Collection

Veterans

Military personnel, biographical remarks, and matched conflicts.

Showing 9,701–9,750

Lastname	Firstname	Middle	Rank	Service	Borndate	Dieddate	Remark	Conflict
Adams	Joe	Frank		Navy			WW II USS Henrico (APA-45) as HA1c	World War II
Adams	Joe	K	PVT			1919-03-03 00:00:00.000	WW I - Died in service GA	World War I
Adams	Joe	L		Army			WW II 307th Infantry Regiment (77th Infantry Division), Ant… WW II 307th Infantry Regiment (77th Infantry Division), Antitank Company as PVT	World War II
Adams	Joe	T	SSGT	Army			WW II Killed in action NM-Chaves	World War II
Adams	Joe	W		Army			WW II 117th Infantry Regiment, Company C as PVT Wounded	World War II
Adams	Joe	W		Army			WW II 117th Infantry Regiment (30th Infantry Division), Com… WW II 117th Infantry Regiment (30th Infantry Division), Company C as PVT Wounded	World War II
Adams	Joe	Willie	GM1c	Navy		1943-10-16 00:00:00.000	WW II Died in service MS ABMC shows him as GM1c. Mississ… WW II Died in service MS ABMC shows him as GM1c. Mississippi list shows him as GM2c	World War II
Adams	Joel	O		A(C)			Civil War 8th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Company D as 1SGT… Civil War 8th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Company D as 1SGT-2LT May be Joel O. Adam, qv, or J.O. Addams, qv	Civil War
Adams	John			Army			Civil War 29th U.S. Colored Infantry Regiment, Company F as… Civil War 29th U.S. Colored Infantry Regiment, Company F as PVT	Civil War
Adams	John			Army			Civil War 3rd Maryland Infantry Regiment, Company B and Com… Civil War 3rd Maryland Infantry Regiment, Company B and Company E as PVT	Civil War
Adams	John			Army			Civil War 15th Michigan Infantry Regiment, Company D as PVT… Civil War 15th Michigan Infantry Regiment, Company D as PVT Also see other John	Civil War
Adams	John			Army			Civil War 2nd Missouri Infantry Regiment, Company C as SGT	Civil War
Adams	John			Army			Civil War 12th Michigan Infantry Regiment, Company B and Co… Civil War 12th Michigan Infantry Regiment, Company B and Company F Also see other John	Civil War
Adams	John			Army			Civil War 1st Minnesota Infantry Regiment, Company G as PVT	Civil War
Adams	John			Army			Civil War 2nd New Jersey Infantry Regiment, Company E as PV… Civil War 2nd New Jersey Infantry Regiment, Company E as PVT	Civil War
Adams	John			Army			War of 1812 Captain Thomas Latta's Company, OH, as PVT Als… War of 1812 Captain Thomas Latta's Company, OH, as PVT Also see other John	War of 1812
Adams	John			Army			Civil War 5th New Hampshire Infantry Regiment, Company A an… Civil War 5th New Hampshire Infantry Regiment, Company A and Company G as PVT May be John S., qv	Civil War
Adams	John			Army			Civil War 2nd New Hampshire Infantry Regiment, Company C as… Civil War 2nd New Hampshire Infantry Regiment, Company C as PVT	Civil War
Adams	John			Army			Mexican War 4th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Company E… Mexican War 4th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Company E as 1SGT	Mexican War
Adams	John			Army			Civil War 15th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment as PVT. Co A	Civil War
Adams	John			Army			Civil War 7th New Jersey Infantry Regiment, Company A as PV… Civil War 7th New Jersey Infantry Regiment, Company A as PVT May be Adame, qv	Civil War
Adams	John			Army			Mexican War 4th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Company H… Mexican War 4th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Company H as PVT-SGT-2LT Also see other John	Mexican War
Adams	John			Army			Civil War 3rd Artillery Regiment, Regular Army as Quarterma… Civil War 3rd Artillery Regiment, Regular Army as Quartermaster SGT and Battery G and Battery E as PVT May be John H., qv	Civil War
Adams	John			Army			Civil War 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, Company H as Artifice… Civil War 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, Company H as Artificer	Civil War
Adams	John			Army			Civil War 23rd Ohio Infantry Regiment, Company D as PVT	Civil War
Adams	John			Army			Civil War 1st Michigan Light Artillery Regiment as PVT Als… Civil War 1st Michigan Light Artillery Regiment as PVT Also see other John	Civil War
Adams	John			Army			Civil War 5th New York Cavalry Regiment, Company M as PVT	Civil War
Adams	John			Army			Civil War 3rd Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment as PVT	Civil War
Adams	John		SGT	Army			WW II Died-non battle NY-Kings	World War II
Adams	John		SGT	Army			Civil War 2nd Kansas Cavalry Regiment, Company D as CPL and… Civil War 2nd Kansas Cavalry Regiment, Company D as CPL and SGT	Civil War
Adams	John						Revolutionary War Died 1793 NY	American Revolution
Adams	John						Spanish-American War GA	Spanish American War
Adams	John						Revolutionary War Died 1811 NY	American Revolution
Adams	John						Revolutionary War Died 1849 NY	American Revolution
Adams	John		PVT			1918-05-16 00:00:00.000	WW I - Died of wounds OH	World War I
Adams	John		PVT			1918-10-07 00:00:00.000	WW I - Died in service OH	World War I
Adams	John			A(C)			Civil War 8th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Company I as PVT … Civil War 8th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Company I as PVT Also see other John	Civil War
Adams	John			A(C)			Civil War 2nd Florida Infantry Regiment, Company B as PVT	Civil War
Adams	John			A(C)			Civil War 43rd Virginia Cavalry Battalion, "Mosby's Partisa… Civil War 43rd Virginia Cavalry Battalion, "Mosby's Partisan Rangers" Also see other John	Civil War
Adams	John			A(C)			Civil War 26th North Carolina Infantry Regiment, Company F … Civil War 26th North Carolina Infantry Regiment, Company F as PVT	Civil War
Adams	John		BGEN	A(C)	1825-07-01 00:00:00.000	1864-11-30 00:00:00.000	Civil War	Civil War
Adams	John			Army			Civil War 83rd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, Company F as… Civil War 83rd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, Company F as PVT Also see other John	Civil War
Adams	John			Army			War of 1812 Captain George Gibson's Company, OH, as PVT Al… War of 1812 Captain George Gibson's Company, OH, as PVT Also see other John	War of 1812
Adams	John			Army			Civil War 11th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, Company C as… Civil War 11th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, Company C as PVT	Civil War
Adams	John			Army			Civil War 90th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, Company D as… Civil War 90th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, Company D as PVT Also see other John	Civil War
Adams	John			Army			Civil War 37th U.S. Colored Infantry Regiment, Company F as… Civil War 37th U.S. Colored Infantry Regiment, Company F as PVT	Civil War
Adams	John			Army			Civil War 1st West Virginia Infantry Regiment, Company G as… Civil War 1st West Virginia Infantry Regiment, Company G as PVT	Civil War
Adams	John			Army			Civil War 48th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, Company A as… Civil War 48th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, Company A as PVT Also see other John	Civil War
Adams	John			Army			Civil War 89th llinois Infantry Regiment and 59th Illinois … Civil War 89th llinois Infantry Regiment and 59th Illinois Infantry Regiment, Company I, as Recruit	Civil War
Adams	John			Army			Civil War 2nd California Cavalry Regiment, Company E as PVT	Civil War

Background and Sources Collection notes, historical context, and related resources

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.