This is a list of South Dakota 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 South Dakota 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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South Dakota Military Records online at the Federal and State level

US – Military Records – United States General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934, index & images

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 Old War Pension Index, 1815-1926, index & 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

US – Military Records – United States Casualties of Army Personnel, Dependents and Civilian Employees, 1961-1981, index

US – Military Records – United States Headstone Applications for U.S. Military Veterans, 1925-1949, index & images

US – Military Records – United States Records of Headstones of Deceased Union Veterans, 1879-1903, index & images

US – Military Records – United States, Burial Registers for Military Posts, Camps, and Stations,1768-1921, index & images

US – Military Records – United States, Cemetery Abstracts, 1949-1969, index links to images

South Dakota – Military Records – South Dakota, Grave Registration Records, 1940-1941, index links to images

South Dakota – Military Records – South Dakota, Veteran Graves Registration Records, 1940-1941, index links to images

South Dakota – Military Records – Indians in military service, 1918-1940

South Dakota – Military Records – Military records, 1944-1945

South Dakota – Military Records – South Dakota graves registration service; field data–veterans

US – Revolutionary War, 1775-1783 – United States Revolutionary War Pension Payment Ledgers, 1818-1872, index & images

US – Revolutionary War, 1775-1783 – United States Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors, 1775-1783, index & images

US – Revolutionary War, 1775-1783 – United States Revolutionary War, Virginia Pension Application Files, 1830-1875

US – Mexican-American War, 1846-1848 – United States Mexican War Index and Service Records, 1846-1848, index & images

US – Mexican-American War, 1846-1848 – United States Mexican War Pension Index, 1887-1926, index & 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 and Later Pension Index, 1861-1917, index links to images

South Dakota – Civil War – South Dakota, Grand Army of the Republic Membership Records, 1861-1941, index & images

South Dakota – Civil War – Dakota Territory Civil War Service Records of Union Soldiers, 1861-1865, index links to images

South Dakota – Civil War – Grand Army of the Republic (South Dakota) collection

South Dakota – Civil War – South Dakota, Grand Army of the Republic membership records, 1861-1941

South Dakota – Civil War – Index to compiled service records of volunteer Union soldiers who served in organizations from the territory of Dakota

South Dakota – Civil War – South Dakota, Grand Army of the Republic membership records, 1861-1941

South Dakota – Civil War – Grand Army of the Republic (South Dakota) collection

South Dakota – Civil War – South Dakota, Grand Army of the Republic membership records, 1861-1941

US – Civil War – United States Union Provost Marshal Files of Individual Civilians, 1861-1866

US – Civil War – United States Union Provost Marshal Files of Two or More Civilians, 1861-1866

US – Civil War – United States Confederate Navy and Marine Service Records, 1861-1865

US – Civil War – United States Records of Confederate Prisoners of War, 1861-1865

US – Indian Wars – United States Index to Indian Wars Pension Files, 1892-1926, index & images

US – World War I – United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, index & images

US – World War I – United States, World War I American Expeditionary Forces Deaths, 1917-1919, index links to images

South Dakota – World War I – South Dakota, World War I American Expeditionary Forces, deaths, 1917-1919

South Dakota – World War I – South Dakota, World War I Selective Service System draft registration cards, 1917-1918

South Dakota – World War I – The Black Hills South Dakota in the World War, 1917-1918-1919

South Dakota – World War I – Grant County, South Dakota, in the World War : 1917-1918-1919

South Dakota – 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

South Dakota – World War II – South Dakota, military records : World War II 4th draft registration cards, 1942

South Dakota – World War II – South Dakota in World War II : an account of the various activities of the people of South Dakota during the period of World War II, both in South Dakota and where South Dakotans and South Dakota units were active throughout the world

 

 

 

South Dakota Military Records online at the County level

Brookings County – Military Records – Record of Veterans Buried in Brookings County, at FS

Fall River County – Military Records – South Dakota, Fall River County, State Soldiers Home Records, 1889–1977, at FS

Jones County – Military Records – World War, 1914-1918 – Service Record Book of Men and Women of Jones County, World War I and II Veterans, at FS

Jones County – Military Records – World War, 1939-1945 – Service Record Book of Men and Women of Jones County, World War I and II Veterans, at FS

Lincoln County – Military Records – World War, 1914-1918 – Service Record Book of Men and Women of Hudson & Fairview Communities, at FS

Lincoln County – Military Records – World War, 1939-1945 – Service Record Book of Men and Women of Hudson & Fairview Communities, at FS

 

 

 

South Dakota Military Records online at the City level

Hot Springs – Military Records – Registers of Veterans at the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers at Battle Mountain in Hot Springs, South Dakota, 1907-1934, at FS

Hot Springs – Military Records – State Soldiers’ Home, Case Book, at FS

Hot Springs – Military Records – State Soldiers’ Home, Death Register, 1890-1977, at FS

Hot Springs – Military Records – State Soldiers’ Home, Record of Board Meetings, 1885-1905 and 1911-1955, at FS

McLaughlin – Military Records – Service Record of Men and Women of McLaughlin, So. Dakota and Community, at FS

McLaughlin – World War, 1914-1918 – Service Record of Men and Women of McLaughlin, So. Dakota and Community, at FS

McLaughlin – World War, 1939-1945 – Service Record of Men and Women of McLaughlin, So. Dakota and Community, at FS

 

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