• 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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• 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Opened Up Kentucky & The West To American Settlement - (Book - Amazon.com) : Unique to this volume are the previously unpublished set of ledgers that include 3 broad categories of information: the names of the rangers called out to protect the Virginia frontier in 1773 and 1774 and the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... -

• 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. -

• American Citizens, British Slaves: Yankee Political Prisoners in an Australian Penal Colony, 1839-1850 - (Book - Amazon.com) : American Citizens, British Slaves tells the strange story of almost a hundred United States citizens who were transported to Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) in 1839-40. As members of the Patriot Army that had conducted border raids into the colony of Upper Canada in 1838, they saw themselves as courageous republican activists. Instead of heroic liberators, they became political prisoners of Her Majesty's government.
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• 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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• Encyclopedia of United States Army Insignia and Uniforms - (Book - Amazon.com) : Click on link to read customer and editorial reviews.
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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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• Navy Survivors' Certificates 1861-1910 - (Database Online - Footnote) : A typical pension includes the application and original jacket; a brief of the case prepared by the Pension Bureau; a statement of the service record supplied by the Navy Department; affidavits, and other documentary evidence submitted in support of the claim; correspondence from interested persons; and occasionally a certificate of discharge, a death certificate, and papers relating to claims for burial expenses. Requires payment. -

• Navy Widows' Certificates 1861-1910 - (Database Online - Footnote) : Within this publication, you can search approximately 20,000 approved pension applications of widows and other dependents of US Navy veterans who served between 1861 and 1910, originally filmed by NARA. Search for a name, ship, place, or keyword. Or, use the browse menus to locate a sailor by surname. Case files include where and when a man served, details of his service, his life before the war, and his family, including information about his widow, children, and sometimes his parents. Requires payment. -

• 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. -

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