Civil War Veterans in Kansas

This database is a work in progress. It currently contains over 28,000 names of Union veterans of the Civil War who lived in Kansas after 1865. The names are from various rosters or reunion proceedings. Many of the rosters were based on the 1889 census of veterans authorized by the state legislature. The list of the titles included in this database follows the search boxes. The information in this database was input by KSHS staff and volunteers and includes the name of the veteran, the state from which he served, residence in Kansas when the list was compiled, and the source of information. Some of the original sources contain additional information such as rank, regiment and company, birth and/or death date, dates of service, parents' or wife's name, etc. See the list of sources to see what additional information is included in a specific volume. This database and the list of sources will continue to grow as volumes are completed. For Civil War veterans publications not yet included in this database, see the Grand Army of the Republic Bibliography.

Surname:		First Name:
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County of Residence:		State From Which Served:

Sources included in this database:

Alrich, L.L. Roster of Pennsylvania's Ex-Soldiers in the State of Kansas, January 1883. Cawker City, Kan.: Printed at the Office of The Camp Fire, 1883. [Call number K/973.74/R739/no. 3] Information: arranged by regiment, includes name, rank, company, and post office.

Coulter, Orel. Roster of Illinois Soldiers Residing in Kansas...from the Official Enrollment Made by the Township Trustees [April 1889] as Ordered by the Kansas State Legislature. Topeka, Kan.: Western Veteran, n.d. Volumes 1 and 2. [Call number K/973.74/R739/nos. 1&2] Information: arranged by regiment, includes name, company, and post office.

Coulter, Orel H. Roster of Ohio Soldiers Residing in Kansas ... from the Official Enrollment Made by the Township Trustees [April 1889] as Ordered by the Kansas State Legislature. Topeka, Kan.: The Western Veteran, 1889. [Call number: K/973.74/R739/no. 4] Information: arranged by regiment, includes name, company, and post office.

Green, Charles Ransley. Fifty years after We Volunteered to Put Down the Great Rebellion [including] Part 1, Names of Old Soldiers Living in and Around Olathe... Olathe, Kansas: Register Publishing Company, 1911. [Call number K/974.74/R739/no. 11] Information is arranged by state and varies greatly from entry to entry but may include name, company, regiment, length of service, when to Kansas, if a wife and the number of children, street address, and miscellaneous information.

Howard Courant. List of Ex-Soldiers of the War of the Rebellion Residing in Elk County, August 2, 1889. Howard, Kan.: 1889. [Call number K/973.74/R739/no. 12] Information: name, company, regiment, and post office.

Indiana Veteran Association of the War of the Rebellion of the State of Kansas. Roster of Indiana Soldiers in the State of Kansas, Compiled from Records in Adjutant General's Office and Reunion Registers. Topeka, Kan.: 1888. [Call number K/973.74/R739/no. 6] Information: arranged by regiment, includes name, rank (nothing if private or unknown), company, and post office.

Kinton, Maxine L. Civil War Veterans to Labette County, Kansas. N.p.: n.d. [Call number K/973.74/R739/no. 19] Information varies but may include name, birth date, death date, wife's name and birth/death date, place of burial, company, regiment, when to Kansas, residence, and/or length of service. Many of the birth and death dates are only the year.

Limerick, A.H. Roll of Ex-Soldiers of the Kansas House of Representatives, 1889. [Topeka, Kansas: Kansas Publishing House], 1889. [Call number K/973.74/R739/no. 17] Information: name, company, regiment, remarks (include rank, time served, etc.), post office.

List of Ex-Soldiers Now Residing in Marion County, Kansas. N.p.: n.d. [ca. 1889?] [Call number K/973.74/R739/no. 13] Information: name, rank, company, regiment, state, arm of service, if wounded, injured or disease, and post office.

Moore, C.E. List of Old Soldiers that Registered at the Soldiers' Reunion in Cherryvale, Kansas, August 19-24, 1901. [Cherryvale, Kan.: Cherryvale Republican], 1901. [Call number K/973.74/R739/no. 18] Information: arranged by state where served, includes name, rank, company, regiment, and post office.

Moser, O.A. Roster of Iowa Soldiers in Kansas. Emporia, Kan.: E. Lamborn, 1886. [Call number K/973.74/R739/no. 7] Information: arranged by regiment, includes name, company, and post office.

Ward, R.G. List of Ex-Soldiers of Chautauqua County, Kansas, as Returned by the Township Assessors. Sedan, Kan.: Times, 1883. [Call number K/973.74/R739/no. 14] Information: arranged by state, includes name, rank, company, regiment, arm of service, and post office.

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