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