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From: "R. Houston" <>
Subject: NARA Military Service Records
Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 22:57:17 -0400

Now you have what's in the National Archives and Records with regards to the
Military and which microfilm you need to ask for.....this should make time
and research go much smoother. Rhonda Houston

http://www.nara.gov/publications/microfilm/military/service.html

http://www.nara.gov/publications/microfilm/military/mil01.txt
This is the explaination of the above with the explanation of which roll you
need!!

Military Service Records
A Select Catalog of NARA Microfilm Publications
PART 1:

Introduction
How to Order Microfilm
Regional Archives System
Compiled Service Records
Records of Revolutionary War Soldiers (Record Group 93)
Indexes to Compiled Service Records

PARTS 2 & 3:

Revolutionary War Rolls

PART 4:

Records of Naval Personnel During the Revolutionary War
(Record Group 93)
Indexes to Compiled Service Records
Compiled Service Records
Records of Volunteer Soldiers Who Served From 1784 Until 1811
(Record Group 94)
Indexes to Compiled Service Records
Compiled Service Records
Records of Volunteer Soldiers Who Served in the War of 1812
(Record Groups 94 and 407)
Indexes to Compiled Service Records
Compiled Service Records
Records of Volunteer Soldiers Who Served During Indian Wars and Disturbances
(Record Groups 94 and 407)
Table 1: Microfilmed Indexes to Compiled Military Service
Records of Volunteers During the Indian Wars
Records of Volunteer Soldiers Who Served During Cherokee
Disturbances and Removal
Indexes to Compiled Service Records
Compiled Service Records
Records of Volunteer Soldiers Who Served During the Creek War
Index to Compiled Service Records
Compiled Service Records
Records of Volunteer Soldiers Who Served During the Florida Wars
Indexes to Compiled Service Records
Compiled Service Records
Records of Volunteer Soldiers Who Served During the War of 1837-1838
Index to Compiled Service Records
Compiled Service Records
Records of Volunteer Soldiers Who Served During the Patriot War, 1838-1839
(Record Group 94)
Indexes to Compiled Service Records
Compiled Service Records
Records of Volunteer Soldiers Who Served During the Mexican War
(Record Group 94)
Index to Compiled Service Records
Compiled Service Records

PART 5:

Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served During the Civil War
(Record Group 94)
Table 2: Microfilmed Indexes and Compiled Service Records for Union Army
Volunteers
Indexes to Compiled Service Records

PART 6:

Compiled Service Records, Alabama - Missouri

PART 7:

Compiled Service Records, New Mexico -
1st-6th U.S. Volunteer Infantry Regiments

PART 8:

Records of Movements and Activities of Volunteer Union Organizations
(Record Groups 94 and 407)

PART 9:

Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served During the Civil War
(Record Group 109)
Table 3: Microfilmed Indexes and Compiled Military Service
Records for Confederate Army Volunteers
Indexes to Compiled Service Records

PART 10:

Compiled Service Records, Alabama - Georgia

PART 11:

Compiled Service Records, Kentucky - Missouri

PART 12:

Compiled Service Records, North Carolina - Tennessee

PART 13:

Compiled Service Records, Texas - Virginia

PART 14:

Compiled Service Records (end)
Records of Confederate Movements and Activities (Record Group 109)
Records of Volunteer Soldiers Who Served During the War With Spain
(Record Groups 94 and 407)
Indexes to Compiled Service Records
Compiled Service Records
Records of Volunteer Soldiers Who Served During the Philippine Insurrection
(Record Group 94)
Index to Compiled Service Records
Compiled Service Records
PART 15:

Records Relating to Service in the Regular U.S. Military
Records Relating to Service in the U.S. Army
(Record Groups 94, 391, and 407)
Registers of Enlistments
Returns

PART 16:

Returns from U.S. Military Posts, 1800-1916, M617, rolls 801-1502

PART 17:

Returns from U.S. Military Posts, 1800-1916, M617, rolls 1503-1550

PART 18:

Returns (cont.)
Correspondence Relating to the Service of Regular Army
Officers

PART 19:

Records Relating to Service in the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps
(Record Groups 24, 125, and 127)
Indexes to Rendezvous Reports
Indexes to Rendezvous Reports (Navy Enlistments) Through 1884
Indexes to World War I and Later Rendezvous Reports
Other Records
Veterans' Claims
Military Bounty Land Warrants and Pensions
(Record Groups 15, 49, and 217)
Revolutionary War Bounty Land Warrant Applications and Pensions

PART 20:

Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant
Application Files, 1800-1900, M804, rolls 461-1710

PART 21:

Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant
Application Files, 1800-1900, M804, rolls 1711-2670
Additional Pension Records

PART 22:

War of 1812 Bounty Land Warrants and Pensions
Indexes to Pensions Including Civil War and Later Service

PART 23:

Indexes to Pensions (cont.)

PART 24:

Indexes to Pensions (cont.): Organization Index to Pensions Files of
Veterans Who Served Between 1861 and 1900, T289, rolls 401-765

PART 25:

Indexes to Pensions (cont.): Veterans Administration Pension
Payment Cards, 1907-1933, M850, rolls 1-1000

PART 26:

Indexes to Pensions (cont.): Veterans Administration Pension
Payment Cards, 1907-1933, M850, rolls 1001-2100

PART 27:

Indexes to Pensions (cont.): Veterans Administration Pension
Payment Cards, 1907-1933, M850, rolls 2101-2539
Other Records Relating to Veterans' Claims
(Record Groups 29, 94, and 407)

PART 28:

Miscellaneous Records Relating to Military Service
Additional Revolutionary War Records
(Record Groups 39, 53, 92, 93, 94, 107, and 217)
Other Records Relating to Confederates
(Record Groups 45 and 109)

PART 29:

Other Records (cont.)
Records Relating to United States Military Academy Cadets
and United States Naval Academy Midshipmen
(Record Groups 94 and 405)
Selected Records Relating to Black Servicemen
(Record Groups 94, 107, and 153)

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