Veterans · Our War Veterans

Lastname	Firstname	Middle	Rank	Service	Dieddate	Remark	Conflict
Adams	Henry			Army		Civil War 3rd Ohio Infantry Regiment, Company F as PVT	Civil War
Adams	Henry			Army		Civil War 28th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment as PVT Also … Civil War 28th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment as PVT Also see other Henry	Civil War
Adams	Henry			Army		Civil War 5th Ohio Infantry Regiment, Company G as PVT	Civil War
Adams	Henry			Army		Civil War 5th New York Cavalry Regiment, Company I as PVT	Civil War
Adams	Henry			Army		Civil War 25th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, Company B a… Civil War 25th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, Company B as PVT	Civil War
Adams	Henry			Army		Civil War 5th Tennessee Infantry Regiment, Company K as PVT	Civil War
Adams	Henry			Army		Civil War 3rd Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment as PVT Also se… Civil War 3rd Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment as PVT Also see other Henry	Civil War
Adams	Henry			Army		Civil War 48th Illinois Infantry Regiment, Company D as PVT	Civil War
Adams	Henry			Navy		Civil War LA	Civil War
Adams	Henry			Navy		Civil War GA	Civil War
Adams	Henry			Navy		Civil War FL	Civil War
Adams	Henry			Navy		Civil War TN-Montgomery	Civil War
Adams	Henry			Army		WW II 137th Infantry Regiment, Company I as PFC PA	World War II
Adams	Henry			Army		Civil War 115th Illinois Infantry Regiment, Company K as PV… Civil War 115th Illinois Infantry Regiment, Company K as PVT	Civil War
Adams	Henry			Army		War of 1812 1st North Carolina Regiment, 9th Company	War of 1812
Adams	Henry			Army		WW II 100th Quartermaster Company (100th Infantry Division)… WW II 100th Quartermaster Company (100th Infantry Division) as PFC TN	World War II
Adams	Henry			Army		Civil War 116th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, Company B a… Civil War 116th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, Company B as Mus	Civil War
Adams	Henry			Army		Civil War 5th Maryland Infantry Regiment, Company E as PVT	Civil War
Adams	Henry		Lt			WW I - Died of disease AL	World War I
Adams	Henry			Navy		WW II USS Rawlins (APA-226) as StM1c	World War II
Adams	Henry			Navy		WW II USS Ralph Talbot (DD-390) as GM2c	World War II
Adams	Henry	A., Jr.	CPL	MC		WW II Died in service GA	World War II
Adams	Henry	B		Navy		WW II USS Taluga (AO-62) as StM1c	World War II
Adams	Henry	C		Army		Civil War 2nd Wisconsin Infantry Regiment, Company E as PVT	Civil War
Adams	Henry	C		Army		Korean War L Company, 180th Infantry Regiment TN	Korean War
Adams	Henry	C		Army		Civil War 5th Cavalry Regiment, Company I as PVT	Civil War
Adams	Henry	C		Army		Civil War 1st Michigan Light Artillery Regiment as PVT	Civil War
Adams	Henry	C	PFC	Army		WW II Killed in action SD-Jones	World War II
Adams	Henry	C		Army		Civil War 1st Michigan Infantry Regiment, Company C as EM	Civil War
Adams	Henry	C		Army		WW II In Pacific as PVT	World War II
Adams	Henry	C., Jr.		Army		WW II 398th Infantry Regiment (100th Infantry Division), Co… WW II 398th Infantry Regiment (100th Infantry Division), Company G as SSGT NJ	World War II
Adams	Henry	Clay		A(C)		Civil War 43rd Virginia Cavalry Battalion, "Mosby's Partisa… Civil War 43rd Virginia Cavalry Battalion, "Mosby's Partisan Rangers"	Civil War
Adams	Henry	Clay, Jr.		Navy		WW II USS Denver (CL-58) as S2c	World War II
Adams	Henry	D		Army		WW II 137th Infantry Regiment, Company A as PFC Wounded T… WW II 137th Infantry Regiment, Company A as PFC Wounded TN	World War II
Adams	Henry	E		Navy		WW I - KS-Washington	World War I
Adams	Henry	E	SGT	Army		WW II Died non-battle RI-Newport	World War II
Adams	Henry	F		Navy		WW II LST 181 as S2c	World War II
Adams	Henry	G	PVT		1945-05-11 00:00:00.000	WW II Died in service MN	World War II
Adams	Henry	G		Army		Civil War 1st New York Light Artillery Regiment, Battery A … Civil War 1st New York Light Artillery Regiment, Battery A as PVT	Civil War
Adams	Henry	G	PVT	Army		WW II Killed in action MN-Pine	World War II
Adams	Henry	H		Army		Civil War 2nd Wisconsin Infantry Regiment, Company A and Co… Civil War 2nd Wisconsin Infantry Regiment, Company A and Company C as PVT	Civil War
Adams	Henry	H		AF		WW II 56th Fighter Group as officer	World War II
Adams	Henry	H		Army		WW II 15th Infantry Regiment (3rd Infantry Division) as PFC	World War II
Adams	Henry	H		Army		WW II 275th Infantry Regiment (70th Infantry Division), Com… WW II 275th Infantry Regiment (70th Infantry Division), Company H as PFC	World War II
Adams	Henry	H		Army		War of 1812 CPT. Robert Russell's Company (OH) as PVT	War of 1812
Adams	Henry	Hill		Navy		WW II USS Lindsey (DM-32) as WT1c	World War II
Adams	Henry	J	PVT		1942-07-19 00:00:00.000	WW II Died in service MA	World War II
Adams	Henry	J		Army		Indian Wars 16th Infantry Regiment	Indian Wars
Adams	Henry	J	PVT	Army		WW II Died-non battle IL-Cook	World War II
Adams	Henry	J., Jr.		MC		WW II Oct 1942, Guadalcanal HQ and Service Company, 5th Ma… WW II Oct 1942, Guadalcanal HQ and Service Company, 5th Marine Regiment as CPT	World War II

This web page is focused on American war veterans themselves. In addition to the searchable database table of names, several other sources are described (and some are linked) below. It is not about the generals and admirals, although the table includes many of those. However, they get plenty of fame and glory elsewhere. This site is about the rank and file of people who have served, whether volunteers or draftees, making up the depth of the forces needed in the times of our wars.

Links to some of the sources I have used, plus sources in printed books, are described below.

Revolutionary War

Probably the best source of information about the individual American soldiers of the Revolutionary War is the books published by the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR). These are the result of extensive research, and should be available in major public libraries. As far as I know they are not generally for sale publicly.

Valley Forge

Possibly the most famous place associated with the American Revolution is Valley Forge, an encampment outside Philadelphia where the men of George Washington’s army spent a bitterly cold winter early in the war. A searchable database is available at the Valley Forge Muster Roll site. That site will not produce a complete list of every person in their database by a single query, and is limited to 1,000 names per query, but can provide a list of all the persons with a given last name or all of those in a particular regiment (if the regiment had not more than 1,000 members there).

Saratoga

The most decisive engagements of the Revolutionary War were the series of actions around Saratoga, NY in 1777. A site containing information about each of the participants in those actions is at the Saratoga List.

National Parks Service (Civil War)

The National Parks Service (NPS), among its other duties, is responsible for the administration and care of the National Battlefield Parks that were the sites of major Civil War battles. Some years ago the NPS undertook a major project involving thousands of volunteers to digitize the written records of the people who served in that war, on both sides. The result of that effort is now online at the NPS web site.

This is a treasured resource, but one of its characteristics is that in many cases it lists several names that are actually different spellings of one person’s name. As a result, although about 3,500,000 persons participated in the war, the NPS list includes about 6.5 million entries.

World War I

Soldiers of the Great War, is a printed book published in 1920, written by W.M. Haulsee, F.G. Howe, and A.C. Doyle. This publication includes those Americans who died in World War I, listed by state, type of casualty, and rank. These books may be found in major libraries. I found them in the Tampa Florida public library.

At least four states published lists of all of their residents who served in World War I. These books are very detailed, giving quite a bit of information about each person listed. The states for which I have found such volumes are Maine, Maryland, North Dakota and Ohio. I found them in the Columbus Ohio main public library.

Kansas also published a list of its residents who served, by military service and by county, but this publication only lists the names. It was found in the library of the Kansas Historical Society in Topeka Kansas.

World War II

National Archives and Records Administration

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) (commonly known as the National Archives) has a website that lists the 425,000 American military people who died in service during World War II, and also lists Navy and Marine Corps personnel who were wounded, missing, or POW. That site is the NARA site. This link takes you to the state index of the Army and Air Force (Army Air Corps) deaths during the war, and has a link to the index of the Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard casualties.

WW II Navy Muster Rolls

A site called Fold3 (a pay site) shows the quarterly muster rolls of enlisted men serving aboard the Navy ships in World War II. See the Fold3 site.

Marine Corps Muster Rolls

A site called Ancestry.com (a pay site) includes the muster rolls of U.S. Marine units (officers and enlisted) for World War II and a much longer period before and after. Their site is Ancestry.com. I have so far used this source in finding the names of the Marines who were at Guadalcanal.

American Battle Monuments Commission

Many American war veterans who died overseas are buried in a cemetery in or near the country where they died, especially those who died in World War II. These American cemeteries are administered by the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC). That organization maintains a web site showing the names of persons buried in their cemeteries, as well as some information about those people, including their rank, serial number, state, and location of their burial. See the ABMC search site. This will not produce a displayed roster. It is a searchable database.

Some Rosters

Of the many large Army units in the war, such as the Infantry divisions, most have not posted rosters on the Web, or at least I have not found them. Following are a few of the ones that are available.

10th Mountain Division
30th Infantry Division
35th Infantry Division (Partial) – roster index

A Roster of the Officers and Enlisted Men of the 84th Infantry Division has been published in book form. I found a copy through interlibrary loan.

Three books have been published showing the rosters of the three Marine Divisions that participated in the Battle of Iwo Jima. They are available in paperback from online sources:

Complete 3rd Marine Division Unit Rosters: Compiled from January 1945 Muster Roll (USMC WW II Unit Rosters)
Complete 4th Marine Division Unit Rosters: Compiled from January 1945 Muster Roll (USMC WW II Unit Rosters)
Complete 5th Marine Division Unit Rosters: Compiled from January 1945 Muster Roll (USMC WW II Unit Rosters)

Korean War Project

About 38,000 Americans lost their lives in the Korean War. (Various sources give vastly different numbers.) Information about those persons is included in a site titled Korean War Project. That site is maintained by two brothers in Dallas in honor of their uncle who served in that war. Go to the Korean War Project site.

Vietnam War

Hundreds of thousands of Americans went to Vietnam in the uniform of their country. I don’t believe there is any public list of all of them. But about 58,000 of them died there or because of their service there. In addition to being on The Wall in Washington DC they are listed by state in a National Archives Vietnam War web site.

Department of Veterans Affairs

This site includes veterans buried in U.S. National Cemeteries as well as other veterans who have met certain criteria for being included in the list, as well as many wives and dependent children. Both war veterans and other veterans are included. The war in which a veteran served is shown where applicable. I estimate that the site includes on the order of 8 million names, of which maybe half are war veterans. Go to the Grave Locator.