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Guide No. 14
Francis
Scott Key
Washington crossing the Delaware River, Revolutionary War
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"The brave men, living and dead, Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address,
If your interest runs to learning more about the historical aspects of the military units in which your ancestors served, visit:
U.S. Military Records: A Guide to Federal & State Sources, Colonial America to the Present, by James C. Neagles. Salt Lake City: Ancestry, 1994. Beers, Henry Putney. The Confederacy: A Guide to the Archives of the Government of the Confederate States of America. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1986. Bockstruck, Lloyd DeWitt. Revolutionary War Bounty Land Grants Awarded by State Governments. Baltimore, Maryland: Baltimore, Maryland.: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1996. Bockstruck, Lloyd DeWitt. Virginia's Colonial Soldiers. Baltimore, Maryland.: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1988. Bodge, George Madison. Soldiers in King Philip's War being a Critical Account of that War with A Concise History of the Indian Wars of New England from 1620-1677; Official Lists of the Soldiers of Massachusetts Colony Serving in King Philip's War, and Sketches of the Principal Officers, Copies of Ancient Documents and Records Relating to the War; also Lists of the Narragansett Grantees of the United Colonies Massachusetts, Plymouth, and Connecticut. Third edition, 1906; reprinted Baltimore, Maryland.: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.,1976. Brown, Brian A. In the Footsteps of the Blue and Gray: A Civil War Research Handbook. Little Rock, Arkansas: Brown Publications, 1996. Brumbaugh, Gaius Marcus. Revolutionary War Records, Virginia: Virginia Army and Navy Forces with Bounty Land Warrants for Virginia, Military District of Ohio, and Virginia Military Scrip; from Federal and State Archives. (Originally published in 1936 as Revolutionary War Records, Volume I, Virginia, but no further volumes were ever printed.) Reprinted Baltimore, Maryland.: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.,1967, 1995. Burgess, Louis A. Virginia Soldiers of 1776 Compiled from Documents on File in the Virginia Land Office together with Material found in the Archives Department of the Virginia State Library, and other Reliable Sources (three volumes). Originally published Richmond, Virginia (Vols. I and II, 1927; Vol. III, 1929); reprinted for Clearfield Company, Inc. by Baltimore, Maryland.: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1994. Clark, Murtie June. American Militia in the Frontier Wars, 1790-1796. Baltimore, Maryland.: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1990. _____ Colonial Soldiers of the South, 1732-1774, with an Index by Judith McGhan. Baltimore, Maryland.: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1986. _____ Index to U.S. Invalid Pension Records, 1801-1815. Baltimore, Maryland.: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1991. _____ Loyalists of the Southern Campaign of the Revolutionary War (two volumes). Baltimore, Maryland.: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981. _____ The Pension Lists of 1792-1795 with Other Revolutionary War Pension Records. Baltimore, Maryland.: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1991. Coldham, Peter Wilson. American Loyalist Claims Abstracted from the Public Record Office. Washington, D.C.: National Genealogical Society, 1980. De Hass, Wills. History of the Early Settlement and Indian Wars of Western Virginia Embracing an Account of the Various Expeditions in the West, Previous to 1795, also Biographical Sketches of Col. Ebenezer Zane, Major Samuell M'Colloch, Lewis Wetzel, Genl. Andrew Lewis, Genl. Daniel Brodhead, Capt. Samuel Brady, Col. Wm. Crawford; and Other Distinguished Actors in Our Border Wars. Originally published 1851, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: H. Hoblitzell; reprinted Parsons, West Virginia: McClain Printing Company, 1960, 1969, 1975, 1980. Dixon, Ruth Priest. Index to Seamen's Protection Certificate Applications, Port of Philadelphia 1824-1861. Baltimore, Maryland: Clearfield Company, Inc., 1994. Doddridge, Joseph. Notes on the Settlement and Indian Wars of the Western Parts of Virginia and Pennsylvania from 1763 to 1783, inclusive, together with a Review of the State of Society and Manners of the First Settlers of the Western Country. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Ritenour and Lindsey, 1912; facsimile reprint Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, Inc.,1988. Dornbusch, C. E. (compiler). Military Bibliography of the Civil War (three volumes). New York: The New York Public Library 1961. Third Reprinting, 1983. Drake, Samuel Adams. The Border Wars of New England Commonly Called King William's and Queen Anne's Wars. Originally published 1897 by Charles Scribner's Sons; reprinted Williamstown, Massachusetts: Corner House Publishers, 1973. Drake, Samuel G. A Particular History of the Five Years French and Indian War in New England and Parts Adjacent, from Its Declaration by the King of France, March 15, 1744, to the Treaty with the Eastern Indians, Oct. 16, 1749, Sometimes Called Governor Shirley's War. Originally printed Albany: Joel Munsell, 1870; reprinted Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, Inc., no date. Eckenrode, H. J. List of the Colonial Soldiers of Virginia: Special Report of the Department of Archives and History for 1913. Reprinted Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1961, 1965, 1974, 1976, 1978, 1980. Eckenrode, Hamilton J. Virginia Soldiers of the American Revolution, Vol. I originally published 1912 with the title List of the Revolutionary Soldiers of Virginia and Vol. II originally published 1913 with the title List of the Revolutionary Soldiers of Virginia - Supplement; reprinted Richmond, Virginia: Virginia State Library and Archives, 1989. Gwathmey, John H. Historical Register of Virginians in the Revolution: Soldiers, Sailors, Marines 1775-1783. Originally published Richmond, Virginia, 1938; reprinted Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1973, 1979. Heitman, Francis B. Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army from its Organization, September 29, 1789, to March 2, 1903 (two volumes). Originally published Washington, D.C., 1903; reprinted Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1994. Hopkins, William Lindsay. Virginia Revolutionary War Land Grant Claims 1783-1850 (Rejected). Richmond, Virginia: the author, 1988. Johnson, Lt. Col. Richard S. How to Locate Anyone Who Is or Has Been in the Military: Armed Forces Locator Directory [a new version, revised]. San Antonio, Texas: MIE Publishing, 1995. Kaminkow, Marion and Jack. Mariners of the American Revolution with an Appendix of American Ships Captured by the British During the Revolutionary War. Baltimore, Maryland: Magna Carta Book Company, 1967. Lewis, Virgil A. The Soldiery of West Virginia in the French and Indian War; Lord Dunmore's War; the Revolution; the Later Indian Wars; the Whiskey Insurrection; the Second War with England; the War with Mexico; and Addenda relating to West Virginians in the Civil War. Originally published as Third Biennial Report of the Department of Archives and History, State of West Virginia, Charleston, 1911; excerpted and reprinted Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1978. Mills, Gary B. Southern Loyalists in the Civil War: The Southern Claims Commission. Baltimore, Maryland.: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1994. Minnis, M. Lee. The First Virginia Regiment of Foot, 1775-1783. Lovettsville, Virginia: Willow Bend Books, 1998. Munden, Kenneth W. and Henry Putney Beers. The Union: A Guide to Federal Archives Relating to the Civil War. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1986. Beers, Henry Putney. The Confederacy: A Guide to Federal Archives Relating to the Civil War. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1986. National Society Daughters of the American Revolution. DAR Patriot Index, Centennial Edition (three volumes). Washington, D.C., 1990. Neagles, James C. Summer Soldiers: A Survey & Index of Revolutionary War Courts-Martial. Salt Lake City, Utah: Ancestry Incorporated, 1986. _____. U.S. Military Records: A Guide to Federal & State Sources. Salt Lake City, Utah: Ancestry Incorporated, 1994. North Carolina Daughters of the American Revolution. Roster of Soldiers from North Carolina in the American Revolution. Originally published Durham, North Carolina, 1932; reprinted Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1967, 1972, 1977, 1984, 1988. Penhallow, Samuel. History of the Indian Wars: A Facsimile Reprint of the First Edition, Printed in Boston in 1726 with the Notes of Earlier Editors and Additions from the Original Manuscript. Originally published 1924; reprinted Williamstown, Massachusetts: Corner House Publishers, 1973. Peterson, Clarence Stewart. Known Military Dead During the American Revolutionary War, 1775-1783. Originally published Baltimore, Maryland, 1959; reprinted for Clearfield Company, Inc. by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1992, 1993, 1994. Quisenberry, Anderson Chenault. Revolutionary Soldiers in Kentucky containing A Roll of the Officers of Virginia Line who received Land Bounties; A Roll of the Revolutionary Pensioners in Kentucky; A List of the Illinois Regiment who Served under George Rogers Clark in the Northwest Campaign; also a Roster of the Virginia Navy. Originally published Louisville, Kentucky in the Year Book, Kentucky Society Sons of the American Revolution, 1896; reprinted for Clearfield Company, Inc. by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1992. Rankin, Hugh. The North Carolina Continentals. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: The University of North Carolina Press, 1971. Reddy, Anne Waller. West Virginia Revolutionary Ancestors Whose services were non-military and whose names, therefore, do not appear in Revolutionary indexes of soldiers and sailors: An Index from Manuscript Public Claims of the Revolutionary War in the Virginia State Library. Originally published Richmond, Virginia, 1930; reprinted Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1983. Sanchez-Saavedra, E.M. A Guide to Virginia Military Organizations in the American Revolution, 1774-1787. Richmond, Virginia: Virginia State Library, 1978. Schaeffer, Christina K. The Great War: A Guide to the Service Records of All the World's Fighting Men and Volunteers. Baltimore, Maryland.: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1998 Scott, Craig R. The 'Lost' Pensions: Settled Accounts of the Act of 6 April 1838. Lovettsville, Virginia: Willow Bend Books, 1996. Somerville, Mollie. Women and the American Revolution. Washington, D. C.: The National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, 1974. Thwaites, Reuben Gold and Louise Phelps Kellogg (editors). Documentary History of Dunmore's War 1774, Compiled from the Draper Manuscripts in the Library of Wisconsin Historical Society and published at the charge of the Wisconsin's Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Originally published 1905, Madison, Wisconsin: Wisconsin Historical Society; facsimile reprint Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, Inc., 1989. Tolzmann, Don Heinrich. German Americans in the American Revolution: Henry Melchior Muhlenberg Richards' History [published 1907 in the Proceedings and Addresses of the Pennsylvania German Society]. Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, Inc., 1992. U.S. Government. The Pension List of 1820. Originally published 1820 as Letter from the Secretary of War . . . Cong. Ser. 34-55; reprinted with Index, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1991. _____. The Pension Roll of 1835 and Index Volume (four volumes). Originally published in 1835 in three volumes as Senate Document 514, Serial Nos. 24951 (23rd Cong., 1st Sess.); reprinted with a new index, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1992. _____. A Census of Pensioners for Revolutionary or Military Service with their Names, Ages, and Places of Residence, as Returned by the Marshals of the Several Judicial Districts, under the Act for Taking the Sixth Census. Originally published Washington, D.C., 1841. Bound with a General Index prepared by The Genealogical Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1965. Virginia Genealogical Society. Virginia Revolutionary War State Pensions. Originally published Richmond, Virginia: Virginia Genealogical Society; reprinted Greenville, South Carolina: Southern Historical Press, 1982. White, Virgil D. Genealogical Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Files (four volumes). Waynesboro, Tennessee: The National Historical Publishing Company, 1991. _____. Index to Indian Wars Pension Files 1892-1926 (two volumes). Waynesboro, Tennessee: The National Historical Publishing Company, 1987. _____. Index to Old Wars Pension Files 1815 (two volumes). Waynesboro, Tennessee: The National Historical Publishing Company, 1987. _____. Index to Revolutionary War Service Records (four volumes). Waynesboro, Tennessee: The National Historical Publishing Company, 1995. _____. Index to Volunteer Soldiers, 1784-1811. Waynesboro, Tennessee: The National Historical Publishing Company, 1987. _____. Index to War of 1812 Pension Files (three volumes). Waynesboro, Tennessee: The National Historical Publishing Company, 1989. Wisconsin Historical Society. Calendar Series Volume VI: Calendar of The Frontier Wars Papers of the Draper Collection of Manuscripts, indexed by Sam McDowell. Utica, Kentucky: McDowell Publications, 1991. Withers, Alexander Scott. Chronicles of Border Warfare or, A History of the Settlement by the Whites, of NorthWestern Virginia, and of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the State with Reflections, Anecdotes, &c.: A New Edition edited and annotated by Reuben Gold Thwaites. First edition published Clarksburg, Virginia: Joseph Israel, 1831; this edition originally published Cincinnati, Ohio: The Robert Clarke Company, 1895; reprinted Parsons, West Virginia: McClain Printing Company, 1961, 1970, 1975, 1980. Wright, Robert K. Jr. The Continental Army. Washington, D.C. Center of Military History, 1983.
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