Veterans · Our War Veterans

Lastname	Firstname	Middle	Rank	Service	Dieddate	Remark	Conflict
Abbott	H	L		Army		Civil War May 5-6 1864, Battle of the Wilderness, as MAJ, C… Civil War May 5-6 1864, Battle of the Wilderness, as MAJ, Commander 20th Massachusetts Infantry Regim	Civil War
Abbott	H	P		Army		WW II 914th Field Artilley Battalion (89th Infantry Divisio… WW II 914th Field Artilley Battalion (89th Infantry Division), Battery C as PFC	World War II
Abbott	H	T		Navy		WW II 5th Naval Construction Battalion (Seabees)	World War II
Abbott	Harley			Army		WW II 116th Infantry Regiment, Company E as PVT	World War II
Abbott	Harold			Army		WW II 309th Infantry Regiment (78th Infantry Division), Com… WW II 309th Infantry Regiment (78th Infantry Division), Company E as PFC IA	World War II
Abbott	Harold	E		AF		WW II September 1944, Operation Market Garden as Troop Carr… WW II September 1944, Operation Market Garden as Troop Carrier crewman	World War II
Abbott	Harold	Gordon		Navy		WW II USS Wilkes-Barre (CL-103) as S1c	World War II
Abbott	Harold	J		Navy		WW II LCI-577	World War II
Abbott	Harold	La Verne		Navy		WW II USS Harrison (DD-573) as WT3c	World War II
Abbott	Harold	W		Army		WW II 86th Infantry Regiment (10th Mountain Division), Comp… WW II 86th Infantry Regiment (10th Mountain Division), Company D	World War II
Abbott	Harold	Wayne	PFC	MC	1968-02-17 00:00:00.000	Vietnam War Died in service IN	Vietnam War
Abbott	Harold	Wayne	PFC			Died in Vietnam War Name is on the wall	Vietnam War
Abbott	Harrison					Spanish-American War IN	Spanish American War
Abbott	Harry	Francis		Navy		WW II USS Sigsbee (DD-502) as COX	World War II
Abbott	Harry	G		AF		WW II September 1944, Operation Market Garden as Troop Carr… WW II September 1944, Operation Market Garden as Troop Carrier crewman	World War II
Abbott	Harry	J		Army		WW I - KS-Cherokee	World War I
Abbott	Harry	O	T/5	Army	1985-02-10 00:00:00.000	WW II 505th Regimental Combat Team (82nd Airborne Division)… WW II 505th Regimental Combat Team (82nd Airborne Division) MI	World War II
Abbott	Harry	W		CG		WW II LST-262 as SC3c	World War II
Abbott	Harvard	H		Army		WW II 86th Infantry Regiment (10th Mountain Division), Comp… WW II 86th Infantry Regiment (10th Mountain Division), Company A	World War II
Abbott	Harvey			Army		WW II 756th Tank Battalion (3rd Infantry Division) as 1LT	World War II
Abbott	Henry			Army		Civil War 1st Minnesota Infantry Regiment, Company I as PVT	Civil War
Abbott	Henry			Army		Civil War 1st New York Light Artillery Regiment, Battery H … Civil War 1st New York Light Artillery Regiment, Battery H as PVT	Civil War
Abbott	Henry			Army		Civil War 1st Michigan Infantry Regiment, Company G as EM	Civil War
Abbott	Henry	B		Army		WW II 255th Infantry Regiment (63rd Infantry Division), Com… WW II 255th Infantry Regiment (63rd Infantry Division), Company K as PVT	World War II
Abbott	Henry	G	PVT		1918-10-25 00:00:00.000	WW I - Died in service MS	World War I
Abbott	Henry	H		Army		Civil War Company D, 4th Michigan Infantry Regiment	Civil War
Abbott	Henry	L		Army		WW I - 101st Field Artillery Regiment, Company C as PFC	World War I
Abbott	Henry	Paul		Navy		WW II USS Elmore (APA-42) as EM3c	World War II
Abbott	Herbert			AF		WW II 825th Bomb Squadron (484th Bombardment Group)	World War II
Abbott	Herman	Jennings	GM1c	Navy		WW II Wounded WV	World War II
Abbott	Herman	Riley	AMM3c	Navy	1945-12-10 00:00:00.000	WW II Died in service KS-Wyandotte	World War II
Abbott	Hiram			Army		Civil War 3rd Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment as PVT	Civil War
Abbott	Hiram	F		Army		Civil War 5th New Hampshire Infantry Regiment, Company G M… Civil War 5th New Hampshire Infantry Regiment, Company G May be Hiram T., qv	Civil War
Abbott	Hiram	T		Army		Civil War 5th New Hampshire Infantry Regiment, Company G M… Civil War 5th New Hampshire Infantry Regiment, Company G May be Hiram F., qv	Civil War
Abbott	Homer			Army		WW I - 166th (4th Ohio) Infantry Regiment, Company K as SGT… WW I - 166th (4th Ohio) Infantry Regiment, Company K as SGT OH-Delaware	World War I
Abbott	Homer	H	PFC	Army		WW II Died of wounds IL-Vermillion	World War II
Abbott	Horace	J		Navy		WW II USS Monssen (DD-436) as F2c	World War II
Abbott	Horace	Junior	F1c	Navy		WW II Wounded TX	World War II
Abbott	Horace	M		Army		Civil War 1st Vermont Cavalry Regiment, Company D	Civil War
Abbott	Howard		PFC		1942-07-24 00:00:00.000	WW II Died in service IA	World War II
Abbott	Howard		PFC	Army		WW II Died non-battle IA-Des Moines	World War II
Abbott	Howard			Army		Civil War 1st Michigan Infantry Regiment, Company A as EM	Civil War
Abbott	Howard	I		Army		WW II 7th Infantry Regiment (3rd Infantry Division) as PVT	World War II
Abbott	Howard	W	PVT	Army		Mexican War 1st Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry Co A	Mexican War
Abbott	Hulett	H	PFC	Army		WW II 175th Infantry Regiment Died as result of combat	World War II
Abbott	Hulett	H	PFC	Army		WW II Killed in action TX-Collin	World War II
Abbott	Hulette	H	PFC	Army		WW II 175th Infantry Regiment, Died as result of battle	World War II
Abbott	Hurstle	C		MC		WW II Battle of Iwo Jima 3rd Battalion, 26th Marine Regime… WW II Battle of Iwo Jima 3rd Battalion, 26th Marine Regiment as SGT	World War II
Abbott	Hurstle	C	SGT	MC		WW II Wounded KY	World War II
Abbott	Ira			Army		Civil War 1st Michigan Sharpshooters, Company C	Civil War

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.