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Military

Revolutionary War Mexican War World War I
Frontier & Indian Wars Civil War World War II
War of 1812 Spanish-American Korea and Vietnam
Local Resources   General Resources

 

Local Resources

Freeman Field AAF on Indiana Military site

Jackson County Digital History & Photo Archive

 

General Resources

Ancestry Library Edition (free, in-library use only) millitary resources

Heritage Quest Online (log on with library barcode) with Revolutionary War records; books and articles with various military resources

Footnote for free and fee files related to various military operations

 

INSPIRE click on WorldCat to find military histories; on Military Collection for articles

 

Congressional Medal of Honor Recipients:

US Army List

Department of Defense links

CMOH Society

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Veterans Grave Locator for Military Cemeteries

Military Indexes (free & subscription databases for various wars)

US Army Military History Institute

 

National Archives

Guide to searching archival records

Research Catalogs

Record Orders

 

Revolutionary War

Ancestry Library Edition

Heritage Quest Online

DAR Genealogical Records Committee Search

DAR Online Catalog

Online Revolutionary War Indexes

Revolutionary Veterans buried in Jackson County

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War of 1812

Online War of 1812 Indexes

 

Frontier & Indian Wars

Pigeon Roost Massacre (Scott County)

Selected resources among those in the Seymour Library:

Pigeon Roost Massacre

Frontier settlement accounts

 

Mexican War

Online Mexican War Indexes

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Civil War

CW Soldiers & Sailors Database with rosters, regiments, cemeteries, prisoners

Cyndi's List CW guide to online Civil War resources

National Archives Records Catalogs

National Archives Record Orders

Online Civil War Indexes

Seymour Library selected resources from among those available:

  • Accounts of Indiana units in various battles
  • GAR Veterans Death Rolls (Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska)
  • Guide to Indiana Civil War Manuscripts
  • Regimental Histories of Locally Related Units
  • Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana (9 vols.)
  • Reports of Morgan's Raid into Indiana

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Spanish-American War

Online Spanish-American War Indexes

Spanish-American Vols.

 

World War I

Selected resources among those in the Seymour Library:

Gold star honor roll : a record of Indiana men and women who died in the service of the United States and the allied nations in the world war 1914-1918
Jackson County Draft Registration microfilm at the Seymour Library

WWI Deaths in Indiana

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World War II

Memoirs of a WWII Combat Engineer / Sgt. Frederick Peters of Jackson County

(~37Mb download; a hard copy of the book is available in the Seymour Library)

World War II Memorial

NARA WWII Army & Air Force Casualties

NARA WWII Other Branch Casualties

Online WWII Indexes

Cyndi's List WWII

 

Korea & Vietnam

Korea & Vietnam Casualties

 

Online Korean Indexes

Online Vietnam Indexes

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Also on This Page:

Revolutionary War

Frontier & Indian Wars

Civil War

Spanish-American War

World War I

World War II

Korea and Vietnam

 

 

Online Resources

Frequently Used:

Ancestry Library Edition

Heritage Quest Online

INSPIRE

Google

Jackson Co Digital Archive

JCPL Catalog

FamilySearch

 

Cyndi's List

Linkpendium

RootsWeb

US GenWeb

 

 

Document Finders:

National Archives Catalogs

NUCMC

 

American Memory

Cornell Ditigal Library

Internet Public Library

Making of America

Etext Center (Lib. of Va.)

NYPL Digital Collection

Online Books (U.Penn., click historical) 

Digital Library (U.Missouri)

Google

July 2008