Military Records

Your ancestors will be more interesting if you learn about their military service and the history of their units. Military records can also give birth dates, marriage dates, death dates, spouse and children’s names, and localities of residence throughout the life of the family.

Mormon Battalion and the Mexican War - $/Free
This page provides information about a database of Selected Pension Applications as filmed by the National Archives and digitally published online by Footnote. I also provide two different manuscripts which detail the history of the Mormon Battalion.

Old First Massachusetts Coast Artillery - Free
This manuscript depicts the history of the Old First Massachusetts and provides the names of the Captains of each company from its origination through 1917. Old First Massachusetts Coast Artillery in War and Peace: By Frederick Morse Cutler, B.D., First Lieutenant, Chaplain, published in 1917.

Revolutionary War Service Records - $
FootNote has provided scanned images of the National Archives collection: War Department Collection of Revolutionary War Records online. The documents that were scanned were "abstract cards" and the transcriptions of documents pertaining only to one soldier, that were done in lieu of a card for that item. This is a nice collection of original source material! - Added 26 Sept 2007