Microfilm Available in the Reference Room at Laguna Niguel, CA:
Military Records

Revolutionary War, 1775-1783	Publication Number	Cabinet Number
Index to Compiled Army Service Records	M860	38
Compiled Army Service Records	M881	38-39
Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files	M804	35-38
Index to Compiled Navy Service Records	M879	39
Service Records of Naval Personnel and Members of the Dept. of the Quartermaster General and Commanding General of Military Stores	M880	39
Index to Miscellaneous Numbered Records, 1773-1790 (M859)	M847	39
Miscellaneous Numbered Records, 1773-1790's	M859	39
Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783	M246	39
Final Revolutionary War Pension Payment Vouchers: Delaware	M2079	39
Records of Invalid Pension Payments to Veterans of the Revolutionary War and Regular Army and Navy: March 1801 to Sept. 1815	M1786	39

WAR OF 1812	Publication Number	Cabinet Number
Index to Volunteer Soldiers in the War of 1812	M602	V11
Index to War of 1812 Prisoners of War (Index to M2019)	M1747	V11
Records relating to War of 1812 Prisoners of War	M2019	V11
Registers of Applications for the Release of Impressed Seamen, 1793-1802 (Index)	M2025	V11

Indian Wars, 1836-1843	Publication Number	Cabinet Number
Index to Alabama Volunteer Soldiers Engaged in Cherokee Removal, 1836-1839	M243	V11
Index to Georgia Volunteer Soldiers Engaged in Cherokee Removal, 1836-1839	M907	V11
Index to North Carolina Volunteer Soldiers Engaged in Cherokee Removal, 1836-1839	M256	V11
Index to Tennessee & Field Staff of the Army of the Cherokee Nation, 1836-1839	M908	V11
Index to Alabama Volunteer Soldiers in the Creek War, 1836-1837	M244	V11
Index to Alabama Volunteer Soldiers in the Florida War, 1836-1843	M245	V11
Index to Louisiana Volunteer Soldiers in the Florida War, 1836-1843	M239	V11
Index to Louisiana Volunteer Soldiers in the War of 1837-1838	M241	V11

Mexican War, 1846-1848	Publication Number	Cabinet Number
Index to Volunteer Soldiers in the Mexican War, 1846-1848	M616	V11

Civil War, 1861-1865 (Union Soldiers)	Publication Number	Cabinet Number
Index To Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers	Various	V9-11
Index to Compiled Service Records of Union Colored Troops	M589	V11
Records of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry (Colored)	M1659	V11
Navy Enlistments, 1861-1865	T1099	V11
Records relating to Union Prisoners Confined in Andersonville	M1303	V11
Index to Pension Application Files of Remarried Widows...after the Civil War	M1785	V11

Civil War, 1861-1865 (Confederate Soldiers)	Publication Number	Cabinet Number
Index to Compiled Records of Confederate Soldiers	M253	V9
Index to Compiled Records of Confederate Soldiers from Territory of Arizona	M375	V9
Compiled Records of Confederate Soldiers from Territory of Arizona	M318	V9
Muster Rolls and Lists of Confederate Troops Paroled in North Carolina	M1781	V11
Register of Soldiers, Sailors & Citizens of the Confederacy Who Died in Northern Prisons & Hospitals	M918	V11
Men in Dept. of Pacific Who Served in Rebel Army (62 names)	*	V11
South Carolina Roll of the Dead	*	V11

Civil War, 1861-1865 (General)	Publication Number	Cabinet Number
Special Census Enumerating Veterans & Widows of the Civil War, 1890	M123	11
Official Battle Lists of the Civil War	M823	V11
Records of the Commissioners of (Southern) Claims, 1871-1880	M87	V11
Docket Cards for US Court Congressional Case Files, 1884-1943 (relates to M87)	M2007	V11
Southern Claims Commission Summary Reports of Disallowed Claims	P2257	V11
List of Civil War Photographs (Index to T252)	T251	V11
Mathew Brady Civil War Photographs	T252	V11

Spanish-American War, 1898	Publication Number	Cabinet Number
Index to Volunteer Soldiers in the Spanish American War, 1898	M871	V11
Index to Volunteer Soldiers from Louisiana in the Spanish American War, 1898	M240	V11
Index to Volunteer Soldiers from North Carolina in the Spanish American War, 1898	M413	V11

World War I, 1917-1919	Publication Number	Cabinet Number
World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918: Arizona, California, and Nevada	M1509	V12
World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918: Indians, Prisoners, Insane, In Hospitals, and Late Registrants	M1509	V26
World War I Draft Board Maps (large cities only)	M1547	V12

Regular Army and Navy, 1784-1921	Publication Number	Cabinet Number
Index to Soldiers, 1784-1811	M694	V11
Army Enlistments, 1789-1914	M233	V12
Army Post Returns for California & Arizona, 1800-1916	M617	V12
Navy Enlistments, 1846-1861, 1865-1884	T1098	V12
Burial Registers for Military Posts, Camps, and Stations, 1768-1921	M2014	V12
Records of Invalid Pension Payments to Veterans of the Revolutionary War and Regular Army and Navy: March 1801 to Sept. 1815	M1786	39

Other Military	Publication Number	Cabinet Number
Index to Pension Application Files of Remarried Widows based on Service in the War of 1812, Indian Wars, Mexican War and Regular Army before 1861	M1784	V11
The Negro in Military Service, 1639-1886	M858	V12
Headstone Records for Civil War Union & some 1812 Veterans, 1879-1903	M1845	V12
Registers for the Pacific Branch (Sawtelle) Home for Disabled Soldiers, 1882-1938	M1749	V12
Letters Received by the Office of the Adjutant General (Main Series), 1861-1870	M619	26
Letters Received by the Office of the Adjutant General (Main Series), 1871-1880	M666	26
Letters Received by the Office of the Adjutant General (Main Series), 1881-1889	M689	26
Discharge Certificates and Miscellaneous Records Relating to the Discharge of Soldiers from the Regular Army, 1792-1815	M1856	39

See Also:

• NARA-wide Military Resources

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