• Bibliography of Military Name Lists from Pre-1675 to 1900 - (Book - Amazon.com) : A Guide to Genealogical Research. This annotated bibliography gleans from more than 400 genealogy and history periodicals articles listing military men in America's wars from the Colonial era to the Spanish-American War, whether their names appeared on tombstones or in roster lists, pension records, reunion rosters, or old newspapers.
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• Colonial Soldiers of the South, 1732-1774 - (Book - Amazon.com) : The American colonies were organized into military defense districts, for no regular army existed to protect settlers from marauders or from rebellion within. On alarm, colonists formed militia companies from their own ranks to go to the scene of action. When the emergency ended, these trained bands retired. Records of these companies exist, but those of the South are widely scattered. After a thorough investigation of a wide variety of source materials, Mrs. Clark has organized them into a logical and convenient form. The records are chiefly muster rolls and pay rolls of the militias of Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina, and Georgia, and they identify about 55,000 soldiers by name, rank, date, militia company, and district. Other records provide data on age, height, country of birth, occupation, and date and place of enlistment. Also, there are the Scotch Highlanders in Oglethorpe's Georgia regiment, recruits who served under Washington's ensign in Virginia, and the ordinary settlers and frontiersmen who did their duty. This source book is a milestone in colonial genealogy and history.
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• Encyclopedia of United States Army Insignia and Uniforms - (Book - Amazon.com) : Click on link to read customer and editorial reviews.
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• Foreign origins : comprising an enumeration of men of foreign birth enlisted in the United States Army from 1798 to 1815 - (Book - Amazon.com) -

• Genealogical Data from United States Military Academy Application Papers, 1805-1866, Volume 1 - (Book - Amazon.com) : The data collected is from the first 124 (of 242) reels of microfilm at the National Archives and the data is taken from personal handwritten applications from young men mailed directly to the US Secretary or War. There is much hidden genealogical information that is not shown in any other source. The applicants in many cases identified grandparents and great grandparents, many of the men being veterans of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. The genealogical information for those males who applied and did not get into West Point is also available in this book.
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• Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army from Its Organization, September 29, 1789, to March 2, 1903 - (Book - Amazon.com) : This is a complete list of commissioned officers of the U.S. from the organization of the Army, September 29, 1789, to the year of the list's original publication in 1903, giving the officers' full names and showing their services as cadets and all services as officers or enlisted men, either in the regular or volunteer service. The heart of the work, Part II, an alphabetical listing of the officers, runs to some 60,000 entries. Each entry contains a brief paragraph on the officer giving his state or country where born, state from which originally appointed, date of induction, rank, date of discharge, promotions, medals, battles participated in, and, in about a fifth of the entries, date of death after leaving the Army. This monumental book is actually a lot more than a listing of the officer corps, as crucial as that is. Rather, it is a handbook on the men, events, and terminology of American military life during the years of its coverage.
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• How to Locate Anyone Who Is or Has Been in the Military - (Book - Amazon.com) : Contents : Locating Active Duty Military; Locating Reserve & National Guard; Locating Retired Military; Locating Veterans; Military Records; Locating Women Veterans; Verifying Military Service; Locating Veterans for a Reunion; Is a Veteran Deceased?Locating Birthparents Who Served in the Military; Family Histories for Veterans; Computer & Internet Searches; Other Methods; Directories of Military; Installations/Coast Guard and Navy Ships; Directory of State Resources ; State-Held Military Records; Directory of Military and Patriotic Organizations; Directory of Military Reunions; Social Security Numbers; Military Service Numbers; Forms and Worksheets; Helpful Publications; Military Rankings/Selective Service Chronology; Glossary.
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• Lord Dunmore's Little War of 1774 : His Captains And Their Men Who Opened Up Kentucky & The West To American Settlement - (Book - Amazon.com) : Unique to this volume are the previously unpublished set of ledgers that include 3 broad categories of information: the names of the rangers called out to protect the Virginia frontier in 1773 and 1774 and the pay owed them, the militiamen that served soon after in Dunmore’s War proper, and the sums due the farmers and merchants that put in claims for goods and services that supported this effort. These long lists, taken together, contain about 38,000 entries and caught the many of the men (and their occasional widows) living in western Virginia and southwestern Pennsylvania in 1775. Read more... -

• Memoir of a French and Indian War Soldier by 'Jolicoeur' Charles Bonin - (Book - Amazon.com) : This memoir is unique. It is not only a first-person account of the French and Indian War, a scarce commodity, but it is also the work of a common soldier, rarer still. Charles Bonin's story reads as if the reader were sharing wine with the old veteran in a Paris cafe. It was first published in Quebec by Abbe H. R. Casgrain in 1887. In 1941, the Pennsylvania Historical Commission translated Casgrain's work. This edition includes the notes of the previous editions and additional explanations by Mr. Gallup, 1745-1761. 1993, maps, index, paper, 254 pp. -

• Pensioners of the United States, 1818 - (Book - Genealogical.com) : Part A of this book contains two sections. The first includes the names of 3,814 disabled pensioners--arranged alphabetically under each state or territory--with their rank and annual stipend. The second section lists half-pay pensioners (who relinquished bounty land), as well as names of guardians and heirs. Part B contains the names of 2,086 additional deceased pensioners with their rank, monthly and annual stipend, starting dates of the pension, notation of widows or orphans, and occasional added remarks. -

• Soldiers in King Philip's War - (Book - Genealogical.com) : This is the definitive study of the Indian war of New England known as "King Philip's War" (1675-1677), with muster and payrolls of colonial soldiers, both regular and militia, and biographical and genealogical sketches integrated throughout the narrative. Also included are lists of grantees and claimants of the Narragansett townships of Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, and Connecticut. The work as a whole is ably researched, intelligently written, well illustrated, and fully indexed, the index of persons alone bearing more than 5,000 references. -

• The French and Indian War from Scottish Sources - (Book - Genealogical.com) : The personal papers of various Scottish combatants, reflecting their nation's participation in or the perspective on that famous conflict, can be found at the National Archives of Scotland in Edinburgh. For his latest book, historian David Dobson has combed through these papers, as well as extracted data from the contemporary journal, the "Scots Magazine," and the newspaper, the "Aberdeen Journal." Dobson's transcriptions identify many of the Scots who took part in the conflict and portray the Scottish vantage point on the war itself. -

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