Military Records

The Kansas Historical Society holds a wealth of information about military engagements and those who participated in them. The society’s library, manuscripts, and State Archives holdings contain documents and publications that describe Kansas soldiers and Kansas conflicts.

Search the combined index to individual soldiers' records in the State Archives (not a comprehensive index; names are continually being added).

General Information about Kansas Historical Society Military Records

Specific Wars and Conflicts

Mexican War
Kansas Territorial Conflict
Civil War
Plains Indian Campaigns
Spanish-American War/Philippine Insurrection
World War I
World War II
Korean Conflict
Vietnam Conflict

Other Military and Service Records

More than one war or time period.

Veterans’ Records and Organizations

Military Bounty Land Records
Biographical Sources
Censuses Showing Military Service
Kansas G.A.R. Necrology Index
Kansas Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.) Posts
GAR Manuscript Resources
GAR Bibliography
World War I Bibliography
World War II Bibliography
Veterans’ Records in the National Archives

Soldiers’ Home Records

National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Western Branch (Leavenworth, Kans.) (now the Dwight D. Eisenhower VA Medical Center, VA Eastern Kansas Health Care System)

Ancestry.com searchable database of patients, 1895 (all National Home branches)

National Home records at the National Archives

Records of the U.S. Dept. of Veterans’ Affairs in the National Archives