Delaware Military Records

Revolutionary War Records

1775 – 1783

• 1840 Census of Pensioners Revolutionary or Military Services (hosted at American Local History Network)
• Service Records
  • Slavan, Joseph (hosted at Slavens.net)

War of 1812

1812 – 1814

• Delaware in the War of 1812 Online Exhibit
  • Military Reports
    • Accounting
    • Appointments & Resignations
    • Camp Irvine Reports
    • Claim Vouchers
    • Guard Reports
    • Habeus Corpus
    • Judicial Documents
    • Lewistown Reports
    • Miscellaneous Documents
    • Muster Rolls
    • Officer Documents
    • Returns
    • River Pilot Logs
    • Society of War – Minutes
    • Status Reports

  Pension Applications

• Ancestry.com Databases
  • War of 1812 Service Records
  • War of 1812: Miscellaneous Canadian Records
• Books, CD’s and Videos
  • Ancestry.com
    • Military Records: War of 1812 Muster Rolls (CD)
• Resources in NARA
• US Army Center of Military History
  • The War of 1812
• The War of 1812 in the Western District
  • Timeline
• Society of the War of 1812
  • A Privateersman’s Letters Home from Prison
• History 101
  • The Star Spangled Banner

Indian Wars

• Indian War Medals of Honor (hosted at United States Army)
• Pequot Indian War
• French and Indian War

Civil War Databases

• Civil War Documents
  Explore the history of Delawareans during the American Civil War through photographs, diaries, letters, service records, legislation, newspapers, and more.
• Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System (hosted at the National Park Service)
  • Search for Soldiers
  • Search for Sailors
  • Search by Regiment
  • Battlefields
  • Prisoner Search
    • Andersonville – Union
    • Ft. McHenry – Confederate
  • Medal of Honor Recipients
• Ancestry.com
  • American Civil War Battle Summaries
  • American Civil War General Officers
  • American Civil War Pension Index
  • American Civil War Regiments
  • American Civil War Service Records
  • American Civil War Soldiers
  • Confederate Research Sources
  • Confederate States Field Officers

Spanish American War

1898 – 1902

• Spanish American War Chronology (hosted at Spanish American War Centenial Web Site)
  • Personal Profiles

World War I

1914 – 1919

• State Draft Records
• World War I Draft Registration Message Board

World War II

1935 -1945
U.S. Entered the war in 1941

• World War II records
  • World War II Casualties – By State and County – Army, Army Air Corps, Navy, Marines, Coast Guard
• Pearl Harbor Casualty List – Name, Rank and location.
• American World War II Orphans Network (hosted at American World War II Orphans Network)
  • Fathers Page
• Operation Paperclip
  Operation Paperclip was the code name under which the US intelligence and military services extricated scientists from Germany, during and after the final stages of World War II. The project was originally called Operation Overcast, and is sometimes also known as Project Paperclip.
• World War II

Korean War

• Korean Conflict, 1950-1953
  • Korean War Casualty List
• Ancesty.com
  • Korean Conflict Death Index
  • North Korea Country Study

Vietnam War

• Vietnam War Casualty List, 1961-1969

United States Military Cemeteries

• National Military Cemeteries
• State Military Cemeteries
• Online Cemeteries