When it comes to military records in GenealogyBank, we often think of the obituaries and articles that appeared in America’s newspapers over the past three centuries.
I have written many times about the millions of newspaper articles reporting stories of our military ancestors that have served, from the Colonial wars down to the present.
But wait, there’s more.
GenealogyBank includes the series of Army Registers, Navy Registers, etc., that were published annually from the mid-1800s to modern times.
Each annual Register gives detailed information about the officers who served the nation – with important core facts about their lives: information like their date and place of birth; dates of service; rank advancement; duty stations; and similar information.
I have taken the Official Army Register for 1910 as an example and extracted the basic information for 2,000 of the officers that were serving that year as a Veterans Day tribute to them – and as a reminder to family historians to dig into all of the sources contained in GenealogyBank.
Here is a partial list of those officers – more to come.
Name | Date of Birth | Birth Place | Service | Register Page |
Bishop, Joel S. | 11 February 1850 | Wisconsin | 15th Regiment of Cavalry | 1910. page 178 |
Bispham, William N. | 22 May 1875 | Virginia | Medical Department | 1910. page 43 |
Bixby, William H. | 27 December 1849 | Massachusetts | Corps of Engineers | 1910. page 75 |
Black, Hanson B. | 5 December 1874 | Maryland | Signal Corps | 1910. page 98 |
Black, Roger D. | 18 January 1883 | New York | Corps of Engineers | 1910. page 84 |
Black, William M. | 8 December 1855 | Pennsylvania | Corps of Engineers | 1910. page 75 |
Blaine, Robert | 24 March 1878 | Iowa | 10th Regiment of Cavalry | 1910. page 159 |
Blair, Winn | 28 February 1879 | Alabama | 7th Regiment of Cavalry | 1910. page 144 |
Blakely, Charles S. | 6 November 1880 | Pennsylvania | 3rd Regiment of Field Artillery | 1910. page 191 |
Blanchard, Robert M. | 4 September 1874 | Missouri | Medical Corps. | 1910. page 47 |
Blauvelt, William F. | 11 May 1851 | New York | Pay Department | 1910. page 71 |
Bliss, Tasker H. | 31 December 1853 | Pennsylvania | General Officer | 1910. page 6 |
Blocksom, Augustus P. | 7 November 1854 | Ohio | 13th Regiment of Cavalry | 1910. page 169 |
Bloom, Jacob E. | 21 April 1851 | Ohio | Subsistence Department | 1910. page 31 |
Bloombergh, Horace D. | 27 October 1877 | Pennsylvania | Medical Department | 1910. page 45 |
Blunt, Stanhope E. | 29 September 1850 | Massachusetts | Ordnance Department | 1910. page 88 |
Boggs, Frank C. | 16 March 1874 | New Jersey | Corps of Engineers | 1910. page 80 |
Boice, Charles H. | 18 October 1864 | New York | 7th Regiment of Cavalry | 1910. page 142 |
Bolles, Frank C. | 25 September 1872 | Illinois | Quartermaster’s Department | 1910. page 25 |
Bond, Paul S. | 18 April 1879 | New York | Corps of Engineers | 1910. page 82 |
Boniface, John J. | 24 November 1874 | New York | 2nd Regiment of Cavalry | 1910. page 119 |
Booth, Ewing E. | 28 February 1870 | Missouri | 7th Regiment of Cavalry | 1910. page 142 |
Borden, William B. | 15 April 1880 | North Carolina | Medical Department | 1910. page 68 |
Bosley, John R. | 8 November 1876 | Maryland | Medical Department | 1910. page 50 |
Boughton, Daniel H. | 27 August 1858 | Minnesota | 5th Regiment of Cavalry | 1910. page 132 |
Bourke, James | 24 November 1869 | Ireland | Medical Corps. | 1910. page 47 |
Bow n, Albert S. | 28 July 1879 | Iowa | Medical Department | 1910. page 65 |
Bowdish, Myron B. | 14 July 1872 | Pennsylvania | 7th Regiment of Cavalry | 1910. page 144 |
Bowie, Hamilton | 26 June 1877 | Georgia | 9th Regiment of Cavalry | 1910. page 153 |
Bowley, Albert J. | 24 November 1875 | California | 1st Regiment of Field Artillery | 1910. page 182 |
Bowman, George T. | 12 June 1869 | New York | 15th Regiment of Cavalry | 1910. page 179 |
Bowman, Madison H. | 23 November 1865 | Kentucky | Medical Department | 1910. page 59 |
Boyd, Carl | 3 March 1878 | Vermont | 3rd Regiment of Cavalry | 1910. page 126 |
Boyd, Charles T. | 29 October 1870 | Iowa | 10th Regiment of Cavalry | 1910. page 157 |
Boyer, Perry L. | 18 November 1877 | Virginia | Medical Department | 1910. page 46 |
Brabson, Joe R. | 12 June 1884 | Tennessee | 3rd Regiment of Field Artillery | 1910. page 191 |
Bradley, Alfred E. | 25 November 1864 | New York | Medical Department | 1910. page 37 |
Brainard, David L. | 21 December 1856 | New York | Subsistence Department | 1910. page 29 |
Brander, William W. | 14 July 1867 | Virginia | Chaplains | 1910. page 103 |
Brant, Gerald C. | 29 June 1880 | Iowa | 9th Regiment of Cavalry | 1910. page 154 |
Bratton, Thomas S. | 10 August 1868 | South Carolina | Medical Department | 1910. page 39 |
Brechemin, Louis, Jr. | 21 February 1877 | Pennsylvania | Medical Department | 1910. page 45 |
Brechemin, Louis | 25 May 1852 | Pennsylvania | Medical Department | 1910. page 35 |
Brennan, Neil P. | 10 November 1873 | Massachusetts | Chaplains | 1910. page 105 |
Brett, Lloyd M. | 22 February 1856 | Maine | 1st Regiment of Cavalry | 1910. page 114 |
Brett, Morgan L. | 25 January 1881 | Ohio | Ordnance Department | 1910. page 94 |
Brewer, Charles M. | 19 December 1877 | Alabama | Chaplains | 1910. page 104 |
Brewer, Edwin P. | 16 April 1854 | Ohio | 7th Regiment of Cavalry | 1910. page 141 |
Brewer, Isaac W. | 3 November 1867 | Kansas | Medical Department | 1910. page 56 |
Brewster, Alden F. | 30 July 1877 | Illinois | 2nd Regiment of Field Artillery | 1910. page 186 |
Brewster, André W. | 9 December 1862 | New Jersey | Inspector General’s Department | 1910. page 16 |
Briand, Christian | 10 May 1863 | Denmark | 15th Regiment of Cavalry | 1910. page 180 |
Bricker, Edwin D. | 24 November 1875 | Pennsylvania | Ordnance Department | 1910. page 91 |
Briscoe, N. Butler | 1 April 1885 | West Virginia | 1st Regiment of Cavalry | 1910. page 117 |
Bristol, Matt C. | 4 July 1873 | England | 3rd Regiment of Cavalry | 1910. page 125 |
Broadhurst, Hugh H. | 14 July 1880 | North Carolina | 15th Regiment of Cavalry | 1910. page 181 |
Brodie, Alexander O. | 13 November 1849 | New York | Adjutant General’s Department | 1910. page 11 |
Bromwell, Charles S. | 1 May 1869 | Kentucky | Corps of Engineers | 1910. page 78 |
Brooke, George M. | 17 May 1875 | Virginia | 4th Regiment of Field Artillery | 1910. page 194 |
Brooke, Mark | 27 August 1876 | South Carolina | Corps of Engineers | 1910. page 83 |
Brooke, Roger, Jr. | 14 June 1878 | Maryland | Medical Department | 1910. page 45 |
Brooke, William | 22 November 1864 | Pennsylvania | Quartermaster’s Department | 1910. page 24 |
Brooks, William H. | 7 May 1868 | North Carolina | Medical Department | 1910. page 44 |
Brown, Earl I. | 13 October 1874 | Georgia | Corps of Engineers | 1910. page 80 |
Brown, Henry A. | 12 May 1864 | Ohio | Chaplains | 1910. page 102 |
Brown, Henry L. | 17 September 1873 | Indiana | Medical Department | 1910. page 51 |
Brown, Ira C. | 19 October 1861 | New York | Medical Department | 1910. page 55 |
Brown, John K. | 13 August 1885 | Minnesota | 2nd Regiment of Cavalry | 1910. page 122 |
Brown, Levi G. | 2 August 1879 | Mississippi | 12th Regiment of Cavalry | 1910. page 168 |
Brown, Lewis, Jr. | 11 February 1876 | Rhode Island | 7th Regiment of Cavalry | 1910. page 143 |
Brown, Lytle | 22 November 1872 | Tennessee | Corps of Engineers | 1910. page 80 |
Brown, Orville G. | 26 May 1874 | Washington, D.C. | Medical Department | 1910. page 50 |
Brown, Polk D. | 8 September 1875 | Tennessee | Medical Department | 1910. page 60 |
Brown, William C. | 19 December 1854 | Minnesota | 3rd Regiment of Cavalry | 1910. page 123 |
Brown, Wilmont E. | 1 June 1873 | Ohio | Medical Department | 1910. page 60 |
Browne, Rhodric W. | 15 October 1872 | Massachusetts | Medical Department | 1910. page 64 |
Browning, William S. | 5 July 1877 | New York | 1st Regiment of Field Artillery | 1910. page 183 |
Brownlee, Charles Y. | 19 August 1867 | Louisiana | Medical Department | 1910. page 44 |
Bruff, Lawrence L. | 14 October 1851 | Maryland | Ordnance Department | 1910. page 88 |
Brush, Daniel H. | 9 May 1848 | Illinois | General Officer | 1910. page 8 |
Bryan, Ray W. | 19 July 1876 | Indiana | Medical Department | 1910. page 52 |
Bryson, James H. | 29 October 1875 | Georgia | 4th Regiment of Field Artillery | 1910. page 194 |
Buchan, Fred E. | 5 October 1873 | Kansas | 9th Regiment of Cavalry | 1910. page 152 |
Buchanan, Edmund A. | 4 September 1877 | Pennsylvania | 2nd Regiment of Cavalry | 1910. page 121 |
Buck, Carroll D. | 8 June 1876 | Vermont | Medical Department | 1910. page 44 |
Bull, Henry T. | 28 May 1880 | Pennsylvania | 13th Regiment of Cavalry | 1910. page 172 |
Bundesen, Herman N. | 27 April 1882 | Prussia | Medical Department | 1910. page 68 |
Bundy, Omar | 17 June 1861 | Indiana | Inspector General’s Department | 1910. page 15 |
Bunker, Charles M. | 16 October 1869 | Connecticut | 4th Regiment of Field Artillery | 1910. page 194 |
Burch, Bruce L. | 16 February 1881 | Alabama | 14th Regiment of Cavalry | 1910. page 177 |
Burgess, Harry | 22 February 1872 | Mississippi | Corps of Engineers | 1910. page 80 |
Burket, John A. | 5 July 1882 | Iowa | Medical Department | 1910. page 64 |
Burleson, Richard C. | 29 January 1880 | Texas | Ordnance Department | 1910. page 93 |
Burnett, Charles | 28 October 1877 | Tennessee | 4th Regiment of Cavalry | 1910. page 129 |
Burns, James H. | 13 September 1885 | New York | 1st Regiment of Field Artillery | 1910. page 184 |
Burr, Edward | 19 May 1859 | Missouri | Corps of Engineers | 1910. page 76 |
Burr, George W. | 3 December 1865 | Illinois | Ordnance Department | 1910. page 89 |
Burroughs, James M. | 1 November 1869 | Texas | 12th Regiment of Cavalry | 1910. page 166 |
Burt, William H. | 22 February 1876 | Massachusetts | Pay Department | 1910. page 74 |
Bushnell, George E. | 10 September 1853 | Massachusetts | Medical Department | 1910. page 35 |
Butler, Matthew C., Jr. | 1 May 1864 | South Carolina | 7th Regiment of Cavalry | 1910. page 141 |
Butler, Rodman | 26 November 1872 | Virginia | 6th Regiment of Cavalry | 1910. page 139 |
Butner, Henry W. | 6 April 1875 | North Carolina | 2nd Regiment of Field Artillery | 1910. page 185 |
Butt, Archibald W. | 25-Sep | Georgia | Quartermaster’s Department | 1910. page 24 |
Byram, George L. | 19 January 1862 | Mississippi | 6th Regiment of Cavalry | 1910. page 136 |
Byrne, Charles B. | 28 January 1846 | Maryland | Medical Department | 1910. page 34 |
Cabell, De Rosey C. | 7 July 1861 | Arkansas | 1st Regiment of Cavalry | 1910. page 114 |
Cabell, Lawrence D. | 22 August 1874 | Texas | Quartermaster’s Department | 1910. page 27 |
Caldwell, Frank M. | 8 November 1866 | New York | 11th Regiment of Cavalry | 1910. page 165 |
Caldwell, Ralph C. | 27 September 1876 | Ohio | 7th Regiment of Cavalry | 1910. page 143 |
Calvert, Edward | 10 November 1870 | Kentucky | 9th Regiment of Cavalry | 1910. page 153 |
Cameron, Francis H., Jr. | 20 October 1872 | North Carolina | 15th Regiment of Cavalry | 1910. page 179 |
Cameron, George H. | 8 January 1861 | Illinois | 14th Regiment of Cavalry | 1910. page 173 |
Camp, Beauford R. | 7 March 1875 | Virginia | 9th Regiment of Cavalry | 1910. page 154 |
Campbell, George F. | 29 December 1868 | Scotland | Medical Department | 1910. page 62 |
Campbell, Robert M. | 28 August 1880 | Maryland | 12th Regiment of Cavalry | 1910. page 168 |
Campbell, Tilman | 1 February 1874 | Arkansas | 3rd Regiment of Field Artillery | 1910. page 190 |
Canby, James | 24 December 1863 | Delaware | Pay Department | 1910. page 71 |
Cannon, William C. | 28 October 1860 | Indiana | Quartermaster’s Department | 1910. page 23 |
Caples, William G. | 21 August 1878 | Missouri | Corps of Engineers | 1910. page 82 |
Card, Daniel P. | 29 July 1878 | New York | Medical Department | 1910. page 53 |
Carey, Edward C. | 20 April 1871 | New Mexico | Pay Department | 1910. page 73 |
Carr, Daniel J. | 25 November 1860 | Connecticut | Signal Corps | 1910. page 96 |
Carr, William B. | 23 October 1884 | Virginia | Medical Department | 1910. page 66 |
Carson, John M., jr | 26 June 1864 | Pennsylvania | Quartermaster’s Department | 1910. page 21 |
Carson, Lawrence S. | 26 January 1867 | South Carolina | 8th Regiment of Cavalry | 1910. page 148 |
Carson, Thomas G. | 3 July 1871 | Illinois | 10th Regiment of Cavalry | 1910. page 156 |
Carswell, Robert L. | 5 August 1876 | Georgia | Medical Department | 1910. page 48 |
Carter, Edward Champe | 7 July 1854 | Virginia | Medical Department | 1910. page 36 |
Carter, Jesse McI | 12 April 1863 | Missouri | 14th Regiment of Cavalry | 1910. page 173 |
Carter, William H. | 19 November 1851 | Tennessee | General Officer | 1910. page 6 |
Carter, William V. | 30 January 1883 | Arizona | 6th Regiment of Cavalry | 1910. page 139 |
Cartmell, Nathaniel M. | 15 June 1875 | Virginia | 10th Regiment of Cavalry | 1910. page 158 |
Casad, Adam F. | 9 February 1878 | Indiana | Ordnance Department | 1910. page 93 |
Case, David B. | 15 May 1855 | Pennsylvania | Subsistence Department | 1910. page 31 |
Case, Frank L. | 10 December 1866 | Ohio | 4th Regiment of Cavalry | 1910. page 128 |
Case, Rolland W. | 26 May 1882 | Michigan | Ordnance Department | 1910. page 94 |
Casey, Thomas L. | 19 February 1857 | New York | Corps of Engineers | 1910. page 75 |
Casper, Joseph | 17 January 1880 | New Jersey | Medical Department | 1910. page 65 |
Cass, Lewis W. | 3 November 1871 | Tennessee | 12th Regiment of Cavalry | 1910. page 167 |
Casteel, Delphey T. E. | 17 September 1863 | Maryland | 6th Regiment of Cavalry | 1910. page 137 |
Castle, Charles W. | 21 August 1872 | Minnesota | Pay Department | 1910. page 73 |
Castleman, James P. | 11 February 1877 | Kentucky | 10th Regiment of Cavalry | 1910. page 159 |
Castner, Joseph C. | 18 November 1869 | New Jersey | Quartermaster’s Department | 1910. page 24 |
Cathro, Thomas E. | 1 September 1879 | Indiana | 13th Regiment of Cavalry | 1910. page 172 |
Cavanaugh, James B. | 6 June 1869 | Illinois | Corps of Engineers | 1910. page 79 |
Cavenaugh, Harry La T. | 8 January 1872 | Utah | 10th Regiment of Cavalry | 1910. page 157 |
Chaffee, Adna R., jr | 23 September 1884 | Kansas | 15th Regiment of Cavalry | 1910. page 181 |
Chamberlain, John L. | 20 January 1858 | New York | Inspector General’s Department | 1910. page 14 |
Chamberlain, Weston P. | 4 June 1871 | Maine | Medical Department | 1910. page 40 |
Chamberlin, Harry B. | 1 November 1862 | Vermont | Quartermaster’s Department | 1910. page 23 |
Chandler, Charles de F. | 24 December 1878 | Ohio | Signal Corps | 1910. page 97 |
Chandler, Clark P. | 30 March 1886 | Minnesota | 11th Regiment of Cavalry | 1910. page 164 |
Chapin, Frank K. | 29 January 1884 | New York | 9th Regiment of Cavalry | 1910. page 154 |
Chapman, Carleton G. | 4 June 1886 | Georgia | 7th Regiment of Cavalry | 1910. page 145 |
Chapman, Leslie A. I. | 27 July 1873 | Wisconsin | 2nd Regiment of Cavalry | 1910. page 119 |
Chase, Alpha M. | 5 April 1873 | Illinois | Medical Department | 1910. page 60 |
Chase, Chauncey L. | 22 March 1874 | Illinois | Medical Department | 1910. page 63 |
Chase, Edward R. | 19 August 1872 | Maine | Chaplains | 1910. page 105 |
Chase, George F. | 29 July 1848 | Illinois | Inspector General’s Department | 1910. page 14 |
Cheatham, B. Frank | 20 May 1867 | Tennessee | Quartermaster’s Department | 1910. page 22 |
Cheever, Benjamin H. | 7 June 1850 | Washington, D.C. | 3rd Regiment of Cavalry | 1910. page 123 |
Cheney, Robert M. | 29 September 1884 | Georgia | 4th Regiment of Cavalry | 1910. page 130 |
Cheney, Sherwood A. | 24 August 1873 | Connecticut | Corps of Engineers | 1910. page 80 |
Chenoweth, John F. | 24 November 1869 | Indiana | Chaplains | 1910. page 104 |
Chittenden, Hiram M. | 25 October 1858 | New York | Corps of Engineers | 1910. page 77 |
Chitty, William D. | 31 May 1871 | Missouri | 4th Regiment of Cavalry | 1910. page 128 |
Chouinard, Horace A. | 31 December 1872 | Wisconsin | Chaplains | 1910. page 105 |
Christian, John B. | 30 August 1870 | Missouri | 9th Regiment of Cavalry | 1910. page 151 |
Christie, Arthur C. | 29 December 1879 | Pennsylvania | Medical Department | 1910. page 52 |
Christy, William C. | 25 November 1885 | Arizona | 5th Regiment of Cavalry | 1910. page 135 |
Churchill, Marlborough | 11 August 1878 | Massachusetts | 3rd Regiment of Field Artillery | 1910. page 190 |
Church, James R. | 11 October 1866 | Illinois | Medical Department | 1910. page 41 |
Clark, Charles H. | 29 April 1851 | Massachusetts | Ordnance Department | 1910. page 88 |
Clark, Elmer W. | 29 March 1869 | Pennsylvania | Quartermaster’s Department | 1910. page 25 |
Clark, Henry B. | 15 April 1874 | Wisconsin | Quartermaster’s Department | 1910. page 26 |
Clark, John A. | 9 May 1873 | New Jersey | Medical Department | 1910. page 48 |
Clark, William F. | 10 March 1865 | Indiana | Pay Department | 1910. page 73 |
Clarke, Joseph T. | 24 October 1862 | Washington, D.C. | Medical Department | 1910. page 38 |
Clarke, Walter L. | 10 March 1863 | Illinois | Signal Corps | 1910. page 96 |
Clayton, Bertram T. | 19 October 1862 | Alabama | Quartermaster’s Department | 1910. page 23 |
Clayton, George R. | 9 July 1871 | Iowa | Medical Department | 1910. page 60 |
Clayton, Jere B. | 19 April 1872 | Pennsylvania | Medical Department | 1910. page 40 |
Clayton, Powell, Jr. | 30 July 1871 | Arkansas | 11th Regiment of Cavalry | 1910. page 162 |
Clem, John L. | 13 August 1851 | Ohio | Quartermaster’s Department | 1910. page 19 |
Clemens, Joseph | 9 December 1862 | England | Chaplains | 1910. page 103 |
Clifton, Alfred T. | 26 May 1875 | Washington, D.C. | Signal Corps | 1910. page 97 |
Clopton, William H. | 13 December 1878 | Missouri | 13th Regiment of Cavalry | 1910. page 171 |
Coburn, Henry C., Jr. | 5 August 1879 | Washington, D.C. | Medical Department | 1910. page 53 |
Cocke, John | 8 September 1875 | New Jersey | 15th Regiment of Cavalry | 1910. page 180 |
Coffey, Albion M. | 6 October 1874 | Missouri | Medical Department | 1910. page 61 |
Coffin, Jacob M. | 10 June 1878 | Pennsylvania | Medical Department | 1910. page 48 |
Cohen, Hyman M. | 25 December 1874 | New York | Medical Department | 1910. page 67 |
Coiner, Richard T. | 26 December 1882 | Iowa | Corps of Engineers | 1910. page 87 |
Cole, Blase | 21 November 1880 | New Jersey | Medical Department | 1910. page 68 |
Cole, Casper W. | 3 May 1871 | Maine | 9th Regiment of Cavalry | 1910. page 153 |
Cole, Henry G. | 6 May 1869 | Georgia | Subsistence Department | 1910. page 31 |
Cole, James A. | 4 November 1861 | New York | 6th Regiment of Cavalry | 1910. page 136 |
Here is how I found that annual register. First, on the GenealogyBank home page, select “Government Publications” under the “Collections” tab.
Then, on the Government Publications search page, type “official army register for 1910” in the keywords box and hit the search button.
This brings up the complete Official Army Register for 1910.
Note: the exact title of the Army Registers varied over the years, but the phrase “army register” is the key.