiers of the Revolutionary War, War of 1812 and Indian wars
South Carolina – Revolutionary War – South Carolina Revolutionary War records
South Carolina – Revolutionary War – Accounts audited of claims growing out of the Revolution in South Carolina
South Carolina – Revolutionary War – Accounts audited of revolutionary claims against South Carolina
South Carolina – Revolutionary War – The Battle of Cowpens : a documented narrative & troop movement maps
South Carolina – Revolutionary War – Colonial and revolutionary history of upper South Carolina : embracing for the most part the primitive and colonial history of the territory comprising the original county of Spartanburg with a general review of the entire military operations in the upper portion of South Carolina and portions of North Carolina
South Carolina – Revolutionary War – Copy of the original index book showing the Revolutionary claims filed in South Carolina between August 20, 1783 and August 31, 1786 : kept by James McCall, auditor general
South Carolina – Revolutionary War – Heroes of the old Camden district, South Carolina, 1776-1861 : an address to the survivors of Fairfield County, delivered at Winnsboro, S.C., September 1st, 1888
South Carolina – Revolutionary War – The history of South Carolina from its first European discovery to its erection into a republic : with a supplementary book, bringing the narrative down to the present time
South Carolina – Revolutionary War – The history of South Carolina in the revolution, 1775-1780
South Carolina – Revolutionary War – The history of South Carolina in the revolution, 1780-1783
South Carolina – Revolutionary War – Journal of the commissioners of the navy of South Carolina, October 19, 1776-March 1, 1779; July 22, 1779-March 23, 1780
South Carolina – Revolutionary War – Kings Mountain National Military Park, South Carolina
South Carolina – Revolutionary War – Loyalists in South Carolina
South Carolina – Revolutionary War – Report on the management of the estates sequestered in South Carolina, by order of Lord Cornwallis, in 1780-1782
South Carolina – Revolutionary War – South-Carolina in the Revolutionary War : being a reply to certain misrepresentations and mistakes of recent writers in relation to the course and conduct of this state
South Carolina – Revolutionary War – Traditions and reminiscences chiefly of the American Revolution in the South : including biographical sketches, incidents and anecdotes, few of which have been published, particularly of residents in the upper country
South Carolina – Revolutionary War – Traditions and reminiscences, chiefly of the American revolution in the South : including biographical sketches, incidents, and anecdotes, few of which have been published, particularly of residents in the upper country
South Carolina – Revolutionary War – Christopher Gadsden
South Carolina – Revolutionary War – Col. William Hill’s memoirs of the revolution
South Carolina – Revolutionary War – Documentary history of the American Revolution : consisting of letters and papers relateing to the contest for liberty chiefly in South Carolina
South Carolina – Revolutionary War – Documents relating to the history of South Carolina during the Revolutionary War
US – War of 1812 – Index to compiled service records of volunteer soldiers who served during the War of 1812 in organizations from the state of South Carolina
South Carolina – War of 1812 – Abbeville District, South Carolina pensions
South Carolina – War of 1812 – Abstract of pensions of South Carolina soldiers of the Revolutionary War, War of 1812 and Indian wars
South Carolina – War of 1812 – South Carolina pension abstracts of the Revolutionary War, War of 1812, and Indian Wars
US – Mexican-American War – United States Mexican War Index and Service Records, 1846-1848, index & images
US – Mexican-American War – United States Mexican War Pension Index, 1887-1926, index & images
US – Civil War – United States Records of Headstones of Deceased Union Veterans, 1879-1903, index & images
US – Civil War – United States Civil War Confederate Applications for Pardons, 1865-1867, index links to images
US – Civil War – United States Civil War Confederate Papers of Citizens or Businesses, 1861-1865, index links to images
US – Civil War – United States Civil War Soldiers Index, 1861-1865, index links to images
US – Civil War – United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861-1917, index links to images
South Carolina – Civil War – South Carolina, Confederate Home Records, 1909-1958, index & images
South Carolina – Civil War – South Carolina Civil War Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, 1861-1865, index links to images
South Carolina – Civil War – Applications for the Home for Confederate Veterans, Columbia, South Carolina, ca. 1909-1958
South Carolina – Civil War – Artificial limb vouchers for Confederate service (South Carolina), 1867-1869, 1880-1887
South Carolina – Civil War – Company K, Fourteenth South Carolina Volunteers
South Carolina – Civil War – Compiled service records of Confederate soldiers who served in organizations from the state of South Carolina
South Carolina – Civil War – Confederate service record, out of state, South Carolina, 1861-1865
South Carolina – Civil War – Confederate soldiers service records
South Carolina – Civil War – Lewis Tarlton Williams : one of the boys in gray
South Carolina – Civil War – South Carolina Civil War service records of Confederate soldiers, 1861-1865
South Carolina – Civil War – South Carolina state pension list of confederate veterans for 1921
South Carolina – Civil War – South Carolina troops in Confederate service
South Carolina – Civil War – South Carolina, Confederate home records, 1909-1958
South Carolina – Civil War – Index to compiled service records of Confederate soldiers who served in organizations from the state of South Carolina
South Carolina – Civil War – South Carolina Civil War service records of Confederate soldiers, 1861-1865
South Carolina – Civil War – South Carolina, Confederate home records, 1909-1958
South Carolina – Civil War – Henderson Co., North Carolina Civil War pension records, 1861-1939
South Carolina – Civil War – Record of examinations by Board of United States Examining Surgeons, 1911-1927
South Carolina – Civil War – South Carolina Civil War pension applications, 1888-1906
South Carolina – Civil War – South Carolina pension rolls & some applications for pension, 1888-1894, 1898, 1903
South Carolina – Civil War – Heroes of the old Camden district, South Carolina, 1776-1861 : an address to the survivors of Fairfield County, delivered at Winnsboro, S.C., September 1st, 1888
South Carolina – Civil War – The knightly soldier : a biography of Major Henry Ward Camp, Tenth Conn. vols
South Carolina – Civil War – The story of one regiment : the Eleventh Maine Infantry Volunteers in the war of the rebellion
South Carolina – Civil War – The sword of honor : a story of the Civil War
South Carolina – Civil War – Butler and his cavalry in the War of Secession, 1861-1865
South Carolina – Civil War – Led on! : step by step; scenes from clerical, military educational, and plantation life in the south, 1828-1898; an autobiography
South Carolina – Civil War – Butler and his cavalry in the War of Secession, 1861-1865
South Carolina – Civil War – Co. J : 4th South Carolina infantry at the first battle of Manassas
South Carolina – Civil War – Company K, Fourteenth South Carolina Volunteers
South Carolina – Civil War – The history of a brigade of South Carolinians, known first as Gregg’s brigade and subsequently as McGowan’s brigade
South Carolina – Civil War – Sketch of the Darlington Guards
South Carolina – Civil War – South Carolina troops in Confederate service
US – Indian Wars – United States Index to Indian Wars Pension Files, 1892-1926, index & images
US – World War I – United States, World War I American Expeditionary Forces Deaths, 1917-1919, index links to images
US – World War I – United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, index links to images
South Carolina – World War I – South Carolina, World War I American Expeditionary Forces, deaths
South Carolina – World War I – South Carolina, World War I Selective Service System draft registration cards, 1917-1918
US – World War II – United States World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946, index
US – World War II – United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942, index & images
US – Veterans, Enlistments, Pensions – United States Old War Pension Index, 1815-1926, index & images
US – Veterans, Enlistments, Pensions – Abbeville District, South Carolina pensions
South Carolina – Veterans, Enlistments, Pensions – South Carolina pension abstracts of the Revolutionary War, War of 1812, and Indian Wars
South Carolina Military Records online at the County level
Abbeville County – Military Records – Civil War, 1861-1865 – County Enrollment Book [of] Confederate Veterans; List of Widows, 1929, at FS
Abbeville County – Military Records – Revolution, 1775-1783 – Pensions – Abbeville District, South Carolina Pensions, at FS
Abbeville County – Military History – Revolution, 1775-1783 – Revolutionary War Soldiers and Other Patriotic Records of Abbeville County, South Carolina, at FS
Aiken County – Military Records – Naturalization Records, Orangeburg, 1938-1955, at FS
Aiken County – Military Records – Revolution, 1775-1783 – Pensions – Abbeville District, South Carolina Pensions, at FS
Aiken County – Military Records – World War, 1914-1918 – Naturalization Petitions, Columbia, 1908-1965 ; Index Cards, at FS
Anderson County – Military Records – Civil War, 1861-1865 – Enrollment Book of Confederate Soldiers, Anderson County, South Carolina, at FS
Anderson County – Military Records – Civil War, 1861-1865 – Pensions – Confederate Veterans and Widows Applications for Pensions, 1916-1956, at FS
Anderson County – Military Records – Revolution, 1775-1783 – Pensions – Abbeville District, South Carolina Pensions, at FS
Barnwell County – Military Records – Manning Collection, Barnwell County, South Carolina Records, 1717-1965, at FS
Barnwell County – Military Records – Revolution, 1775-1783 – Pensions – Abbeville District, South Carolina Pensions, at FS
Beaufort County – Military Records – Revolution, 1775-1783 – Pensions – Abbeville District, South Carolina Pensions, at FS
Berkeley County – Military Records – Revolution, 1775-1783 – Pensions – Abbeville District, South Carolina Pensions, at FS
Charleston County – Military Records – Civil War, 1861-1865 – Pensions – Confederate Soldiers and Widows Pension Rolls, 1916-1959, at FS
Charleston County – Military Records – Revolution, 1775-1783 – Pensions – Abbeville District, South Carolina Pensions, at FS
Charleston County – Military Records – World War, 1914-1918 – Naturalization Petitions, Columbia, 1908-1965 ; Index Cards, at FS
Chester County – Military Records – Civil War, 1861-1865 – Enrollment Book Confederate Veterans, 1861-1865, at FS
Chester County – Military Records – Civil War, 1861-1865 – Old Catholic Presbyterian Church, Chester County, South Carolina, Cemetery Inscriptions, at FS
Chester County – Military Records – Revolution, 1775-1783 – Old Catholic Presbyterian Church, Chester County, South Carolina, Cemetery Inscriptions, at FS
Edgefield County – Military Records – Civil War, 1861-1865 – Returns, 1862-1863, at FS
Edgefield County – Military Records – Civil War, 1861-1865 – Pensions – Confederate Veterans and Their Widows Pension Records, 1919-1924, at FS
Fairfield County – Military Records – Civil War, 1861-1865 – Pensions – Pension Records of Confederate Veterans and Their Widows, 1889-1891, at FS
Fairfield County – Military Records – Pensions – Pension Lists for Fairfield County, South Carolina, 1919, 1930, 1940-1943, at FS
Florence County – Military Records – World War, 1914-1918 – Naturalization Petitions, Columbia, 1908-1965 ; Index Cards, at FS
Greenville County – Military Records – Joseph Wood, War of 1812 Soldier, at FS
Greenville County – Military Records – Naturalization Records, Greenville, South Carolina, 1910-1965, at FS
Lancaster County – Military Records – Civil War, 1861-1865 – Confederate Veteran Enrollment Book, at FS
Laurens County – Military Records – Civil War, 1861-1865 – Enrollment Book of Confederate Veterans, 1862-early 1900’s., at FS
Laurens County – Military Records – Pensions – Civil War, 1861-1865 – Confederate Pension Roll and Record, 1898, 1933-1968, at FS
Laurens County – Military Records – Pensions – Revolution, 1775-1783 – Revolutionary War Pension Applications, 1820-1830, at FS
Lexington County – Military Records – Civil War, 1861-1865 – Confederate Pension and Veterans Records, 1861-1948, at FS
Marion County – Military Records – Civil War, 1861-1865 – A History of Marion County, South Carolina : from Its Earliest Times to the Present, 1901, at FS
Marion County – Military Records – Civil War, 1861-1865 – A History of Marion County, South Carolina : from Its Earliest Times to the Present, 1901, at FS
Newberry County – Military Records – Civil War, 1861-1865 – The Annals of Newberry in Two Parts, at FS
Newberry County – Military Records – Civil War, 1861-1865 – The Annals of Newberry in Two Parts, at FS
Orangeburg County – Military Records – World War, 1914-1918 – Naturalization Records, Orangeburg, 1938-1955, at FS
Pickens County – Military Records – Civil War, 1861-1865 – Pensions, at FS
Spartanburg County – Military Records – History of Spartanburg County : Embracing an Account of Many Important Events and Biographical Sketches of Statesmen, Divines and Other Public Men, and the Names of Many Others Worthy of Record in the History of Their County, at FS
Spartanburg County – Military Records – History of Spartanburg County : Embracing an Account of Many Important Events and Biographical Sketches of Statesmen, Divines and Other Public Men, and the Names of Many Others Worthy of Record in the History of Their County, at FS
Spartanburg County – Military Records – History of Spartanburg County, Embracing an Account of Many Important Events and Biographical Sketches of Statesmen, Divines and Other Public Men and the Names of Many Others Worthy of Record in the History of Their County, at FS
Spartanburg County – Military Records – Pensions – Civil War, 1861-1865 – Confederate Pension Records, 1889, 1896, 1916-1935, at FS
Sumter County – Military Records – Discharge Records of World War I and II, Army and Navy, 1924-1953, at FS
Union County – Military Records – Civil War, 1861-1865 – Register of Confederate Soldiers, 1861-1865, at FS
Union County – Military Records – Civil War, 1861-1865 – Pensions – Confederate Veterans and Widows Pension Applications, 1919-1920, at FS
Williamsburg County – Military Records – Civil War, 1861-1865 – Williamsburg County Confederate Enlistment Records, 1862-1864, at FS
Williamsburg County – Military Records – Civil War, 1861-1865 – Pensions – Williamsburg County Record of Confederate Pensioners, 1905-1911, at FS
York County – Military Records – Civil War, 1861-1865 – Confederate Veterans Enrollment Book, 1902, at FS
York County – Military Records – Civil War, 1861-1865 – Papers, 1862-1863, at FS
York County – Military Records – Civil War, 1861-1865 – Petitions, 1861-1865, at FS
York County – Military Records – Civil War, 1861-1865 – Register of Confederate Soldiers, 1861-1865, at FS
York County – Military Records – Civil War, 1861-1865 – Supplement to Confederate Veterans Enrollment Book of York County, S. C., 1902 : Additional Information About Some of the Veterans (the Index in the Confederate Veterans Enrollment Book May Be Used for This Supplement), at FS
York County – Military Records – Pensions – Civil War, 1861-1865 – Confederate Pension Record, 1896-1964, at FS
York County – Military History – Revolution, 1775-1783 – Battle of King’s Mountain, South Carolina, Oct. 7, 1780 : Memorial Addresses, at FS
York County – Military History – Revolution, 1775-1783 – Calendar of the Tennessee and King’s Mountain Papers of the Draper Collections of Manuscripts, at FS
York County – Military History – Revolution, 1775-1783 – King’s Mountain and Its Heroes : History of the Battle of King’s Mountain, October 7th, 1780 and the Events Which Led to It, at FS
York County – Military History – Revolution, 1775-1783 – Indexes – Index to Section One of King’s Mountain Men, at FS
South Carolina Military Records online at the City level
Charleston – Military History – Civil War, 1861-1865 – The Battle of Fort Sumter and First Victory of the Southern Troops, April 13th, 1861 : Full Accounts of the Bombardment, with Sketches of the Scenes, Incidents, Etc, at FS
Charleston – Military History – Civil War, 1861-1865 – The Defense of Charleston Harbor : Including Fort Sumter and the Adjacent Islands, 1863-1865, at FS
Charleston – Military History – Revolution, 1775-1783 – A Chapter of South Carolina Constitutional History, at FS
Charleston – Military Records – World War, 1914-1918 – Military Petitions, Charleston, South Carolina, 1918-1924, at FS
Columbia – Military Records – Civil War, 1861-1865 – Inmates Record, Confederate Infirmary, Columbia, S.C., 1909-1958, at FS
Columbia – Military Records – Naturalization Records, Greenville, South Carolina, 1910-1965, at FS
Columbia – Military Records – World War, 1914-1918 – Military Petitions, Columbia, South Carolina, 1918, at FS
Hamburg – Military History – An Address to the People of the United States, at FS
Hilton Head Island – Military Records – Civil War, 1861-1865 – Selected Records of the War Department Relating to Confederate Prisoners of War, 1861-1865 : NARA Record Group 109, at FS
Parris Island – Military History – Periodicals – Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island, South Carolina, at FS
Spartanburg County – History – Colonial Period, Ca. 1600-1775 – Colonial and Revolutionary History of Upper South Carolina : Embracing for the Most Part the Primitive and Colonial History of the Territory Comprising the Original County of Spartanburg with a General Review of the Entire Military Operations in the Upper Portion of South Carolina and Portions of North Carolina, at FS
Spartanburg County – History – Colonial Period, Ca. 1600-1775 – The Murders of John Wood and Lieutenant-Governor James Wood, at FS
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