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Military

"It is the duty of the people to care for him who shall have borne the battle, his widow and orphan"
~Abraham Lincoln

Freedom Isn't Free Let's Not Forget

Databases of Illinois Veterans at the Illinois State Archives Online
1929 Illinois Roll of Honor Illinois Black Hawk War Veterans Illinois Civil War Muster and Descriptive Rolls Illinois Civil War Veterans of Missouri Units Illinois Civil War Veterans Serving in the U.S. Navy Illinois Mexican War Veterans Illinois Soldiers' and Sailors' Home Residents Illinois Spanish–American War Veterans Illinois Veterans' History Project Illinois War of 1812 Veterans Illinois Winnebago War Veterans

Databases of Illinois Veterans at the Illinois State Archives Online

KIA Memorial Stones

American Revolution
Year: 1775 - 1783
Service Members: 184,000 to 250,000
Battle Deaths: 4,435
Revolutionary War Veteran Burials
Revolutionary War Pension Applications
Revolutionary War Battles Map

War of 1812
War of 1812 Burials
Year: 1812 - 1815
Service Members: 286,730
Battle Deaths: 2,260

Indian Wars
Indian War Burials
Year: Abt. 1817 - 1898
Service Members: 106,000
Battle Deaths: 1,000

Black Hawk War Enlistments
Year: 1831 - 1832
Black Hawk War Burials
Black Hawk War Service Records

Mexican War Burials
Mexican War
Year: 1846 - 1848
Service Members: 78,718
Battle Deaths: 1,733

Civil War Enlistments
Year: 1861 - 1865
Service Members:
Confederate-600,000-1,500,000 Battle Deaths: 74,524
Union - 2,213,363 Battle Deaths: 140,414

Civil War Service Records
Adjutant General's Report
Civil War Widows Pensions Applications
1883 Pensioners List

Civil War Prisoners of War
Transcription from Newspaper
Civil War Veterans
Transcription from Newspaper

Admission Records of Jefferson County Residents
to the Soldiers & Sailors Home

Illinois Copperheads and the American Civil War
Copperheads was a pejorative epithet applied to Northern members of the Democratic party, also known as Peace Democrats, who criticized the presidential administration of Abraham Lincoln for its war policies and who sought an armistice with the Confederacy.

Spanish - American War
Spanish American War Enlistments
Year: 1898 - 1902
Service Members: 306,760
Battle Deaths: 385

World War I Draft
Year: 1917 - 1918
Service Members: 4,734,991
Battle Deaths: 53,402
WWI Service Men Photographs

World War II
World War II Casualties
World War II Military Honor Medals
Year: 1940 - 1945
Service Members: 16,112,566
Battle Deaths: 291,557

Korean War
Korean War Casualties
1950 - 1953
Service Members: 5,720,000
Battle Deaths: 33,686
Our Men in Service Newspaper Articles

Vietnam War
Vietnam War Casualties
Year: 1964 - 1975 Service Members: 9,200,000
Battle Deaths: 47,410

Persian Gulf War
Desert Shield
Desert Storm
Year: 1990 - 1991
Service Members: 2,322,332
Battle Deaths: 148, Nonbattle Deaths: 145
Army: 98 battle; 105 nonbattle
Navy 6 battle; 8 nonbattle
Marines: 24 battle; 26 nonbattle
Air Force: 20 battle; 6 nonbattle
Women killed, 15
U.S. wounded in action: 467.

OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM
Iraq War
Year: 2003 - 2011
includes casualties that occurred between
Mar 19, 2003, and Aug 31, 2010
Service Members:
Total Deaths: 4,412
KIA: 3,482
Non-Hostile: 930 as of
December 30, 2014

OPERATION NEW DAWN U.S.CASUALTY STATUS **
FATALITIES AS OF: December 30, 2014
OPERATION NEW DAWN
Includes casualties that occurred between Sep 1, 2010, and Dec 31, 2011
Total Deaths: 66
KIA: 38
Non-Hostile 28

OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM U.S. CASUALTY STATUS
FATALITIES AS OF: December 30, 2014
Total Deaths: 2,356
KIA: 1,846
Non-Hostile: 510

OPERATION INHERENT RESOLVE U.S. CASUALTY STATUS
AS OF December 30, 2014

Total Deaths: 3
KIA: 0
Non-Hostile: 3

For corrections or additions, please contact me: Sandy Bauer