Genealogy: Military Records at New York City
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The following microfilmed military records are available for research at the New York facility. Descriptive pamphlets are available for most microfilm publications. Please contact us by e-mail at newyork.archives@nara.gov before visiting in order to facilitate your research.
- Revolutionary War
- War of 1812
- Civil War
- World War I
- World War II
- Naval Records
- Other Records
- Pension Indexes
- Additional information on Revolutionary War through 1912 military records can be found at the Old Military and Civil Records Branch, Washington, DC, and the National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis, MO.
Revolutionary War
- Index to military service records (M860) (CT-515)
- Index to American Naval Personnel (M879)
- Muster rolls (M246)
- Compiled military service records (M881)
- Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files (M804)
- Record of Invalid Pension Payments, 3/1801-9/1815 (M1786)
- Miscellaneous Records and Record Books (M847, M859)
- Prize Cases (M162)
- Correspondence of the War Department, 1791-1797 (M1062)
War of 1812
- Index to Remarried Widows Pension Applications, 1815-1861 (M1784)
- Index to compiled service records (M602)
- Records relating to War of 1812 Prisoners of War (M2019)
Civil War
- Index to compiled service records for volunteer organizations from:
- New York (M551)
- New Jersey (M550)
World War I
- Microfilm copies of World War I draft registration cards for New York, New Jersey, and Puerto Rico (M1509)
- Applications for Headstones for U.S. Military Veterans, 1925-1941 (M1916)
World War II
- World War II draft registration cards (4th registration - men born between 1877 and 1897 only) for New York, New Jersey, and Puerto Rico -- we currently have the original records, which are available for research. Microfilm copies are being developed.
- Miscellaneous Lists and Registers of German Concentration Camp Inmates, Originated or Collected by the International Tracing Service (Arolsen) (Record Group 242, National Archives Collection of Foreign Records Seized) (A3355)
Naval Records
- Records of the C.S.S. FLORIDA, 1862-1864 (T716)
- Squadron letters, 1841-1886 (M89)
Other Records
- Records of Living Officers, U.S. Army, 1890 (M1890)
- There are also several publications of correspondence of the Secretary of War, 1800-1870, Civil War Photographs & Negatives (T251, T252)
Pension Indexes
- Pension Index, Remarried widows, before 1861 (M1784)
- Pension Index, Remarried widows, after 1865 (M1785)
