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Indiana Military Records
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The Indiana State Archives, holds the following military records of interest to the genealogist:
- Indiana State Militia, 1812-1851
Alphabetical index of officers commissioned, giving name, rank, and unit. - Card file of Indiana Civil War Volunteers
This may include name, rank, company, regiment, period of original enlistment, place and date of enrollment and muster, age, physical description, nativity, occupation, date, place and manner of leaving the service, information on promotions, and wounds. - Card file of Indiana Legion, which was the Civil War State Militia.
This may include name, company, dates of active duty, age, and county and town where organized. - Card file of Civil War Substitutes.
This includes the names of citizens who hired substitutes, the names of the substitutes, and the unit to which that person was assigned. - Veterans' Grave Registration.
Card file of veterans; includes fifty-one counties. - Veterans' Enrollments of 1886, 1890, and 1894
The books are arranged by county and township. They include name, company and regiment, state from which the veteran served, number of children under sixteen, medical problems, and current physical condition.
The archives also has card files on Indiana Militia (1877-96), Mexican War Volunteer Index, Black Hawk War Militia Index, Gold Star Roll of Honor for 1914-18, Indiana Spanish-American War Volunteers microfilmed registration cards, and Registers of Visitors to the National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic at Indianapolis (4-9 September 1893). This repository has service records for all veterans who applied for the Indiana State Bonus for World War II and Korea; these records are restricted.
The National Archives/Great Lakes Region holds Records of the Selective Service Board (1917-19) for Indiana. Included are Index to Delinquent and Deserter Forms (incomplete for some areas) and docket books of registrants, arranged within state by county and division.
- Submit a website for Indiana Military Records
- Indiana Military Books at Amazon.com
- Search Revolutionary War 1775-83 Service Records
, Rejected Pensions, Loyalists Records, 1775-1783 Pay Rolls, Courts-Martial, Officers, Pension Index
- Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783 (The National Archives): View, Print Copy & Save Original Documents in NARA publication M246 include muster rolls, payrolls, strength returns, and other miscellaneous personnel, pay, and supply records of American Army units, 1775-83.
- Compiled Service Records of Soldiers Who Served in the American Army During the Revolutionary War
- Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files
Civil War in Indiana
Search Civil War Soldiers, Service Records, Regiments, General Officers, Battle Summaries, Pension Index: 1861-1934, CSA Field Officers and the War of the Rebellion
Indiana was one of the earliest states in the Union to respond to Abraham Lincoln’s initial call for 75,000 volunteers to put down the rebellion. Indiana’s initial quota was for 7,500 volunteers. The quota was quickly met and many thousands of potential volunteers were turned away to return to their homes disappointed. The naïve assumption that the rebellion would be quickly ended, turned into a national nightmare of four years duration. Before the conflict ended, Indiana would be called upon to tender 208,367 men for service in the military.
Indiana regiments were engaged in every principle battle of the war. From the earliest days of the conflict, during the bombardment of Fort Sumter, where Hoosier Jefferson C. Davis served as a lieutenant, to the last engagement at Palmetto Ranch, Texas, where a soldier from the 34th Indiana became one of the last casualties of the war, Indiana men gave their blood and sweat to preserve this country and her freedoms.
The Civil War proved costly to the State of Indiana. Over 24,416 Hoosiers were killed or died during their service. More than twice that number returned to the state bearing disfiguring and debilitating wounds and scars.
The site www.mycivilwar.com has a list of unit and histories for Alabama. Below is a list of online resources for Indiana in the Civil War.
- Indiana Civil War Books at Amazon.com
- Southern Claims - Barred and Disallowed from the State of Indiana (The National Archives): View, Print Copy & Save Original Documents In the 1870s, southerners claimed compensation from the U.S. government for items used by the Union Army, ranging from corn and horses, to trees and church buildings.
- Organization Index to Pension Files of Veterans Who Served Between 1861 and 1900 from the State of Indiana (The National Archives): View, Print Copy & Save Original Pension applications for service in the U.S. Army between 1861 and 1917, grouped according to the units in which the veterans served.
List conflicts dating from earliest to 1865
See Also Researching in Military Records and Colonial & United States Wars From Earliest to 1865
Conflicts involving Indiana dating from earliest to 1865. Wars covered that are available are:
- War of 1812 1812–15
- Creek Indian War 1813-1814
- The First Seminole War 1818-1819
- Texas Revolutionary War 1835-1836
- Second Seminole War 1835-1842
- Mexican War 1846–48
- Civil War 1861–65
- Spanish-American War 1898
- World War I 1917–18
- World War II 1941–45
- Korean War 1950–53
- Vietnam War 1961–73
- War on Terrorism 2001-Present
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