"The Civil War provided the first recorded incident of American soldiers making an effort to ensure that their identities would be known should they die on the battlefield." (Captain Richard W. Wooley, Quatermaster Profession Bulletin, December 1988).

Site Resources

• Alexander, Joseph, ID Disk
• Bailey, Eben; biography, id disk
• Barber, Lawson E., id disk
• Braun, Charles, ID Disk
• Buzzell, Samuel D., id disk
• Carpenter, Amasas, id disk
• Crother, Somerville, ID Disk
• Dunbar, Henry, id disk
• Eaton, Joseph, id disk
• Fisher, Oscar, ID Disk
• Gardner, Horace, ID Disk
• Goodno, Martin, ID Disk
• Hall, Merrill, id disk
• Hamilton, Eugene, ID Disk
• Headle, David, ID Disk
• Huntoon, Hiram, ID Disk
• Jacobs, Elias, ID Disk
• Leonard, Henry, ID Disk
• McLam, James, id disk
• Morey, Norman, id disk
• Morse, William, id disk
• Patch, David, id disk
• Perkins, Edwin, ID Disk
• Piper, Charles, id disk
• Quimby, Daniel, ID Disk
• Sawyer, Joshua, ID Disk
• Sheldon, Charles G., correspondence, photograph
• Sheldon, Charles, ID Disk
• Slayton, Austin, ID Disk
• Smith, Edward, id disk
• Stevens, Calvin, ID Disk
• Stewart, Dexter, ID Disk
• Tracy, William, ID Disk
• Truax, Charles, ID Disk
• Turner, Edwin, ID Disk
• Ward, Frank, ID Disk
• Washburn, William, ID Disk
• Welch, Bartholomew, id disk

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Links

• A Short History of Identification Tags
• Ballou, Horace, ID Disk
• Personnel Identification: A Working Bibliography of MHI Sources
• Richardson, George, ID Disk
• Titus, Spears; ID Disk