Genealogy: Military Records at Boston, MA (Waltham)
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The following microfilmed military records are available for research at Waltham, MA (Boston). Descriptive pamphlets are available for most microfilm publications. Please contact us by email, waltham.archives@nara.gov before visiting in order to facilitate your research.
- Revolutionary War
- War of 1812
- Civil War
- Naval Records
- Other Records
- Pension Indexes
- Links to Other Locations
Revolutionary War
- Index to military service records (M860)
- Index to American Naval Personnel (M879)
- Muster rolls (M246)
- Compiled military service records (M881)
- Pension rolls (M804)
- VA half-pay pensions (M910)
- Record of Invalid Pension Payments, 3/1801-9/1815 (M1786)
- Ledgers of Pension Payments, 1818-1872 (T718)
- Miscellaneous Records and Record Books (M847, M853, M859)
- Financial Records of the Continental & Confederation Congresses (M1015)
- Prize Cases (M162)
- War Dept Correspondence ... Pensions, 1791-1797 (M1062)
War of 1812
- Index to War of 1812 pension files (M313)
- Index to Remarried Widows Pension Applications, 1815-1861 (M1784)
- Old War Pension Index (1784-1861) (T716)
- Index to compiled service records (M602)
- War of 1812 bounty land warrants (M848)
- Index to War of 1812 Prisoner of War (M747)
- Records relating to War of 1812 Prisoners of War (M2019)
Civil War
- Index to Pensions filed 1861-1934 (T288)
- Index to compiled service records for volunteer Organizations from:
- Connecticut (M535)
- Maine (M543)
- Massachusetts (M544)
- New Hampshire (M549)
- Rhode Island (M555)
- Vermont (M557)
- Compiled service records for the 54th Mass. Colored Infantry (M1659)
- Compiled service records for the 55th Mass. Colored Infantry (M1801)
- Compiled Service Records for the 5th Mass. Cavalry (M1817)
- Union Soldiers courts-martials resulting in executions (M1523)
- Confederate Amnesty Papers (M1003)
- Prisoners at Andersonville (M1303)
Naval Records
- Abstracts of Naval Officers service records 1798 - 1893 (M330)
- Civil War Enlistment Index (T1099)
- Logbooks of the U.S.S. CONSTITUTION, 1798-1934 (M1030)
- Records of the C.S.S. FLORIDA, 1862-1864 (T716)
- Squadron letters, 1841-1886 (M89)
Other Records
- Register of U.S. Army, 1789-1903 (M1858)
- Records of Living Officers, U.S. Army, 1890 (M1890)
- There are also several publications of correspondence of the Secretary of War , 1800-1870, Civil War Photographs & Negatives (T251, T252)
- Microfilm copies of World War I draft registration cards for each New England state
- Microfilm copies of World War II draft registration cards (4th registration - men born between 1877 and 1897 only) for Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont
Pension Indexes
- Old Wars 1784-1861 (T316)
- Mexican War 1846-1848 (T317)
- Indian Wars 1815-1891 (T318)
- Pension Index, Remarried widows, before 1861 (M1784)
- Pension Index, Remarried widows, after 1865 (M1785)
