Soldier burials in Old Oak Hill cemetery New! 11/26/2023

Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.) in Allamakee county

First Iowa Cavalry Veteran Volunteers, Company K (1st IA Cavalry, Co. K)

Fourth Iowa Cavalry Veteran Volunteers from Allamakee co. (4th IA Cavalry)

Sixth Iowa Cavalry, Company F, soldiers serving from Lansing - photo (6th IA Cavalry, Co. F)

Twelveth Iowa Veteran Volunteers, Company B (12th IA Infantry, Co. B)

27th Regiment Iowa Infantry Volunteers, Company B, roster (Twenty-seventh IA, Co. B)

27th Regiment of Iowa Infantry Volunteers history

Civil War Veterans from New Albin, photo

Allamakee Co. Soldiers Buried in Andersonville, Georgia - includes many photos

Norwegians with Allamakee co. connections, who served in the Civil War

List of Ex-Soldiers, Sailors and Marines Living in Iowa in 1885
-Served in Iowa units - all wars up to 1885
-Served in U.S. & other state units

Soldier individual pages
* Civil War veteran Charles T. Granger funeral procession photos, fall 1915, Waukon - although unlabeled, so not 100% certain, these photos were most likely taken during the parade of Civil War veterans, Masons and other dignitaries as Judge Granger's remains were taken to Oakland cemetery for burial. He was a Captain in Co. K, 27th IA Infantry.
* Civil War soldier Thomas J. Murphy
* Civil War soldiers Jacob Wampler & Phillip Pierce
* Pvt. Calvin A. Robey - photo & a letter to his mother Caroline - November 1864
* Capt. Elias W. Bascom - newspaper accounting of his escape from a POW prison in 1864
* Charles G. Russell's 1864 letter to President Abraham Lincoln
* John Sires Civil War discharge, August 1865
* Andrew Zoll / Andrew Soll, Company K, Fifth Iowa
* Serg. D.W. Culver, Co. F, 9th Iowa Cav., 1865 letter that mentions Allamakee Co. comrades
* Charles L. King; Pvt. Co. B, 12th Iowa Infantry, POW Andersonville Civil War Widow's Pension & Minor Children's claim
* William DuBay pension application affidavit 1877
* Lt. Samuel O. Smith; 27th Regiment, Iowa Vol. Inf., Co. B - Personal letters, pension file & other misc.
* Robert S. Stevenson; Co.C, 2nd Regt. Wis. Vols - Waukon resident; died at Antietam; posthumous news article

From the Allamakee county history books
-Allamakee Co. in the Civil War from the 1882 History of Allamakee Co.
-Allamakee Co. in the Civil War from the Past and Present of Allamakee Co., 1913 (opens in a new window)

Allamakee co. Civil War Memorial

Decoration Day in Waukon, 1870 - No one in this photo is identified, but it likely shows many Civil War veterans

Spanish-American War Veterans

Allamakee World War I Honor Roll Updated! Nov. 6, 2023 (added John Dundee)

Selective Service Registration Records, 1917 & 1918 (partial) surnames beginning with:
A * B * C * Da-De * Di-Dy * U,V,W,Y & Z

WWI Discharge Records - Index: Surnames A-K * Surnames L-Z

World War I Veterans Memorial, Mt. Hosmer, text & photos

Lansing draftees, 1917 photo

Allamakee county 1918 registrants

Red Cross Pig club, 1918

Soldier's & Sailor's Homecoming Celebrations, 1919
Many communities around the county had celebrations for their returned veterans of the war

Medical Officers Reserve Corps, Physicians from Allamakee Co.

Soldier individual pages
* George Aschom, Lansing soldier's letter home, 1919 (opens in a new window)
* Charley Donovan, Silver Creek soldier's letter to his friend, 1919 (opens in a new window)
* George Goeke, Waukon soldier, wounded & captured by the Germans
* Sidney Thor Koontz, Rossville soldier's diary (opens in a new window)
* Schellhammer brothers, Gottlieb C. & George M.
* Ralph D. Waters, first WWI casualty from Waukon, news articles, funeral photo

World War I Mothers' Pilgrimage - The Gold Star Mothers

Chronicles of the World War - Allamakee Co. County Food Administration & War Loans

The Price of Freedom - honors given 18 prisoners of war: WWI, WWII & Korean War; Merchant Marines recognized; & other info.

Miscellaneous WWI news & letters

WWII Honor Roll - Allamakee co. servicemen & women
Includes some photos and soldiers from towns bordering Allamakee co.
Surnames A-C * Surnames D-F * Surnames G-J * Surnames K-M * Surnames N-R * Surnames S-T * Surnames U-Z

A Salute to Those Who Have Served - a series of Allamakee county WWII veteran biographies, compiled & written by Maury Gallagher
Includes photos and some additional info. about some of the veterans

New Albin WWII Honor Roll

The Price of Freedom - honors given 18 prisoners of war: WWI, WWII & Korean War; Merchant Marines recognized; & other info.s given 18 prisoners of war WWI

The Gold Star Mothers

"Postville Express" Superfortress

Miscellaneous WW II news & letters

Iowa Militia - Lansing City State Guards (and others)

The Price of Freedom - honors given 18 prisoners of war WWI, WWII & Korean War; Merchant Marines recognized; & other info.

Miscellaneous other military news & letters

Allamakee co. men at the military academies

Allamakee co. Veterans Memorial - all wars - includes names on the memorial, a list of names on the bricks & close-up photos of the memorial bricks. The names on the bricks have been cross-referenced to the corresponding photo.

Soldier burials as of 1884 - Postville cemetery

Soldier burials as of 1941 - Old Oak Hill, Oak Hill, Gethsemane, Lansing Ridge, Village Creek, Paint Rock, Mays Prairie, Sandy Point, Faegre Prairie, Wexford & Wheatland cemeteries; includes misc. notes from 1894 All new! Nov. 26, 2023

1903 Memorial Day ceremonies - Postville; Soldier burials as of 1903 & surviving veterans

1904 National Guard - Allamakee Co.

Roll of Honor & Legion posts in Allamakee co.; American Legion 1919-1949 (not inclusive of all dates)

Jacob Fritz military records

American Battle Monuments Commission

Iowa in World War II - IAGenWeb Special Project
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