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

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What is in This Collection?
This collection includes National Archive film indexes to compiled military service records for volunteer soldiers, 1784-1811 (NARA M694); soldiers who served during the Indian Wars and Disturbances from 1815-1858 (NARA M629) and the Philippine Insurrection, 1899-1901 (NARA M872). It includes individual state indexes for the Cherokee Removal: Alabama, (NARA M243); Georgia, (NARA M907); North Carolina (NARA M256) and Tennessee (NARA M908). The Creek War: Alabama (NARA M244); the Florida War: Alabama (NARA M245); Louisiana (NARA M239); the Patriot War: Michigan (NARA M630); and New York (NARA M6310). The War of 1837-1838 in Florida Louisiana (NARA M241). The indexes are part of RG 94 Records of the Adjutant General's Office. The compiled military service records are located at the National Archives.

Related National Archives Collections 
 * Carded Records Showing Military Service of Soldiers Who Fought in Volunteer Organizations During the Indian Wars, 1899–1927 NAID 300395
 * 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
 * Post-Revolutionary War Enlistment Papers, 1784–1815 NAID 1588362

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FamilySearch Catalog
 Publications   Microfilm Publications Creek War Cherokee Removal Florida War War of 1837-1838 Florida Patriot War 
 * Don Rickey, Forty miles a day on beans and hay : the enlisted soldier fighting the Indian Wars Norman, Oklahoma : University of Oklahoma Press, c1963 FS Library 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 FS Library 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 FS Library 970.1 M143g
 * Michael A. Ports, Indian wars of the American South, 1610-1858 : a guide for genealogists & historians Baltimore, Maryland : Clearfield Company, ©2017 FS Library 973 H2pma
 * Harry G. Heiss. Finding aid to the Indian Wars widows project records, circa 1865-1965 St. Louis, Missouri : Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, National Park Service, 1989 FS Library 973 M23hh
 * Index to compiled service records of volunteer soldiers who served from 1784 to 1811, M694
 * Compiled service records of volunteer soldiers who served from 1784-1811, M905
 * 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

 Additional Microfilm Sources
 * 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

Additional State Sources
 * 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
 * Correspondence of the Eastern Division pertaining to Cherokee removal Apr - Dec 1838 : M1475

Philippine Insurrection
 * John R Taylor, History of the Philippine Insurrection against the United States, 1899-1903, and documents relating to the War department project for publishing the history NARA M719
 * Index to compiled service records of volunteer soldiers who served during the Philippine Insurrection, M872
 * Geoffrey R. Hunt, Colorado's volunteer infantry in the Philippine Wars, 1898-1899 Albuquerque, New Mexico : University of New Mexico Press, c2006 FHL 978.8 M2hg
 * Franklin F. Holbrook, Minnesota in the Spanish-American War and the Philippine Insurrection Saint Paul : Minnesota War Records Commission, 1923.

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, compilers, Preliminary 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

Philippine Insurrection
 * Trumbull White, Pictorial history of our war with Spain for Cuba's freedom : a thrilling account of the land and naval operations of American soldiers and sailors in our war with Spain, and the heroic struggles of Cuban patriots against Spanish tyranny, including a description and history of Cuba, Spain, Philippine Islands, our army and navy, fighting strength, coast defenses, and our relations with other nations, etc.,Freedom Pub. Co, c1898
 * Clarence Stewart Peterson, Known military dead during the Spanish American War and the Philippines insurrection, 1898-1901 Baltimore, Maryland : Clarence Stewart Peterson, c1958
 * Record of service of Connecticut men in the Army, Navy and Marine Corps of the United States in the Spanish-American War, Philippine Insurrection and China Relief Expedition, from April 21, 1898, to July 4, 1904Hartford, [Connecticut : Case, Lockwood & Brainard, 1919]
 * Kansas troops in the volunteer service of the United States in the Spanish and Philippine wars, mustered in under the first and second calls of the President of the United States : May 9, 1898-October 28, 1899Topeka, Kansas : W.Y. Morgan, 1900

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