Pennsylvania Military History

NEW!!     Pennsylvania Military Reservations and National Cemeteries - Transcribed by:  Debbie Ovechka

Veterans- Revolutionary War

• Death Notice of Capt. James Poe (Franklin County PA)
• Death of General Robert Brown (Franklin County PA)
• Biographical Sketch of Col. Thomas Butler
• Biographical Sketch of Col. Samuel Miles (Montgomery and Philadelphia County, PA)
•  Death of General Henry Miller (York County, PA)
• John Joseph Henry (Lancaster County PA)  
• Death of Colonel Michael Smyser (York County PA)
• JOHN ADLUM (1759 -1836) REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIER  Biography and Pension application - Transcribed and Contributed by John and Gene Sharp
• Major Moses Van Campmen, Frontiersman and Daring Soldier of the Revolution

Revolutionary Soldiers buied in the Germantown Upper Burial Ground - Donated by Sara Hemp

Pennsylvania Line Troops Mutiny - Contributed by Ann Baughman

THE WAR OF 1812

• News of Pennsylvania in the War of 1812  

• Biography of Captain George Washington Reed

• Soldiers of the War of 1812 buried in Germantown Upper Burial Ground - Donated by Sara Hemp

SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR

• War with Spain – Medal of Honor Recipients - Contributed by Linda Rodriguez

CIVIL WAR

Civil War Three Months' Service Soldiers - Unknown Counties - Transcribed by Tammy Clark

Biographies of Officers of the Civil War - Contributed by Linda Rodriguez

WORLD WAR I

• Soldiers of the Great War - Contributed by Jeanne Hall  
  Four parts  - Killed in Action, Died of Disease, Died of Wounds, Died of Accident

• Awards of Distinguished Service Medal - Pennsylvania   
  Congressional Medal of Honor & Distinguished Service Cross & Distinguished Service Medal Issued by the War Department, 1919 - Contributed by Tammy Clark

• Awards of Distinguished Service Cross - Pennsylvania, Unknown Counties  
  Congressional Medal of Honor & Distinguished Service Cross & Distinguished Service Medal Issued by the War Department, 1919 - Contributed by Tammy Clark

• World War II Honor List of Dead and Missing Army and Army Air Forces Personnel - Unknown Counties - Transcribed by Tammy Clark

• State Summary of War Casualties [Pennsylvania] U. S. Navy 1946 -  Contributed by Vicki Hartman  

• NEW!!    Pennsylvania World War II Draft Registration - Transcribed by Donald Buncie

MILITARY NEWS

News Articles

• The grave of General Braddock exposed.(1805)
• Women Who Fought During the Revolutionary War (1822)
• Charles Thomson, secretary of the continental congress (1822)
• Pennsylvania Militia System in 1822
• Captain Fowle's Detachment Heads West (1823 )
• 1861 UNION PRISONERS AT RICHMOND - Transcribed by Helen Coughlin  
• EACH VETERAN IS ALLOWED TO BRING A FRIEND ALONG - Government Will Pay Expenses of Both To Gettysburg Reunion (1938) - Contributed by Christine Walters

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