- Ancestry Library Edition (free, in-library use only) millitary resources
-
Heritage Quest Online (log on with library barcode)
Revolutionary War records; books and articles with various military resources
- Fold3 (formerly Footnote) for free and fee files related to various military operations
- Military Records wiki article on FamilySearch
- INSPIRE Select Indiana Memory and type in Military
Congressional Medal of Honor Recipients …
Veterans Grave Locator for Military Cemeteries
- Military Indexes (free & subscription databases for various wars)
- US Army Center of Military History
National Archives …
- Ancestry Library Edition
- Heritage Quest Online
- DAR Forgotten Patriots
- DAR Genealogical Records Committee Search
- DAR Online Catalog
- Finding a Patriot
- Online Revolutionary War Indexes
- Revolutionary Veterans buried in Jackson County
- Revolutionary War Resources
- SAR in Jackson County
Click on this image for a larger version of the list
of Revolutionary War veterans who died in Jackson County.
The memorial erected by the Benton Chapter of the
Sons of the American Revolution
is located on the campus of the
Jackson County History Center
in Brownstown.
Frontier & Indian Wars …
- Pigeon Roost Massacre (Scott County)
Seymour Library selected resources from among those available:
- Pigeon Roost Massacre
- Frontier settlement accounts
Spanish-American War…
Civil War…
- CW Soldiers & Sailors Database with rosters, regiments, cemeteries, prisoners
- Cyndi’s List CW guide to online Civil War resources
- National Archives Records Catalogs
- National Archives Record Orders
- Online Civil War Indexes
Seymour Library selected resources from among those available on Civil War service:
- Accounts of Indiana units in various battles
- GAR Veterans Death Rolls (Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska)
- Guide to Indiana Civil War Manuscripts
- Regimental Histories of Locally Related Units
- Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana (9 vols.)
- Reports of Morgan’s Raid into Indiana
GAR Posts in Jackson County:
Brownstown: 159. Gordon Tanner
Crothersville: 570. Col. Snodgrass
Freetown: 153. Freetown
Medora: 193. Newton Rea
Mooney: 194. Mooney
Seymour: 20. Ellsworth
Tampico: 255. Gen. J.C. Davis
Uniontown: 224. Garfield
Vallonia: 548. Ira B. Harrell
Selected resources among those in the Seymour Library:
- Gold star honor roll : a record of Indiana men and women who died in the service of the United States and the allied nations in the world war 1914-1918
- Jackson County Draft Registration microfilm at the Seymour Library
- WWI Deaths in Indiana
World War II
- Memoirs of a WWII Combat Engineer / Sgt. Frederick Peters of Jackson County (~37Mb download; a hard copy of the book is available in the Seymour Library)
- World War II Memorial
- NARA WWII Army & Air Force Casualties
- NARA WWII Other Branch Casualties
- Online WWII Indexes
- Cyndi’s List WWII
World War II for Jackson County
- Freeman Army Air Field on Indiana Military site by Jim West
- Indiana Military
- On Celestial Wings / Edgar D. Whitcomb
- Memoirs of a WWII Combat Engineer / Sgt. Frederick Peters of Jackson County
Request military service records from the National Archives for various periods of service:
- World War I Draft Registration Records for Jackson County (on microfilm at JCPL) and for Indiana (on Ancestry Library Edition)
- Indiana’s World War II Casualties for Navy, Marine Corp, and Coast Guard Personnel
- Indiana’s World War II Casualties for Army & Army Air Forces
- Indiana’s Korean War Casualties
- Indiana’s Vietnam War Casualties