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Search for a Veteran's Grave in a VA National Cemetery.
American Battle Monuments commission http://www.abmc.gov/
ABMC War Dead http://www.abmc.gov/abmc4.htm
American Battle Monuments commission Mexican War http://www.abmc.gov/abmc41.htm
American Battle Monuments commission Spanish-American War
http://www.abmc.gov/abmc43.htm
Collecting veterans information: http://tottenvillehistory.com/veterans.html

Revolutionary War

• 1840 Revolutionary Pensioners:

  1840 Pensioners
  Revolutionary or military pensioners living in Richmond County at the time of the 1840 census.
  Town	Name	Age	Hsehld of
  Southfield	Amos ROOKE	?	Amos Rooke
  Castleton	John McDONALD	65	Sailors' Snug Harbor
  Castleton	Robert THOMPSON	81	James Thompson

• From Rae: Oath of Allegiance during the Revolution.
• Revolutionary patriots buried on Staten Island FACSI Vol 15 No. 3.
• The Staten Island Daughters of the American Revolution has a Staten Island Chapter Revolutionary War Ancestor List.
• Jana Rooke has typed up Memorial of New York Loyalists from the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record. The search engine will have this indexed with everything else within a few days. Thanks Jana and NYGBS!
• A list of some Patriots according to the DAR: (burials and chapter ancestor lists)
  BARNES, George, BUSH, John, COLE, Abraham, CROPSEY, Harmanus B, EGBERT, Abraham, GIFFORD, William B, HILLYARD, William, LAKE, William, LAKE, William (yes, two by that name), MERRIL, Lambert, MESEREAU, Jacob, MESEREAU, Paul, SHEFFIELD, Robert, TYSEN, John, WANDEL, John
• Daughters of the American Revolution Lineage Books (152 Vols.) and find:
  • Adrian BOGART (1720-99)
  • Abraham COLE (1736/9-1815)
  • Harmanus CROPSEY (1753-1830)
  • Peter DUMONT (1744-1821)
  • Garret ELLIS (1756-1827)
  • John EVERSON (1759-1818)
  • Harmonus GARRISON (1732-1813)
  • William Bernard GIFFORD (1751-1814)
  • John MERCEREAU (1732-1820)
  • Judge Joshua MERSEREAU (1728-1804)
  • Joshua MERSEREAU, Jr. (1758/9-1857)
  • Paul MERSEREAU (1741-1823)
  • Peter PERINE (1727-?)
  • Joseph RIDGWAY
  • Capt. Richard STILLWELL (1734-1801)
  • Cornelius VAN SANTVOORD (1723-?)
  • John VAN PELT (1758-1829)
  • Lieut. Abraham WOGLOM (1731-90)
• 1840 Census of Revolutionary Pensioners. It's on FHL film, order any one of these: 0002321, 0816370, 0594466, 0899835 Item 3, 01064759 Item 3

• * Please check out our Civil War Database.
  
• Making of America - Civil War Documents
• Civil War Draft List is complete. It contains 594 Staten Island residents in 1863 and their towns.
  
• Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War has a National Graves Registration Database - a very large one!
• Staten Island During the Rebellion by Ira K. Morris from Morris's Memorial History of Staten Island, New York
• New! 8/2/05: Civil War Honor Roll contributed by Friends of Abandoned Cemeteries of Staten Island
• Soldier Profiles Charles I and Daniel ELMS
• Soldier Profiles John BOSTROM
• Soldier Profiles James BURKE
• Soldier Profiles George H., Charles Edward, and Oscar F. SMITH
• American Battle Monuments commission Civil War http://www.abmc.gov/abmc42.htm
• Some new information from Lorraine:
  • 5th Veteran NYSV
  • Richmond County GAR
  • 5th NY Infantry Regiment during the Civil War - NY Military Museum and Veterans
  • 4th NY Infantry Regiment during the Civil War - NY Military Museum and Veterans
  • 5th NY Regiment Battle Flag - NY Military Museum and Veterans Research Center
  • 79th New York Volunteer Infantry
  • Co_ A, 5th New York Volunteer Infantry, Duryee's Zouaves
• * janet has finished transcribing the Union Veterans' and Widows' schedule from the 1890 census for all of Richmond County. 1890 Veterans' Schedule.
  
• * Ancestry's Civil War Research Database. Terrific resource. Free, at least for now. Search, but don't be too specific; I didn't find my guys till I dropped the residence. You can get regiment histories, rosters...it's a wonderful resource.
• Find your guy? Use both these:
  • * Ordering records from NYS NYS SARA War Service Records and Searches. $3.
  • * Ordering records from NARA NARA Access to Military Service and Pension Records . $10 each.
• New York in the Civil War a part of the NYGenWeb. Shows lots of promise.
• * United States Army Military History Institute has a Directory of NY Civil War Units (choose artillery, cavalry, engineer, infantry).
• * New York State and the Civil War - a page which covers the state, including some
  • unit descriptions. Lots of links. Strongly recommended.
  • Richmond County GAR Posts.
  • Where the Men were Obtained - for each NYS county, the units that mustered there.
• New York Regimental History bibliography (includes links).
• I love the Civil War Units contacts at the American Civil War Homepage.
• Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System
• From the Making of America site, The draft riots in New York by Barnes, David M.
• From the Making of America site, a chapter from The Negro in the American Rebellion on the Draft Riots, Col. Shaw, etc.
• From an email I received: Cornell University has put the ENTIRE "War of the Rebellion" on the internet!!! Over 60 volumes!!! It includes scanned images of reports, correspondence, seizures of Southern property, etc. sent to the War Dept. during the Civil War. It includes both Union and Confederate accounts. It is in chronological order but there is no online index. Many libraries have the index. Find the volume and page number for your subject in the index at the library. Go to this website http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/browse.monographs/waro.html and you're in business.
  Janet again: There are also Navy records linked at this url.
• FYI: Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, Civil War commander, had Island roots.

• General
  • Soldier Profiles Kenneth W. BURKE Obituary
  • Army Serial Number Merged File
  • New! World War I Dead from:
    • Mother's March list extracted from ancestry.
    • Bob O'Connor has typed up a Roll of Honor from World War I, of casualties, as printed in The Staten Islander on January 15, 1919. Bob points out that this was before the war was over, so more casualties can be expected, but here is the list of our eighty-eight World War I Roll of Honorees.
    • New! Soldiers of the Great War
  • American Battle Monuments commission World War I http://www.abmc.gov/abmc44.htm
  • World War I casualties http://www.americanwardead.com/searchw.htm
  • The Staten Island Advance printed an article about the World War I heroes memorialized at Hero Park. Especially noteworthy are the quotes "Richmond gave more men per capita to the Great War than any other county in the United States" and the notes about the 144 local servicemen who gave their lives in that war.
  • In 1917 and 1918, approximately 24 million men, (98% of men present in America), born between 1873 and 1900 completed draft registration cards. Ancestry has a free database which represents an 8.5% sampling of these Civilian Draft Registrations. Not all, but many, of the registered Staten Islanders are found here. Here is the information you can get if your person is on the database: date of birth, place of birth, ethnicity, registration district number, county, and state. Further, if you get a hit, you can take the district number and go to the National Archives to get a microfilm of the actual card, which contains more information. Ancestry's WWI Civilian Draft Registrations
    If he's not above, you can take a guess as to which district he would be in, if you know where he lived and worked, using NYC Draft Board addresses from the Italian Genealogical Group.
    Staten Island was only four districts, though, and the registrations were filed alphabetically within district, so if your ancestor was born between 1873 and 1900 then risk it; go to the National Archives and give it a whirl.
• Navy
  • Bob O'Connor has typed up a Naval Roster from World War I. This is of those who were in the fifth and seventh divisions. It was printed in The Staten Islander in August, 1917. Here is the World War I Navy Fifth and Seventh Division Rosters.
• Army
  • Robert (chweise at aol dot com)'s father, Paul Rene Chagnon Sr. was a member of "The Home Guards" during WW I, involving "guarding the docks" of Staten Island. Tha Army told us: "The "Home Guard" in WW1 was the elements and/or people of the State Guard that were not mobilized for WW1. What happened was that the State Guard was still organized as it had been for the Civil War. When mobilized into federal service it was reorganized as the regular army was, and units were given federal designations. Those units that were excess to the new organization, and individuals unfit for federal service, were sent back to the state. These elements retained their old NY State Guard designations and served on State Duty guarding governmental buildings, harbors, railroads, aquaducts, etc. This home guard was the start of the State Militia which is now called the State Guard http://www.dmna.state.ny.us/ nyg/nyg.html There is a short history of the origins of the NYG on /nyg-hist.html

    After WW1 the federalized units came back and "re-merged" with the units that served at home. Later the US Army reorganized, and State units became the Army National Guard with federal recognition and permanent unit designations. It wasn't until WW2 when the National Guard was agin mobilized that the NYG was again organized. After WW2 the NYG remained organized and has served as a volunteer (unpaid) force that can be called to state active duty as needed.

    There are State Guards or State Militia foces in many of the other states with similar background. These ARE NOT the militias you read about, but are recognized state forces as described in state and federal constitutions. Don't forget that most all of the units that fought in the Civil War were State Militia units."

    If anyone can share information about this, please email Robert chweise at aol dot com and Janet . Thanks!

• World War II casualties http://www.americanwardead.com/searchww.htm
• American Battle Monuments commission World War II http://www.abmc.gov/abmc45.htm
• Casualties We have the World War II Honor List of Dead and Missing Army and Army Air Forces Personnel from New York, Richmond County online in two jpg files. See our new WW II Honor List Page for details.

Data
• Korean war data from AAD.
• American Battle Monuments commission Korean War http://www.abmc.gov/abmc46.htm
• American Battle Monuments commission Vietnam War http://www.abmc.gov/abmc47.htm
• Korea http://www.americanwardead.com/search.htm
• Vietnam http://www.abmc.gov/abmc7.htm
• Korea casualties
• Vietnam casualties

Links
• Korean War Project

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