This is a list of Wisconsin Military Records online and may include rosters of people who served or were eligible to serve, service records for those who served in a military force, bounty land offered to those who served, pension records or veteran benefits, and more.
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- I – Interment
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- UWML – University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries, at FS
- WHS – Wisconsin Historical Society, at FS
US Military Records online with possible Wisconsin records
US – United States Records of Headstones of Deceased Union Veterans, 1879-1903, index & images, at FS
US – United States, Burial Registers for Military Posts, Camps, and Stations,1768-1921, index & images, at FS
US – Poor house/Soldier homes – United States National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, 1866-1938, index & images, at FS
US – Military – United States Headstone Applications for U.S. Military Veterans, 1925-1949, index & images, at FS
US – Military – United States Muster Rolls of the Marine Corps, 1798-1937, index & images, at FS
US – Military – United States Naval Enlistment Rendezvous, 1855-1891, index & images, at FS
US – Military – United States Old War Pension Index, 1815-1926, index & images, at FS
US – Military – United States Records of Headstones of Deceased Union Veterans, 1879-1903, index & images, at FS
US – Military – United States Headstone Applications for U.S. Military Veterans, 1925-1949, index & images, at FS
US – Military – United States Registers of Enlistments in the U.S. Army, 1798-1914, index & images, at FS
US – Military – United States, Veterans Administration Master Index, 1917-1940, index links to images, at FS
US – Military – United States Casualties of Army Personnel, Dependents and Civilian Employees, 1961-1981, index, at FS
US – U.S. Veterans Burial Sites, 1775 – 2013, at MH $
US – Military Records by DistantCousin Genealogy, at MH $
US – Revolutionary War Pension Records, at MH $
US – U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861 – 1865, at MH $
US – Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, at MH $
US – World War II Reserve Corps Records, at MH $
US – US World War II Prisoners of War, 1941 – 1946, at MH $
US – U.S. World War II Army Enlistment, at MH $
US – Korean War Casualties, 1950 – 1957, at MH $
US – Vietnam Casualties, 1956 – 1998, at MH $
US – U.S. World War II Army Enlistment, at MH $
US – U.S. Army Casualties 1961 – 1981, at MH $
US – Dictionary of All Officers in the Army of the United States, 1789 – 1853, at MH $
US – see Army at US Genealogy Records Online at MyHeritage, at MH $
US – United States Naval Enlistment Rendezvous, 1855-1891, at MH $
US – see Navy at US Genealogy Records Online at MyHeritage, at MH $
US – see Air Force at US Genealogy Records Online at MyHeritage, at MH $
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 – Revolutionary War, 1775-1783 – United States Revolutionary War, Virginia Pension Application Files, 1830-1875, 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 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
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 – Civil War messages and proclamations of Wisconsin war governors, at FS
US – Indian Wars – United States Index to Indian Wars Pension Files, 1892-1926, index & images, at FS
US – World War I – United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, index & images, 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
US – Korean War – United States Korean War Dead and Army Wounded, 1950-1953, index, at FS
Wisconsin Military Records online
Wisconsin – Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, War of the Rebellion, 1861 – 1865, Volume 2, at MH $
Wisconsin – Wisconsin Volunteers, War of the Rebellion, 1861 – 1865, at MH $
Wisconsin – Story of the Service of Company E and the Twelfth Wisconsin Regiment, Veteran Volunteer Infantry, In the War of the Rebellion, at MH $
Wisconsin – Military Records – Purchasing copies of Civil War Regimental Muster and Descriptive Rolls, at WHS
Wisconsin – Military Records – Wisconsin in the Civil War (censuses and roster), at WHS
Wisconsin – Military Records – GI Press Collection – This collections contains page images and searchable text of 2,400 periodicals and other items such as pamphlets and posters created by or for U.S. military personnel during the Vietnam War era., at WHS
Wisconsin – Military Records – Wisconsin in the Civil War – Over 25,000 pages of original documents including soldiers’ letters, diaries, and memoirs; regimental histories and rosters; photographs, maps, biographies and battle summaries., at WHS
Wisconsin – Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin (history, church, military, vital records, Native American), at FS
Wisconsin – Military Records – Iowa, Grand Army of the Republic Membership Records, 1861-1949, index & images, at FS
Wisconsin – Military Records – Iowa, Records of Persons Subject to Military Duty, 1862-1910, index links to images, at FS
Wisconsin – Military Records – Annual report of the Adjutant General of the state of Wisconsin, at FS
Wisconsin – Military Records – Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, at FS
Wisconsin – Military Records – Soldiers’ and citizens’ album of biographical record, containing personal sketches of army men and citizens prominent in loyalty of the Union : also a chronological and statistical history of the civil war, and a history of the Grand army of the republic,, at FS
Wisconsin – Military Records – The Territorial papers of the United States; the territory of Wisconsin, 1836-1848 : a microfilm supplement, at FS
Wisconsin – Military Records – Wisconsin’s gold star list : soldiers, sailors, marines, and nurses from the Badger State who died in the federal service during the World War, at FS
Wisconsin – Civil War – Wisconsin in the Civil War : report of the “Commission for the purpose of devision a plan to provide for the preparation of the history of Wisconsin soldiers in the civil war,” acting under the provisions of Chapter 298, Laws of 1905, at FS
Wisconsin – Civil War – Wisconsin women in the war between the states, at FS
Wisconsin – Civil War – An artillery man’s diary, at FS
Wisconsin – Civil War – Civil War letters, 1861 to 1865 : written by a boy in blue to his mother, at FS
Wisconsin – Civil War – The papers of James S Anderson, at FS
Wisconsin – Civil War – An artillery man’s diary, at FS
Wisconsin – Civil War – Battle fields and camp fires of the Thirty-eighth : an authentic narrative and record of the organization of the Thirty-eighth Regiment of Wis. Vol. Inf’y, and the part taken by it in the late war, at FS
Wisconsin – Civil War – The sword and gun, a history of the 37th Wis. Volunteer Infantry : from its first organization to its final muster out., at FS
Wisconsin – Civil War – The Thirty-Sixth Wisconsin volunteer infantry : an authentic record of the regiment from its organization to its muster out. A complete roster of its officers and men with their record. … with reminiscences from the author’s private journal, at FS
Wisconsin – Civil War – Wisconsin at Vicksburg : the story of the campaign and seige of Vicksburg in 1863, at FS
Wisconsin – Civil War – Captain Edward Gee Miller of the 20th Wisconsin, his war, 1862-1865, at FS
Wisconsin – Civil War – Annual report of the adjutant general of the state of Wisconsin for the year ending December 30th, 1865, at FS
Wisconsin – Civil War – Captain Edward Gee Miller of the 20th Wisconsin, his war, 1862-1865, at FS
Wisconsin – Civil War – Military records, 1861-1865, at FS
Wisconsin – Civil War – Roster of Wisconsin volunteers, war of the rebellion, 1861-1865, at FS
Wisconsin – Civil War – The Thirty-Sixth Wisconsin volunteer infantry : an authentic record of the regiment from its organization to its muster out. A complete roster of its officers and men with their record. … with reminiscences from the author’s private journal, at FS
Wisconsin – Civil War – Wisconsin census enumeration 1895 : names of ex-soldiers and sailors residing in Wisconsin, June 20, 1895, at FS
Wisconsin – Civil War – Wisconsin Civil War soldiers buried at Vicksburg National Cemetery, Vicksburg, Mississippi, at FS
Wisconsin – Civil War – Wisconsin state census, 1885, at FS
Wisconsin – Civil War – Index to compiled service records of volunteer Union soldiers who served in organizations from the state of Wisconsin, at FS
Wisconsin – World War I – Wisconsin, World War I American Expeditionary Forces, deaths, 1917-1919, at FS
Wisconsin – World War I – Wisconsin, World War I Selective Service System draft registration cards, 1917-1918, at FS
Wisconsin – World War II – Service record book of men and women of Oregon, Wisconsin & community, at FS
Wisconsin – World War II – Wisconsin Selective Service System registration cards [World War II] : fourth registration, 1942, at FS
Wisconsin – Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin(history, church, military, vital records, Native American), at FS
County level Wisconsin military records online
Bayfield County – Military Records – Honor Roll Album of Bayfield County Men and Women Who Served in World War II, at FS
Dane County – Military Records – Dane County (Wis.) War History, 1918, at FS
Fond Du Lac County – Biography – Incidents and Anecdotes of Early Days and History of Business in the City and County of Fond Du Lac from Early Times to the Present : Personal Reminiscences, Remarkable Events, Election Results, Military History, Etc, at FS
Jackson County – Military Records – Jackson County Veterans, at FS
Kewaunee County – Military Records – An Honor Roll : Containing a Pictorial Record of the Gallant and Courageous Men from Kewaunee County, Wisconsin, U.S.A. Who Served in the Great War, 1917-1918-1919, at FS
Kewaunee County – Military Records – William Fagg Diaries, 1850-1898, at FS
Racine County – Military Records – Civil War, 1861-1865 – Racine County Militant : an Illustrated Narrative of War Times, and a Soldiers’ Roster, at FS
Racine County – Military Records – Racine County in the World War : a History, at FS
Sauk County – Military Records – Draft Registration, World War I, 1917, at FS
Sauk County – Military History – Civil War, 1861-1865 – Regimental Histories – History of the Sauk County Riflemen Known As Company “A” Sixth Wisconsin Veteran Volunteer Infantry, 1861-1865, at FS
Sheboygan County – Military Records – World War, 1914-1918 – Roster, Sheboygan County, at FS
Sheboygan County – Military Records – World War, 1914-1918 – War History, 1918, at FS
Vernon County – Military Records – World War, 1914-1918 – Vernon County War History, 1918, at FS
Washburn County – Military Records – Card Index of Veteran’s Graves in Cemeteries in Washburn County, Wisconsin, at FS
Washington County – Military Records – Registers of Veterans at the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Northwestern Branch in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1867-1934, at FS
Waukesha County – Military Records – Veteran and Soldier Military Records, WCWG
Wood County – Military Records – Wood County and Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, Military Record Indexes, 1863-1895, at FS
City level Wisconsin military records online
Delafield – School Yearbooks – The Trumpeter, St. John’s Military Academy (Delafield, Wisconsin)
Fond Du Lac – Military Records – Incidents and Anecdotes of Early Days and History of Business in the City and County of Fond Du Lac from Early Times to the Present : Personal Reminiscences, Remarkable Events, Election Results, Military History, Etc, at FS
Milwaukee – Military Records – Registers of Veterans at the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Northwestern Branch in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1867-1934, at FS
Wisconsin Rapids – Military Records – Wood County and Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, Military Record Indexes, 1863-1895, at FS
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