The following selections lead to various indices of military and civil service pension records. At present, only the indices are provided, which should give you the information needed to research these records from the National Archives and Records Administration. Eventually, abstracted data from the available files will be included for many of these. The files overlap years reflecting the years of the pensions, not the years of the service performed.
Index of Pension Records - 1812
Index of Pension Records - 1815-1926
Index of Pension Records - 1861-1934
Index of Pension Records - 1887-1926
Index of Pension Records - 1892-1926
Index of Pension Records - Civil War, Remarried Widows