Descriptive and Historical Register of Enlisted Soldiers of the Army

Descriptive and Historical Register of Enlisted Soldiers of the Army

Register of Enlistments

Second Seminole War, 1835-1842

Veterans--Florida

The Descriptive and Historical Register of Enlisted Soldiers of the Army is a record of all the individuals who enlisted in the United States Army between 1798-1914. The register includes information about the individual’s age at time of enlistment, birthplace, occupation, physical description, rank, and date and cause of discharge. This page of the Register of Enlistments has an entry for Cornelius Donovan.

Cornelius Donovan was born in Cork, Ireland, in 1813. In 1834, he enlisted in the United States Army out of Frederick, Maryland. Private Donovan served with the 4th Infantry Regiment during the Second Seminole War. He died on December 28, 1835, during the Dade Massacre. He is memorialized at St. Augustine National Cemetery in Florida.

In 2017, the University of Central Florida was one of three universities selected to launch the National Cemetery Administration’s Veterans Legacy Program Project. The program engaged a team of scholars to make the life stories of veterans buried in the Florida National Cemetery available to the public. The project engages UCF students in research and writing and fosters collaboration between students, faculty and local Central Florida schools to produce interactive curriculum for K-12 students. The corresponding website exhibit uses RICHES Mosaic Interface to create a digital archive of related data. The public can use the project-developed augmented-reality app at more than 100 gravesites at the Florida National Cemetery, where they can access the UCF student-authored biographies of veterans.

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Digital reproduction of original US Army Register of Enlistments, 1798-1914

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Napier, Walter

Stoddard, James

National Archives Microfilm Publication M233, 81 rolls; Records of the Adjutant General’s Office, 1780’s-1917, Record Group 94; National Archives, Washington, D.C.

“U.S. Army, Register of Enlistments, 1798-1914,” database, Ancestry.com (https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?_phsrc=cTX206&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&indiv=1&db=usarmyenlistments&gsfn=cornelius&gsln=donovan&gsln_x=NN&msbdy=1813&new=1&rank=1&redir=false&uidh=r15&gss=angs-d&pcat=39&fh=1&h=116660&recoff=6&ml_rpos=2&requr=9288674231746560&ur=0&lang=en-US: accessed January 10, 2020), entry for Cornelius Donovan.