Virginia Military Records: Difference between revisions

Complete military records do not exist for Virginia before the French and Indian War (1754-1763). Most of those that survive have been gathered and published in the following books:  

*Crozier, William A. ''Virginia Colonial Militia 1651-1776''. (New York, NY: Genealogical Association, 1905. Reprint, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1982.) {{FSC|72797|item|disp=FS Library fiche 6048997; book 975.5 M2c}} Includes published rosters of soldiers listed in many sources such as land bounty certificates, militia rosters, or service records.  

*Taylor, Philip F. ''A Calendar of the Warrants for Land in Kentucky, Granted for Service in the French and Indian War''. 1917. Reprint, (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1967.) {{FSC|85944|item|disp=FS Library fiche 6019959; book 976.9 R21t}} This contains an alphabetical list of soldiers (mostly from Virginia) who received warrants for bounty land in what is now Kentucky from about 1774 to 1789. The original warrant records are at the Kentucky Land Office (see [[Kentucky Land and Property]]).  

*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/279797 Amherst papers, pt. 47-48, London, Public Records Office, Letters from various officers serving in South Carolina and Virginia to Commander-in-Chief, and letters from Commander-in-Chief to officers serving in South Carolina and Virginia, 1757-1763]

*Gwathmey, John Hastings. ''Historical Register of Virginians in the Revolution, Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, 1775-1783''. Richmond, Va.: Dietz Press, 1938. Digital version at [http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=48423 Ancestry] ($); {{FSC|72802|item|disp=FS Library Book 975.5 M23g}} This lists approximately 64,000 individuals, including those individuals identified in the earlier publication by Eckenrode (below). Both the Gwathmey and Eckenrode sources must be used, because although they list the same individuals, Gwathmey refers to the Eckenrode index for source information.  

*Douthat, James L. ''Virginia Soldiers in Northwest Territory - 1777''. Signal Mountain, Tenn.: Mountain Press. '''Free online surname index''' and purchase details at [http://www.mountainpress.com/books/va/details/va-0704w.html Mountain Press] website.

*Brookes-Smith, Joan E. ''Master Index: Virginia Surveys and Grants, 1774-1791''. Frankfort: Kentucky Historical Society, 1976. {{FSC|193613|item|disp=FS Library film 1320833 item 6; book 976.9 R22b.}}  

Copies of the warrants are found in ''Military Warrants, 1782-1788 ''{{FSC|439115|item|disp=FS Library films 272979-80}}. The original records are at the Kentucky Land Office in Frankfort, Kentucky. These are indexed by Willard Rouse Jillson, ''Old Kentucky Entries and Deeds: A Complete Index to All of the Earliest Land Entries, Military Warrants''. 1926. Louisville, Kentucky : Standard Printing Co. Online at: [https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/526299-old-kentucky-entries-and-deeds-a-complete-index-to-all-of-the-earliest-land-entries-military-warrants-deeds-and-wills-of-the-commonwealth-of-kentucky?offset=1 FamilySearch Digital Library]. 1978, c1969 reprint at {{FSC|489197|item|disp=FS Library fiche 6051260; book 976.9 R22j.}}

A significant collection of survey records and other information about this district is also at the Illinois Historical Survey Collection at the University of Illinois Library in Urbana. These are indexed in volume 4 of:  

The surrendered warrants and related papers were sent to the General Land Office in Washington, DC, and are now at the National Archives in Warrants Surrendered for Land in the Virginia Military District of Ohio. The National Archives also has an alphabetical index, numerical register, and survey register that can help you find a warrant in this collection. These records are not on microfilm or at the FamilySearch Library.

Those who served in the Virginia state or continental line may be listed in Compiled Service Records of Soldiers Who Served in the American Army During the Revolutionary War {{FSC|484382|item|disp=FS Library films 1485281(first of 1,097)}} and in ''General Index to Compiled Military Service Records of Revolutionary War Soldiers'' {{FSC|484382|item|disp=FS Library films 882841(first of 58)}} This is at the National Archives and the FamilySearch Library. May provide the soldier's or sailor's unit which can help to find pension records but does not give information about other members of the soldier's family.  

For a list of regiments, where they were raised, service dates, officers, and brief unit histories, see:  

The Library of Virginia also has various pay records, militia records, court martial records, appointments of officers, petitions, and other helpful sources.

:*{{RecordSearch|1979390|United States, Mexican War Pension Index, 1887-1926}} (FamilySearch) Free digital copy. ([[United States, Index to Mexican War Pension Files - FamilySearch Historical Records|How to use this collection.]])<br>

*Johnson, William Page. ''Off to War, The Virginia Volunteers in the War with Mexico, or Fuera de Guerra, La Virginia Volentarios en la Guerra con Mexico''. Westminster, Md.: Willow Bend Books, 2002. FS Library 975.5 M2j.

For a list of 8,777 war dead, see:  

[http://www.ancestry.com/ Ancestry] has World War II enlistment records. ($)