This is a list of Washington DC 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 Washington DC 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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Washington DC Military Records online
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 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 Registers of Enlistments in the U.S. Army, 1798-1914, index & images
US – Military Records – United States Casualties of Army Personnel, Dependents and Civilian Employees, 1961-1981, index
US – Military Records – Pensions – United States Old War Pension Index, 1815-1926, index & images
US – Military Records – Pensions – United States Revolutionary War Pension Payment Ledgers, 1818-1872, index & images
US – Military Records – Pensions – United States Index to Indian Wars Pension Files, 1892-1926, index & images
US – Military History – The Grant memorial in Washington
US – Military History – U.S. Soldiers’ Home, Washington, D.C. : indelible photographs
US – Military Records – History of the “Soldier’s home,” Washington, D.C. : with many facsimiles of official documents and letters
US – Military Records – Records of the assistant commissioner for the District of Columbia, 1865-1869 : NARA, RG105, M1055
US – Military Records – Records of the Superintendent of Education for the District of Columbia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872 : NARA, RG105, M1056
US – Military Records – Roll of Captain Francis Asbury Dickins’ Company of infantry in the 2nd and 3rd regiments, Militia of the District of Columbia, 1828-1832
US – Revolutionary War, 1775-1783 – United States Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors, 1775-1783, index & images
US – Revolutionary War, 1775-1783 – Yearbook of the District of Columbia Society, Sons of the American Revolution
US – Revolutionary War, 1775-1783 – United States Revolutionary War, Virginia Pension Application Files, 1830-1875, image
US – Revolutionary War, 1775-1783 – United States Revolutionary War Pension Payment Ledgers, 1818-1872, index & images
US – Revolutionary War, 1775-1783 – United States General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934, index & images
DC – Revolutionary War, 1775-1783 – Revolutionary, War of 1812 & Indian wars pensioner list of Washington, D.C. and Alexandria, Virginia
US – Indian Wars – United States Index to Indian Wars Pension Files, 1892-1926, index & images
DC – Indian Wars – Revolutionary, War of 1812 & Indian wars pensioner list of Washington, D.C. and Alexandria, Virginia
DC – War of 1812 – Revolutionary, War of 1812 & Indian wars pensioner list of Washington, D.C. and Alexandria, Virginia
US – Mexican War – United States Mexican War Index and Service Records, 1846-1848, index & images
US – Mexican 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 Confederate Navy and Marine Service Records, 1861-1865, images
US – Civil War – United States Records of Confederate Prisoners of War, 1861-1865, images
US – Civil War – Selected records of the War Department relating to Confederate prisoners of war, 1861-1865 : NARA Record Group 109
US – Civil War – Confederate pension applications, Virginia, acts of 1888, 1900, 1902 ; index, 1888-1934
US – Civil War – A journal of incidents connected with the travels of the Twenty-second Regiment Conn. Volunteers, for nine months, in verse
US – Civil War – History of the First Maine Cavalry, 1861-1865
US – Civil War – United States Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War, 1890, index & images
US – Civil War, 1861-1865 – United States Civil War Confederate Papers of Citizens or Businesses, 1861-1865, index & images
US – Civil War, 1861-1865 – United States Civil War Soldiers Index, 1861-1865, index
US – Civil War, 1861-1865 – United States Civil War Widows and Other Dependents Pension Files, 1861-1934, index & images
US – Civil War, 1861-1865 – United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861-1917, index & images
US – Civil War, 1861-1865 – United States General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934, index & images
US – Civil War, 1861-1865 – United States Records of Headstones of Deceased Union Veterans, 1879-1903, index & images
US – Civil War, 1861-1865 – United States Register of Confederates and Civilians Who Died in the North,1861-1865, index & images
US – Civil War, 1861-1865 – United States Civil War Confederate Papers of Citizens or Businesses, 1861-1865, index & images
US – Civil War, 1861-1865 – United States Civil War Soldiers Index, 1861-1865, index
US – Civil War, 1861-1865 – United States Civil War Widows and Other Dependents Pension Files, 1861-1934, index & images
US – Civil War, 1861-1865 – United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861-1917, index & images
US – Civil War, 1861-1865 – United States Union Provost Marshal Files of Individual Civilians, 1861-1866, images
US – Civil War, 1861-1865 – United States Union Provost Marshal Files of Two or More Civilians, 1861-1866, images
US – Civil War, 1861-1865 – [District of Columbia] Aqueduct bridge duty register, THL 1352, 1863-1864
US – Civil War, 1861-1865 – Selected records of the War Department relating to Confederate prisoners of war, 1861-1865 : NARA Record Group 109
US – Civil War, 1861-1865 – Index to compiled service records of volunteer Union soldiers who served in organizations from the District of Columbia, index
US – Civil War, 1861-1865 – Confederate pension applications, Virginia, acts of 1888, 1900, 1902 ; index, 1888-1934
DC – Civil War, 1861-1865 – A journal of incidents connected with the travels of the Twenty-second Regiment Conn. Volunteers, for nine months, in verse
DC – Civil War, 1861-1865 – Regimental histories – History of the First Maine Cavalry, 1861-1865
DC – Civil War, 1861-1865 – Regimental histories – United States Confederate Navy and Marine Service Records, 1861-1865, images
DC – Civil War, 1861-1865 – Regimental histories – United States Records of Confederate Prisoners of War, 1861-1865, images
DC – Civil War, 1861-1865 – [District of Columbia] Aqueduct bridge duty register, THL 1352, 1863-1864
DC – Civil War, 1861-1865 – Index to compiled service records of volunteer Union soldiers who served in organizations from the District of Columbia, index
US – World War I, 1914-1918 – United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, index & images
US – World War I, 1914-1918 – United States, Veterans Administration Master Index, 1917-1940, index & images
DC – World War I, 1914-1918 – Washington, World War I Veteran’s Compensation Fund Application Records, 1921-1925, index & images
DC – World War I, 1914-1918 – District of Columbia, World War I American Expeditionary Forces, deaths, 1917-1919
DC – World War I, 1914-1918 – District of Columbia, World War I Selective Service System draft cards, 1917-1918
US – World War II, 1939-1945 – District of Columbia, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945, index & images
US – World War II, 1939-1945 – United States World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946, index
US – World War II, 1939-1945 – United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942, index & images
US – World War II, 1939-1945 – District of Columbia, military records : World War II 4th draft registration cards, 1942
US – World War II, 1939-1945 – District of Columbia, World War II draft registration cards, 1940-1947
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