Military Records Collection
Last updated 10 August 2024
WCGS Military Records
This is a list of military records maintained in the Washington County Genealogy Library. The collection includes books, newspaper clippings and other documents regarding local Washington County, Iowa state and US military information.
Revolutionary War
Genealogical Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Files, Volumes I-IV by Virgil D. WhiteIndex of Revolutionary War Pension Applications, National Genealogical Society
Index to US Invalid Pension Records 1801-1812 by Murtie June Clark
Pensioners of Revolutionary War Struck Off The Roll
Revolutionary Pensioners-A Transcript of the Pension List of the United States for 1813
Known Military Dead During the American Revolutionary War 1775-1783 by Ex. Lieut. Clarence Stewart Peterson, M.A.
American Prisoner of the Revolution by Danske Dandridge
Revolutionary War Soldiers and Patriots Buried in Iowa, published for the Daughters of the American Revolution by Abigail Adams Chapter, Des Moines, Iowa [Note: Book cites Timothy Brown buried in Elm Grove Cemetery, Washington, pages 36-40 and Samuel Lewis buried Hillcrest Cemetery, Brighton pages 72-74]
Revolutionary War Bounty Land Grants Awarded by State Governments by Lloyd DeWitt Bockstruck
Genealogical Guide-Master Index of Genealogy in the Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine, Volumes 1-84 1892-1950 with Supplement Volumes 85-89 1950-1955
Iowa Society of the Sons of the American Revolution
The Kings Mountain Men-A Story of the Battle, with Sketches of the American Soldiers Who Took Part by Katherine Keogh White
Kings Mountain and Its Heroes-History of the Battle of Kings Mountain, October 7th 1780 by Lyman C. Draper, LL. D.
American Militia in the Frontier Wars 1790-1796 by Murtie June Clark
War of 1812
Soldiers Who Received Government Vouchers for Land in Washington CountyIndex to War of 1812 Pension Files, Volumes I-III by Virgil D. White
Civil War-Local Information
Newspaper ClippingsCW Diary of James Taylor Thomas transcribed by Kristen Twinam
Militia Register Washington Co. 1864
Index to Civil War Discharge Records, Washington County, Iowa, prepared by Beverly Young
The 30th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Veterans Fourth Annual Reunion, 2 October 1886, Brighton Enterprise
8th and 19th Iowa Regiments Reunion, Held Oct 1-2, 1902
Chronicle of the Activities of Company H, 2nd Iowa Infantry, by Bob Curley, Washington Evening Journal
Sheridan in the Shenandoah (mentions a Jed Hotchkiss)
Pensioners of the U.S. in Washington County, Iowa, Published in the Washington County Press, 14 November 1883
List of Pensioner of the Civil War from Washington County, Iowa
CW Veterans Clippings
Our Civil War, Washington Countys Involvement by the Washington County Historical Society, Inc. Index is in separate folder
Grandfather & Company C, 19th Regiment Washington, IA 1892-65 by Donald Anderson
Horatio Escapes by Donald Anderson
Civil War the Good Soldier, The Civil War Experiences of Colonel David J Palmer by Jerry Useem
The Vicksburg Campaign and Reminiscences by Captain J. J. Kellogg
N P Chipman & the Civil War
Military Images-Iowa [Note: Magazine cites Washington County Soldiers: Lytle A. Stephens, Martin Luther Orris and Jeremiah Hackathorn Carl page 25; John Wesley Morton page 31; Josiah Benjamin Romig page 38; David James Palmer page 44: William Dudley page 47; local historian, Michael Huston article about his ancestors].
Civil War-Iowa Information
Union Ticket 1864Iowa Civil War New (newsletters from 1995-1996)
Rock Island Confederate Prison Deaths by Blackhawk Genealogical Society
Warren County, Illinois Genealogical Society-The Civil War and Keokuk: Volume I 1861; Volume II 1862; Volume III 1863; Volume IV 1864; Volume V 1865
Roster and Record of Iowa Soldiers-War of Rebellion: Volume I 1st-8th Regiments-Infantry; Volume II 9th-16th Regiments-Infantry; Volume III 17th-31st Regiments-Infantry; Volume IV 1st-9th Regiments-Cavalry; Volume V 32nd-48th Regiments-Infantry; Volume VI Miscellaneous Organization
The Underlying Procession – V.F. Iowa History
Profiles of Valor, Iowas Medal of Honor Recipients of the Civil War by Dennis H Black, State Historical Society of Iowa (published 2010)
Journal of the 49th National Encampment-Grand Army of the Republic (1915)
The Iowa Department of the Grand Army of the Republic, compiled by Jacob A Swisher (1936)
History Department of Iowa Womans Relief Corps, Auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic 1884-1934, compiled by Emma B. Robinson, 1933 Historian
Iowa Volunteer Militia 1856-1873 compiled by Scharlott Goettsch Blevins
History of the 19th Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry by J. Irvine Dungan
Reminiscences of the 22nd Iowa Infantry, from the Diary of Lieutenant S. C. Jones of Company A
Iowa in War Times by S. H. M. Beyers (1888)
Roster of the 4th Iowa Cavalry Veteran Volunteers, 1861-1865 (An Appendix to the Story of a Cavalry Regiment-1902) by William Forse Scott
Iowa and War series by the State Historical Society of Iowa (published 1917-1918)
Dedication of Monuments Erected by the State of Iowa (published 1908)
Civil War-United States Information
Various Books about battles and peopleCollectors Library of the Civil War-20 volumes on various subjects
Personnel of the Civil War: Volume I Confederate Armies; Volume II Union Armies
The Unpublished Roll of Honor by Mark to memorialize soldiers killed in the war but whose names were not recorded in the published Roll of Honor or anywhere else.
Roll of Honor Volumes I-XXVII: lists the names of Union soldiers who died in the Civil War and are buried in National Cemeteries, and in various states and territories cemeteries. There is an index.
Andersonville-a Story of Rebel Military Prisons by John McElroy, 1879
The Great Rebellion; A History of the Civil War in the United States, Volume II by J. T. Headly, 1866
Other War Information-Local
The Spanish-American War (1898): Its Impact on the Rock Island Arsenal by Thomas SlatteryMartial Sons of Martial Sires by George William McDaniel (a story of Washingtons Company D)
Mexican-American War (1846-1848)-Company K, First Infantry newspaper clippings
Company D Activated to control Riot at Muscatine in 1911
English River War-Rebellion in South English 1863
World War I-Iowa and Local
Washington County in the World War, Pictorial and Biographical Review of Washington Countys most generous contribution to the Great Victory of DemocracyWashington Countys Welcome Home, Souvenir Program of the Days Events, Sept 11, 1919
Iowas War Dead Buried 'Over There' newspaper article with list of names
Price of Our Heritage excerpt from book by Winfred E. Robb (1919)
World War II-Iowa and Local
Larry Trotters Tales of the Small Ships (Veteran from Ainsworth, Iowa)Saga of the Red Horse book and articles from reunions held in Washington, Iowa
Troop D, 113 Cavalry
WWII Travels with Don Proudfit, 9th Army Airforce, 391st Bomb Group, 575th Squadron
Memories of 2nd World War by Ralph W. Tews, Staff Sargent
Ainsworth, Pearl Harbor, World War II compiled by Lawrence H Trotter, William A Trotter and Tracy H. Norris with several local contributors
State Summary of War Casualties, Iowa (U.S. Navy 1946)
Lt. Col. Donals K. Longer USAF Ret, From Horses to Jets-Military History 1940-1969
Only the Least of Me is Hostage, Midwest POWs in Nazi Germany: Volume 2, Airmen, compiled by Michael Luick-Thrams (2004)
Women in War
Martha Ann (Mace) Boshart newspaper articleWomen Airforce Service Pilots (Wikipedia excerpt)
Womens Memorial at Arlington Cemetery: Article and list of Women from Washington County that were involved in the Civil War, WWI and WWII including nursed and others from various service branches.
Local Veterans
Newspaper ClippingsWashington County Chapel of Remembrance at Elm Grove Cemetery: Local Veterans Records (19 Volumes)
Iowa Veterans
National Guard of the United States, State of Iowa, 1938We Lucky Few, Portraits of Courage and Sacrifice from SE Iowa compiled by Larry Cuddeback and Cheyenne Cuddeback Miller (2012)
The Price of our Heritage, In Memory of the Heroic Dead of the 168 Infantry by Winfred E Robb (1919)
United States Pension Files
Index to Indian Wars Pension Files 1892-1926 transcribed by Virgil D. White. Volume I: A-K and Volume II: L-ZIndex to Old Wars Pension Files 1815-1926 transcribed by Virgil D. White. Volume I: A-K and Volume II: L-Z
A Census of Pensioners for Revolutionary or Military Services with a General Index prepared by the Genealogical Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (1989)
United States Military
Various books on various wars and peopleWashington Co. Home
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