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Military records are available for Oklahoma prior to statehood. Bounty-land and military service records are located either at the National Archives or the Southwest Region branch in Fort Worth. Troops who accompanied Native Americans during the federal government's forced removal of tribes can be found in U.S. Senate Document 512.
Confederate and Union service as well as other military service records are available from the National Archives. Some Civil War applications for pensions and pension records are extant at the Oklahoma Department of Libraries, State Archives Division. Included are records for Confederate veterans (and their widows) who served elsewhere but were residents of Oklahoma when allocated pensions. These are filed numerically and indexed separately. See Oklahoma Board of Pension Commissioners, Confederate Pension Applications for Soldiers and Sailors. Data on a Confederate pension from Oklahoma may be obtained from the Oklahoma Department of Welfare, Capitol Office Building, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73103.
Index to Applications for Pensions from the State of Oklahoma Submitted by Confederate Soldiers, Sailors and their Widows, Special Publication No. 2, gives veteran's name, application number, and number of the reel for locating the pension file on microfilm.
Native American military units were part of Texas organizations, and are filed with those units, not as separate units for Indian Territory. Some confederate service records may be filed with the State Adjutant General's Office or the Oklahoma Historical Society, Archives and Manuscripts Division. See also Grant Foreman, History of the Service and List of Individuals of the Five Civilized Tribes in the Confederate Army, 2 vols. (Oklahoma City, Okla.: Oklahoma Historical Society, 1948).
The Oklahoma Historical Society maintains a card file of veterans buried in Oklahoma. These data cards may include full name, birth date, death date, burial place, and military service unit data. The Oklahoma Historical Society has the records, although incomplete, of the Confederate Home located in Ardmore, Oklahoma. Other records at the historical society include those for Native Americans that are contained in the Indian Archives section. Muster rolls of the Indian Home Guard are on microfilm. These are arranged by tribe, then by unit.
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- 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.
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- Organization Index to Pension Files of Veterans Who Served Between 1861 and 1900 from the State of Oklahoma (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.
- Southern Claims - Barred and Disallowed from the State of Oklahoma (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.
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Conflicts involving Oklahoma dating from earliest to 1865. Wars covered that are available are:
- 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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