United States, Indexes to Service Records of Volunteer Soldiers - FamilySearch Historical Records

United States

What Is in the Collection?
This collection includes National Archive film indexes to compiled military service records for volunteer soldiers, 1784-1811 and soldiers who served during the Indian Wars and Disturbances from 1815-1858. It includes individual states indexes for Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Michigan, New York, North Carolina, and Tennessee for the Cherokee Removal, Creek War, Florida War, Patriot War, and the War of 1837-1838. These indexes are part of RG 94 Records of the Adjutant General's Office.


 * Related National Archives Collections 
 * Carded Records Showing Military Service of Soldiers Who Fought in Volunteer Organizations During the Indian Wars, 1899–1927 NAID 300395 Partially Digitized
 * Indexes to the Carded Records of Soldiers Who Served in Volunteer Organizations During the Indian Wars, 1899–1927 NAID 654513
 * Muster Rolls of Volunteer Organizations In Various Indian Wars and Other Incidents Requiring the Employment of Troops, 1794–1858 NAID 654651
 * Lists of Organizations Participating in Indian Wars and Other Disturbances, ca. 1873–ca. 1930 NAID 2602606
 * Indexes to Records Supporting Claims for Indians Wars, 1917–1931 NAID 1696661

What Can This Collection Tell Me?
The content varies by individual record. They may contain any of the following: • 2

How Do I Search the Collection?
Before searching this collection, it is helpful to know:
 * The name of the solider.
 * The date of service for the volunteer soldier.
 * The place where the soldier enlisted or served.

How Do I Analyze the Results?
Compare each result from your search with what you know to determine if there is a match. This may require viewing multiple records or images. Keep track of your research in a research log.

What Do I Do Next?
When you have located your ancestor’s record, carefully evaluate each piece of information given. Download a copy of the record, or extract the genealogical information needed. These pieces of information may give you new biographical details. Add this new information to your records of each family. The information may also lead you to other records about your ancestors.

I Found the Person I Was Looking For, What Now?

 * Use the estimated age to calculate a birth date.
 * Use the age and location of the military unit to find the soldier’s family in other records such as church, and land records.
 * Search for additional military records.
 * Continue to search the index and records to identify children, siblings, parents, and other relatives who may have served in the same unit or a nearby unit.
 * Search the records of nearby military units.

I Can’t Find the Person I’m Looking For, What Now?

 * Check for variant spellings of the names.
 * Look for a different index. Local genealogical and historical societies often have indexes to local records.
 * Search the records of nearby counties.

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FamilySearch Catalog
 Publications   Microfilm Publications - Indexes Additional Sources
 * Don Rickey, Forty miles a day on beans and hay : the enlisted soldier fighting the Indian Wars Norman, Oklahoma : University of Oklahoma Press, c1963 FHL 973 M2ri
 * George W. Webb, Chronological List of Engagements between the Regular Army of the United States and various tribes of hostile Indians which occurred during the years 1790 to 1898, inclusive Reprint. Originally published: St. Joseph, Mo. : Wing Print. and Pub. Co., 1939;New York, New York : AMS Press, 1976
 * Office Memoranda, Adjutant General's Office, Chronological list of actions, &c., with Indians from January 1, 1866 to January, 1891Washington, D.C. : Government Printing Office (United States), 1891 FHL 973 M2cLo
 * Indian Battles and Skirmishes on the American Frontier,1790-1898
 * John D. McDermott, A guide to the Indian Wars of the West Lincoln, Nebraska : University of Nebraska Press, c1998 FHL 970.1 M143g
 * Michael A. Ports, Indian wars of the American South, 1610-1858 : a guide for genealogists & historians Baltimore, Maryland : Clearfield Company, ©2017 FHL 973 H2pma
 * Index to compiled service records of volunteer soldiers who served from 1784 to 1811, M694
 * Index to compiled service records of volunteer soldiers who served during Indian wars and disturbances, 1815-1858 M629
 * Index to compiled service records of volunteer soldiers who served during the Creek War in organizations from the state of Alabama, M244
 * Index to compiled service records of volunteer soldiers who served during the Cherokee removal in organizations from the state of Alabama, M243
 * Index to compiled service records of volunteer soldiers who served during the Cherokee disturbances and removal in organizations from the state of Georgia, M907
 * Index to compiled service records of volunteer soldiers who served during Cherokee disturbances and removal in organizations from the state of North Carolina, M256
 * Indexes to compiled service records of volunteer soldiers who served during the Cherokee disturbances and removal in organizations from the state of Tennessee, and the field and staff of the army of the Cherokee Nation, M908
 * Index to compiled service records of volunteer soldiers who served during the Florida War in organizations from the state of Alabama, M245
 * Index to compiled service records of volunteer soldiers who served during the Florida War in organizations from the state of Louisiana, M239
 * Index to compiled service records of volunteer soldiers who served during the War of 1837-1838 in organizations from the state of Louisiana, M241
 * Index to compiled service records of volunteer soldiers who served from the state of Michigan during the patriot war, 1838-1839, M630
 * Index to compiled service records of volunteer soldiers who served from the state of New York during the Patriot War, 1838, M631
 * Philippine Insurrection
 * Index to compiled service records of volunteer soldiers who served during the Philippine Insurrection, M872
 *  Compiled Service Records
 * Compiled service records of volunteer soldiers who served from 1784-1811, M905
 * Compiled military service records of Michigan and Illinois volunteers who served during the Winnebago Indian disturbances, 1827, M1505
 * Compiled service records of volunteer soldiers who served in organizations from the state of Florida during the Florida Indian Wars, 1835-1858, M1086
 * Alabama, Indian war service, 1812-1814
 * Alabama, Indian War, 1836
 * Florida, Indian War Claims Commission, Claims, reports, minutes and publications, 1878-1926
 * Claims for Georgia Militia campaigns against Indians on the frontier, 1792-1827 (M1745)
 * Oregon, Indian war pension papers, 1897-1902
 * Service records of Indian Wars in Utah, 1853-1868
 * Muster rolls, Indian War 1855-1856, Washington

FamilySearch Historical Records

 * United States Old War Pension Index, 1815-1926
 * United States Index to Indian Wars Pension Files, 1892-1926
 * United States General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934
 * United States Index to Service Records, War with Spain, 1898
 * Utah Applications Indian War Service Medals, 1905-1912
 * Utah, Indian War Service Affidavits, 1909-1917

FamilySearch Digital Library

 * Pendell, Lucille H., and Elizabeth Bethel, compilersPreliminary Inventory of the Records of the Adjutant General’s Office,p. 17. Washington, D.C.: 1949. Reprint, 1981.''
 * Edward S. Ellis, The Indian wars of the United States : from the first settlement at Jamestown, in 1607, to the close of the great uprising of 1890-91 : with numerous illustrative incidents New York, New York : Cassell Pub. Co, ©1892
 * St. Augustine National Cemetery. Record of officers and soldiers killed in battle and died in service during the Florida War Washington, D.C. : Government Printing Office (United States), 1882

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