New Mexico Military Records

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See also New Mexico Colonial Patriots,1779-1783

Many military records are found at the Family History Library, the National Archives, and other federal and state archives. See United States Military Records for more information about the federal military records and search strategies. For New Mexico the following sources are helpful:

Forts

 * Fort Bascom Textual records of this fort, 1863-1871, including registers, reports, and correspondence, are in the National Archives and are described in Records of United States Army, Continental Commands, 1821-1920, under the section entitled Records of Posts, 1820-1940 (Record Group 393.7).
 * Fort Bayard (1866-1900) Letters sent by the Post Commander at Fort Bayard have been microfilmed on 3 rolls and are part of National Archives Microcopy T320.
 * Cantonment Burgwin (1852-1860)
 * Fort Conrad (1851-1853) Also known as Fort Craig.
 * Fort Craig (1854) Textual records of this fort, 1854-1885, including registers, reports, and correspondence, are in the National Archives and are described in Records of United States Army, Continental Commands, 1821-1920, under the section entitled Records of Posts, 1820-1940 (Record Group 393.7).
 * Fort Cummings Textual records of this fort, 1863-1894, including registers, reports, and correspondence, are in the National Archives and are described in Records of United States Army, Continental Commands, 1821-1920, under the section entitled Records of Posts, 1820-1940 (Record Group 393.7). Headquarters Records of Fort Cummings for 1863-1873 and for 1880-1884 have been microfilmed on 8 rolls and are part of National Archives Microcopy M1081. FHL Film: 1580039 (first film of 8).
 * Fort Fauntleroy (1860 -1862) See also Fort Lyon and Fort Wingate
 * Fort Fillmore (1851)
 * Fort Garland
 * Post of Las Cruces Textual records of this fort, 1863-1865, including registers, reports, and correspondence, are in the National Archives and are described in Records of United States Army, Continental Commands, 1821-1920, under the section entitled Records of Posts, 1820-1940 (Record Group 393.7).
 * Post of Las Vegas Textual records of this fort, 1851, including registers, reports, and correspondence, are in the National Archives and are described in Records of United States Army, Continental Commands, 1821-1920, under the section entitled Records of Posts, 1820-1940 (Record Group 393.7).
 * Fort Lowell (1866-1869)
 * Fort Lyon See Also Fort Fauntleroy and Fort Wingate
 * Fort Marcy (1846) Textual records of this fort, 1852-1894, including registers, reports, and correspondence, are in the National Archives and are described in Records of United States Army, Continental Commands, 1821-1920, under the section entitled Records of Posts, 1820-1940 (Record Group 393.7).
 * Fort McRae Textual records of this fort, 1865-1876, including registers, reports, and correspondence, are in the National Archives and are described in Records of United States Army, Continental Commands, 1821-1920, under the section entitled Records of Posts, 1820-1940 (Record Group 393.7).
 * Fort Selden Textual records of this fort, 1865-1891, including registers, reports, and correspondence, are in the National Archives and are described in Records of United States Army, Continental Commands, 1821-1920, under the section entitled Records of Posts, 1820-1940 (Record Group 393.7).
 * Fort Stanton (1855) Textual records of this fort, 1863-1896, including registers, reports, and correspondence, are in the National Archives and are described in Records of United States Army, Continental Commands, 1821-1920, under the section entitled Records of Posts, 1820-1940 (Record Group 393.7).
 * Fort Sumner Textual records of this fort, 1863-1869, including registers, reports, and correspondence, are in the National Archives and are described in Records of United States Army, Continental Commands, 1821-1920, under the section entitled Records of Posts, 1820-1940 (Record Group 393.7).
 * Fort Thorn (1853-1859)
 * Fort Tularosa (1872-1874)
 * Fort Union (1851) Textual records of this fort, 1852-1891, including registers, reports, and correspondence, are in the National Archives and are described in Records of United States Army, Continental Commands, 1821-1920, under the section entitled Records of Posts, 1820-1940 (Record Group 393.7).
 * Fort Webster (1852-1853)
 * Fort West
 * Old Fort Wingate Textual records of this fort, 1862-1914, including registers, reports, and correspondence, are in the National Archives and are described in Records of United States Army, Continental Commands, 1821-1920, under the section entitled Records of Posts, 1820-1940 (Record Group 393.7).

Spanish Service Records
Valuable records of those who served in the military in New Spain from 1786 to 1800 are at the General Archives in Simancas, Spain, and on microfilm at the Family History Library (, for an index see ). You will also find military information in the Spanish Archives of New Mexico and the Mexican Archives of New Mexico (see New Mexico Genealogy).

The Simancas Archives is a dissapointment for researching the military records for Colonial New Mexico. They only cover a short period of time and offer maybe up to 20 service records. The Spanish Archives of New Mexico (aka SANM, series II) have over 435 military enlistments. These records are also available at the Family History Library. Other records available at the Family History Library include:


 * Christmas, Henrietta Martinez. Military Records of Colonial New Mexico Notas y 'Revistas (Notes &amp; Musters). Albuquerque, New Mexico: Hispanic Genealogical Research Center of New Mexico, 2008..
 * Christmas, Henrietta Martinez. The Santa Fe Presidio Soldiers: Their Donation to the American Revolution. Albuquerque, New Mexico: New Mexico Genealogical Society, 2006.

Mexican War (1846-1848)
The Mexican War was caused by the annexation of Texas by the United States in 1845. Most volunteer regiments were from southern states. Records of Mexican War veterans might exist in a state where the veteran later resided.


 * United States. Adjutant General’s Office. Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Soldiers Who Served during the Mexican War in Organizations from the State of Tennessee. Washington D.C.: National Archives, 1965. . This includes regimental returns, a record of events during the war, and company muster rolls.


 * Mexican War Index to Pension Files, 1887–1926. (NARA T317). Alphabetically arranged and includes the veteran’s name, rank, and unit; names of dependents; date of filing and application; certificate numbers; act filed under; and state from which application was made. Also available at:


 * (FamilySearch) Free digital copy. (Learn more.)


 * Robarts, William Hugh. Mexican War Veterans : A Complete Roster of the Regular and Volunteer Troops in the War Between the United States and Mexico, from 1846-1848… Washington, D.C. : Brentano’s, 1887. Digital version available at Internet Archive.

Click on these links to learn more about the Mexican War and about Mexican War pension records.

Civil War (1861 to 1865)
See New Mexico in the Civil War for information about New Mexico Civil War records, websites, etc. with links to articles about the New Mexico regiments involved in the Civil War.

The regimental pages often include lists of the companies with links to the counties where the companies started. Men in the companies often lived in the counties where the companies were raised. Knowing a county can help when researching more about the soldiers and their families.

The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System allows name searching for soldiers. The result set gives the regiments for the soldiers. Then you can check the Wiki regiment pages to determine counties. Often knowing the counties that had men in a regiment will help you determine if a soldier was your ancestor.

A wiki article describing an online FamilySearch collection is found at:

New Mexico, Civil War Service Records of Union Soldiers (FamilySearch Historical Records)

Indian Wars (1780s-1890s)
Many soldiers from throughout the United States served in the western states during the Indian Wars. Enlistment registers, pension records, and service records for this war are described in United States Military Records. The Family History Library has miscellaneous records and some muster rolls from the Adjutant Generals' Office in New Mexico for 1862 to 1898. (see ).

Spanish-American War (1898)
Names of soldiers who served in Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders from New Mexico are listed in History of New Mexico: Its Resources and People, Volume 1. Los Angeles, California: Pacific States Publishing Company, 1907.

World War I (1917-1918)

 * A published roster of soldiers who died in the war is W. M. Haulsee, F. C. Howe, and A. C. Doyle, Soldiers of the Great War, Three Volumes. (Washington, D.C.: Soldiers Record Publishing Association, 1920..


 * Volume 2 contains the New Mexico returns.


 * United States. Selective Service System. New Mexico, World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918. National Archives Microfilm Publications, M1509. Washington, D.C.: National Archives, 1987-1988..


 * These cards have been digitized and are searchable online. See WWI Draft Records for more information.

Repositories
The New Mexico Records Center and Archives has an excellent collection of military records, including:


 * Muster rolls
 * Cemetery records
 * Files of the Adjutant General's office from 1848 to 1945

Websites

 * National Archives and Records Administration at http://www.archives.gov/