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Military records are yet another very useful set of records that will help you in finding more about your ancestors. There are a ton of records that are available for free online, and there are some very robust collections (such as Fold3 and Ancestry) that have sizable online military collections as well.
Typically, military records online fall into 5 different categories:
- Military Service Records:
Includes enlistment information, such as location and date enlisted. Also includes demographic information, such as full name, birth date and location, residence, and occupation, plus contact information of next of kin, medical and military information, and unit assignations while in the military. - Selective Service Records:
Includes full name, residence, age, occupation, marital status, birthplace, contact information, physical description, and other information. - Bounty Land Warrant Applications:
Includes similar information as in service records as well as other information. Only used between 1775 and 1855. - Pension Records:
Will include birth, marriage, and death records, demographic information, plus information about the spouse, and possibly children. - Special Records:
May include information if the person was a prisoner of war, was wounded or killed in action. 1910-1940 Census Records include questions about military service. Includes those buried in Veteran’s cemeteries.
A good primer on Military Records is found on FamilySearch’s Military Records page, available on their wiki.
Note: Some links listed take you to a FamilySearch Collection of digital images. Near the bottom of the page under Film/Digital Notes is the name of each sub-collection. If there is a camera icon at the right of the name (in the Format column) then the collections’ images are browsable. If there is a camera with a key icon, it is only available at a Family History Center or affiliated library. If there is a film reel icon, then it is only available in microfilm format, not digital. To take full advantage make sure that you are logged in to FamilySearch. The results may be different if you are signed in, rather than not.
Below, listed by state are links to military records that are available for free online. Included in each state’s page are links to free nationwide collections since there are a sizable number of collections that are available for the entire country.
Georgia Military Records
National
- American Battle Monuments Commission – Korean War Honor Roll
- American Battle Monuments Commission Burials Database
- American Prisoners of War During the Korean War, 1950-1953
- Burial Registers for Military Posts, Camps, and Stations,1768-1921
- Card Register of Burials of Deceased American Soldiers, 1917 – 1922
- Casualties of Army Personnel, Dependents and Civilian Employees, 1961-1981
- Casualties of the Vietnam War, 1956-1998
- Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War, 1890
- Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861-1917
- Civil War Confederate Applications for Pardons, 1865-1867
- Civil War Confederate Papers of Citizens or Businesses, 1861-1865
- Civil War Records of Confederate Nonregiment Soldiers, 1861-1865
- Civil War Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, 1861-1865
- Civil War Service Records of Union Colored Troops, 1863-1865
- Civil War Service Records of Union Soldiers, 1864-1866
- Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Database
- Civil War Soldiers Index, 1861-1865
- Civil War Unfiled Papers of Confederate Soldiers, 1861-1865
- Civil War Widows and Other Dependents Pension Files, 1861-1934
- Compiled Military Service Records Of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served With The Colored Troops, 1861-1866
- Confederate Navy and Marine Service Records, 1861-1865 Images only.
- Confederate Officers Card Index, 1861-1865
- Doughboy MIA Database 1917-1918
- Enlisted and Officer Muster Rolls and Rosters, 1916-1939
- General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934 Index Only.
- Headstone Applications for Military Veterans, 1925-1949
- Index to General Correspondence of the Pension Office, 1889-1904 Index only.
- Index to Indian Wars Pension Files, 1892-1926
- Index to Naturalizations of World War I Soldiers, 1918
- Index to Service Records, War with Spain, 1898
- Japanese Americans Relocated During World War II, 1942-1946
- Japanese Registers of POWs WWII, Index.
- Korean War Battle Deaths, 1950-1957
- Korean War Dead and Army Wounded, 1950-1953
- Korean War POW/MIA List
- Korean War Repatriated Prisoners of War, 1950-1954
- Lists of Fatal Casualties of the Korean War (6/28/1950 – 3/10/1954) and the Vietnam War (6/8/1956 – 5/28/2006)
- Mexican War Index and Service Records, 1846-1848
- Mexican War Pension Index, 1887-1926
- Mexican War Soldiers & Sailors Database
- Military Personnel Who Died During the Vietnam War, 1956-2003
- Mormon Battalion Pension Applications, 1846-1923, Index
- Muster Rolls of the Marine Corps, 1798-1937, Index and Images
- National Archives, Archival Databases, Civil War
- National Archives, Archival Databases, Korean War
- National Archives, Archival Databases, Vietnam War
- National Archives, Archival Databases, World War II
- National Cemetery Administration – Nationwide Gravesite Locator
- National Graves Registration Database
- National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, 1866-1938 Partial Index and Images.
- National Park Service – US Mexican War Soldiers and Sailors Database
- National Society Daughters of 1812 – Ancestor Database
- Naval Enlistment Rendezvous, 1855-1891, Index and Images
- Navy Widows’ Certificates, 1861-1910, Index
- Never Forgotten, Taiwan POW List
- Old War Pension Index, 1815-1926
- Original Mormon Battalion Roster – Mormon Battalion Association
- Pearl Harbor Casualty List
- Prisoners of the First World War
- Records of Confederate Prisoners of War, 1861-1865
- Records of Headstones of Deceased Union Veterans, 1879-1903
- Register of Confederates and Civilians Who Died in the North,1861-1865
- Registers of Enlistments in the Army, 1798-1914
- Remarried Widows Index to Pension Applications, 1887-1942
- Revolutionary War Compiled Service Records, 1775-1783
- Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Applications, 1800-1900
- Revolutionary War Pension Payment Ledgers, 1818-1872
- Revolutionary War Records – Daughters of the American Revolution
- Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783
- Revolutionary War, Virginia Pension Application Files, 1830-1875
- Roster of All Regimental Surgeons and Assistant Surgeons in the Late War, with the Service, and last-known Post-office Address (1882)” Compiled by N. A. Strait. The Text is Searchable.
- Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors, 1775-1783
- Service Personnel Not Recovered Following WWII
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Military Servicemen in World War I Records
- United States French Combatants in the Revolutionary War, 1778-1783
- Veteran’s Administration Master Index, 1917-1940
- Veterans Administration Pension Payment Cards, 1907-1933
- Vietnam Veterans Memorial
- Vietnam War POW/MIA List
- War of 1812 Index to Pension Application Files, 1812-1910
- War of 1812 Index to Service Records, 1812-1815
- War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies
- War Relocation Authority Centers, Final Accountability Rosters, 1942-1946
- World War I American Expeditionary Forces Deaths, 1917-1919
- World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
- World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946
- World War II Casualties for Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard
- World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942
- World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942
- World War II Prisoners of War of the Japanese, 1941-1945
- World War II Prisoners of War, 1941-1945
- WWII Army and Army Air Force Casualties
- YMCA World War I Service Cards, 1917-1919
Georgia
- 1813 Pension List
- 1818 Pension List
- 1820 Pension List
- 1835 Pension Roll
- 1840 Census of Pensioners
- 1883 List of Pensioners on the Roll
- Andersonville Confederate Prison Records, 1864-1865
- Appling County, Confederate Pension Roll, Disabled, Indigent Soldiers 1861-1865 and Soldier Pension Roll under 1910
- Atlanta, Military Petitions, 1918-1924
- Authentic List of All Land Lottery Grants made to Veterans of the Revolutionary War
- Baldwin County, World War I Service Records for Men Who were Appointed or Enlisted, c1914-1918
- Banks County, Confederate Pension Roll, 1892-1903
- Bartow County, Confederate Roster 1861-1865, of Bartow Co., Ga.
- Bartow County, Official Service Records, 1917-1919
- Berrien County, Confederate Pension Roll, 1891-1922
- Bibb County, Confederate Pension Rolls, 1890-1931
- Brooks County, Confederate Pension Roll, 1890-1908
- Bulloch County, Confederate Pension Rolls, 1895-1939
- Bulloch County, Official Service Records of World War I, 1917-1919: Army, Navy, Marine Corps
- Burke County, Confederate Pension Rolls, 1880-1920
- Burke County, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers, 1861-1865
- Burke County, World War I Service Records of Burke County, 1917-1919
- Butts County, Roster of Confederate Soldiers, 1861-1865
- Calhoun County, Pension Records
- Camden County, Applications and Orders for ex-Soldiers to conduct Business 1931-1935
- Camden County, Office Service Records of Army, Navy, Marine Corps, 1917-1919
- Carroll County, Pension Roll of Confederates, 1890-1912
- Chatham County, Confederate Soldiers Pension Roll, 1890-1925
- Chatham County, Confederate Widows and Orphans’ Records
- Chattahoochee County, Confederate Roster, 1860-1865, and Confederate Pension Roll, 1890-1920
- Chattahoochee County, World War I Service Records
- Cherokee County, Confederate Pension Rolls of Disabled Veterans and Widows, 1914-1919
- Cherokee County, Spanish American, World War 1 and 2, Korean Military Records, 1898-1955
- Clarke County, Bonds to Support Families of Confederate Soldiers 1861-1869, and, Discharge Certificates of Confederate Soldiers 1864
- Clarke County, Confederate Pensions, Indigent Soldiers and Widows, 1884-1914
- Clay County, Confederate Pension Records, 1890-1958
- Clayton County, Confederate Pension Rolls, 1890-1927
- Clayton County, Official Service Records, 1917-1919
- Clinch County, Confederate Pension Roll, 1896 – 1920
- Cobb County, Confederate Pensioners of Georgia
- Columbia County, Confederate Pension Records, 1890-1913
- Columbia County, Service Records, 1917-1919, 1943-1967
- Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia
- Confederate Enlistment Oaths and Discharges
- Confederate Muster Rolls
- Confederate Pension Application Supplements
- Confederate Pension Applications
- Coweta County, Confederate Pension Roll, 1890-1941
- Coweta County, List of Old Soldiers and Widows: taken from the Ordinary’s Office
- Crawford County, Confederate Pension Records, 1914-1962
- Dade County, Confederate Roster, 1861; Confederate Pension Roll, 1908-1952; and Confederate Veterans Aid Association Minutes, 1889-1898
- Dawson County, Confederate Pension Rolls, 1890-1920
- Decatur County, Clothing donations for Soldiers in the Confederate Army, 1861-63
- Decatur County, Muster Roll of the First Regiment of Georgia Volunteers, 1861
- DeKalb County, Confederate Veterans Pension Rolls, 1890-1931
- DeKalb County, Minutes and Register of Camp Clement Evans, Confederate Veterans Organization (UVC), 1905-1927
- Dooly County, Confederate Veterans and Widows Pension Records, 1880-1925
- Douglas County, Confederate Pension Roll, 1920-1933
- Early County, Confederate Pensioners, 1890-1920
- Effingham County, Register of Voters, Militia Districts, 1911-1932
- Elbert County, Georgia, Elbert County, Military Records
- Elbert County, List of Militia Officers, 1809-1818
- Elbert County, Widow, and, Indigent, Disabled, or Invalid Soldier Rolls, 1821-1932
- Episcopal Church, Churchmen in Military and Naval Service from the Diocese of Georgia, 1917-1918
- Fayette County, Pension 1861-1949, and, Soldiers’ Roll 1861-1865
- Fayette County, Records of World War I Soldiers, 1918-1932
- Final Revolutionary War Pension Payment Vouchers
- Floyd County, Confederate Soldier Roster, 1861-1865; Pension Rolls, 1890-1940
- Floyd County, List of World War I Veterans and Addresses, 1917-1919
- Floyd County, Official Service Records, World War, 1917-1919
- Franklin County, Confederate Roster, 1862-1865
- Franklin County, Veterans Records of World War I, 1917-1961
- Fulton County, World War I Service Records, 1917-1919
- Georgia Civil War Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, 1861-1865
- Georgia Civil War Service Records of Union Soldiers, 1861-1865
- Georgia Confederate Grave Database
- Georgia Confederate Home Records, 1901-1930
- Georgia Military Records
- Georgia Military Records
- Georgia Military Records, 1775-1842
- Georgia World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945
- Georgia, Andersonville Prison Records, 1862-1865
- Georgia, Confederate Pension Rolls, 1879-1920
- Georgia, Confederate Records
- Georgia, Military Discharge Records, ca.1890 – ca.1966
- Georgia, Reconstruction Registration Oath Books, 1867-1868
- Georgia, World War I American Expeditionary Forces, Deaths, 1917-1919
- Georgia, World War I Memorial Database
- Georgia, World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
- Georgia, World War I, Statement of Service Cards, 1920-1929
- Georgia, Confederate Soldiers Service Records
- Georgia, List of maimed Confederate Soldiers Who lost limbs in the Service and to Whom Payments Have Been made for the Period from 1883 to 1886, 1883-1886
- Gilmer County, Soldiers’ and Widows’ Pension Roll, 1885-1911
- Glascock County, Confederate Pension Roll, 1890-1933
- Glynn County, Confederate Pension Roll, 1914-1924
- Gordon County, Confederate Pension Roll, 1890-1906, 1931-1933
- Gordon County, Confederate Roster, 1861-1864
- Gordon County, World War I Service Records 1917-1919
- Greene County, Pension Roll for Confederate Veterans and their Families, 1861-1864
- Gwinnett County, Confederate Roster, 1861-1865; Confederate Pension Rolls, 1890-1935
- Habersham County, Confederate Service and Pension Records, 1924-1937
- Hancock County, Confederate Soldiers Book, 1893; Soldiers and Widows Pension Rolls, 1890 -1943
- Haralson County, Pensions, 1861-1928
- Haralson County, Record of Soldiers in the World War 1917 to 1919
- Harris County, World War I Service Records, 1917-1919
- Hart County, Confederate Roster and Pension List, 1861-1865, 1921-1926, 1933
- Heard County, Confederate Pension Roll 1920-1937
- Henry County, Confederate Veterans Pension Roll, 1890-1929
- Henry County, World War I Discharges and Veterans’ List
- Houston County, Military Records, 1861-1926
- Index to Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia
- Index to Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia
- Index to Registers of Inmates of the Confederate Soldiers Home of Georgia
- Irwin County, Application for Soldier Pension Records, 1815-1915
- Irwin County, Indigent Confederate Soldiers and Widows, (Transcribed), 1890-1920; Confederate Pension Rolls, 1895-1924
- Jackson County, Confederate Pension Rolls, 1894-1939
- Jackson County, Official Service Records, 1917-1919
- Jasper County, Confederate Veteran Pension Rolls abt. 1897-1906;
- Jefferson County, List of Confederate Veterans, 1893, 1864, 1861; Miscellaneous Pension Records, 1890-1952
- Johnson County, Confederate Roster, 1861-1865; and Confederate Pension Roll, 1890-1929, 1861-1929
- Jones County, Confederate Roster, 1861-1862, and Confederate Pension Rolls, 1890-1944
- Laurens County, Confederate Pension Roll, 1890-1938; Confederate Soldiers Records; and Confederate Soldiers License, 1901-1906
- Lee County, Confederate Pension Records, 1890-1922
- Lee County, Roster of Field Staff and band, 11th Regiment and Company B, Georgia Volunteers
- Liberty County, Civil War Pension Roll
- Lincoln County, Confederate Soldiers Pensions, 1890-1949
- Lincoln County, World War I Soldiers of Lincoln County
- Lowndes County, Confederate Pension Roll, 1910-1928
- Lumpkin County, Official Service Records: Army, Navy, Marine Corps, 1917-1919
- Macon County, Confederate Roster, 1861-1865; Confederate Pension Roll, 1890-1920; and Confederate Muster Roll, 1890-1920
- Macon County, Official World War I Service Records of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps, 1917-1919
- Marion County, Confederate Pension Records, 1890-1948
- Marion County, Relief Committee Book, money and goods provided for Wives and Children of Soldiers of the War, 1861-1865
- Marion County, Tax digest, 1848-1924, incomplete: Includes a Roster of Confederate Soldiers and Widows, 1924
- Marion County, World War I Discharge Records
- McDuffie County, Pension Rolls, 1890-1938
- McIntosh County, Confederate Veteran’s Pension Roll, 1896-1923
- Meriwether County, Confederate Soldiers and Widows; Confederate Pension Rolls, 1896-1956
- Meriwether County, Roster of Confederate Soldiers, No. 1, 1861-1865
- Meriwether County, World War I Registration List, 1918
- Meriwether County, World War I Service Records, 1917-1919
- Military Petitions, 1918-1923
- Militia Enrollment Lists, 1864
- Milton County, Georgia, Confederate Pension Roll, 1911-1929
- Mitchell County, Confederate Pension Roll, 1914-1925: Minutes of Confederate Association, List of Confederate Veterans in Ordinary’s Office, 1889-1897
- Monroe County, Applications of Confederate Veterans & Widows for Pensions
- Monroe County, Roster of Soldiers Who Entered the Confederate Army
- Montgomery County, Confederate Pension Roll, 1890-1924 and Confederate Roster, 1861-1864
- Montgomery County, Service Records of World War I Soldiers, 1917-1919
- Morgan County, Confederate Pension Roll 1920-1931 & Confederate Roster: also Roll and Minutes of Confederate States Service Survivors Association abt. 1879-1930
- Murray County, Confederate Roster and Pension Roll, 1861-1865, 1920-1938
- Muscogee County, Confederate Roster, and Confederate Pension Roll, 1919-1965
- Newton County, Confederate Roster, 1861-1865; Confederate Pension Rolls, 1890-1929
- Oconee County, Confederate Pension Roll, 1890-1920
- Oglethorpe County, Official Service Records World War 1917-1919
- Paulding County, Confederate Pension Roll, 1890-1929, 1931-1940
- Pensioners of Revolutionary War Struck Off The Roll
- Pickens County, Confederate Pension Roll, 1890-1941
- Pierce County, Official Service Records of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps, 1917-1919
- Pierce County, Pension Records, 1914-1938
- Pierce County, Records of Soldiers from Pierce County in World War I, 1917-1919
- Pike County, Confederate Pension Rolls, 1865, 1890-1959
- Pike County, Roster of Confederate Soldiers, No. 1, 1861-1865
- Polk County, Confederate Pension Roll, 1890-1907, 1914-1929
- Pulaski County, Civil War Pension Roll, 1890-1920
- Putnam County, Confederate Pension Roll, 1890-1929; List of Confederate Pensioners, 1879-1937; and Confederate Roster
- Putnam County, World War I Records
- Rabun County, Confederate Pension Rolls, 1891-1919
- Randolph County, Pension Records
- Rockdale County, Confederate Pension Rolls, 1890-1952
- Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865
- Screven County, World War Veterans Records, 1917-1918
- Spalding County, Confederate Pension Rolls, 1914-1928
- Spanish-American War Service Summary Cards
- Sumter County, Confederate Soldiers and Widows Pension Rolls, 1903-1952
- Taliaferro County, Pension Records, 1890-1931
- Tattnall County, Records of World War I Veterans, 1917-1919
- Taylor County, Confederate Roster 1861-1865, Confederate Muster Rolls 1861-1865, and, Confederate Pension Rolls 1890-1919
- Telfair County, Confederate Roster, 1862-1864
- Thomas County, Military Records, 1861-1920
- Thomas County, World War I Discharge Records, 1916-1919
- Towns County, Confederate Pension Rolls, 1924-1941
- Troup County, Military Service Records of World War I, 1917-1919
- Union County, Confederate Pension Rolls, 1914-1949
- United States, World War I, Military Muster Rolls and Rosters, 1916-1939
- Upson County, Confederate Pension Rolls, 1890-1936
- Upson County, Official Service Records of World War I, 1917-1919
- Walker County, Confederate Pension Roll, 1890-1957
- Walton County, Roster of Confederate Soldiers, 1861-1909; Confederate Pension Roll, 191 1-1930
- Walton County, World War I Service Records, 1917-1919
- Ware County, Pension Roll, 1890-1938: List of ex-Confederate Soldiers, 1912, 1920
- Ware County, Service Records of Ware County Veterans, 1917-1919
- Washington County, Confederate Roster, Alphabetically arranged
- Washington County, Soldier’s & Widows Pensions, 1899-1921: Civil War, Spanish-American and Mexican Wars
- Webster County, Confederate Pension Roll
- Webster County, Military Records, 1944-1964
- White County, Confederate Roster, 1861-1865
- White County, World War Veterans Discharge Records, 1917-1918, 1943-1964 and Official Service Records of World War I, 1917-1919
- Whitfield County, Pension Roll of Confederacy, 1913-1937
- Wilcox County, Confederate Roster 1861, and Service Records 1917-1919
- Wilcox County, Pension Records, 1881-1882
- Wilkes County, Confederate Pension Roll, 1890-1920
- Wilkinson County, Military Records, 1917-1964
- World War I Casualties Scrapbooks
- Worth County, Confederate Pension Rolls, 1890-1930
- Worth County, Military Records, 1917-1967
Good Luck and Happy Hunting!