Compiled Records Showing Service of Military Units in Volunteer Union Organizations

Selected Military Genealogy Holdings at the Washington State Library

www.sos.wa.gov/library/genealogy.aspx

Reference

Dictionary of American military biography. Spiller, Roger J., ed. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1984. GEN 973.03 DICTION 1984 v1-3

Eleventh census of the United States 1890. Washington: schedules enumerating Union veterans and widows of Union veterans of the Civil War. Microform. Washington, D.C.: Census Office, 1890. NW MICRO 929.3797 CENSUS 1890

Finding your father’s war: a practical guide to researching and understanding service in the World War II U.S. Army. Gawne, Jonathan. Casemate,2006. GEN 940.5409 GAWNE 2006

The great war: a guide to the service records of all the world's fighting men and volunteers. Schaefer, Christina K. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1998. GEN 940.3 SCHAEFE 1998

Guide to records relating to U.S. military participation in World War II. 2 volumes. Compiled by Timothy P. Mulligan. Washington, DC : National Archives and Records Administraton, 1996-1998. GEN 940.5467 GUIDE T 1996 v1-2

Returns from U.S. military posts: 1800-1916. Microform. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Service, 1965. Washington State rolls only] NW MICRO 355.61 UNITED 1965 [

Revolutionary War genealogy research / by Craig R. Scott GEN 973.3 SCOTT 2011

U.S. military records: a guide to federal and state sources, Colonial America to the present. Neagles, James C. Salt Lake City, UT: Ancestry, 1994. GEN 973 NEAGLES 1994

WWII military records: a family historian's guide. Knox, Debra Johnson. Spartanburg, SC: MIE Publishing, 2003. 940.5467 KNOX 2003

Service Records

British and German deserters, discharges, and prisoners of war who may have remained in Canada and the United States, 1774-1783, part 1 and part 2; and, Deserters and disbanded soldiers from British, German, and Loyalist military units in the South, 1782. Smith, Clifford Neal. Baltimore: Reprinted for Clearfield Co. by Genealogical Pub. Co., 2004. GEN 973.34 SMITH 2004

Compiled records showing service of military units in volunteer Union organizations. Vermont, Virginia, and Washington Territory. Microform. Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Service, 1964. NW MICRO 973.7497 COMPILED 1964 Reel 193

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Historical register and dictionary of the United States Army, from its organization, September 29, 1789, to March 2, 1903. Heitman, Francis B. Genealogical Pub. Co.,1994. GEN 973.03 HEITMAN 1789-1903 v1-2

Official Army Register 1872 – 1957. GEN 973.03 ARMY

Official National Guard Register 1922 – 1943 GEN 973.032 UNITED

Official register of the United States: persons in the civil, military, and naval service, exclusive of the postal service. Washington, D.C.: U.S. G.P.O, 1913-1959 GEN 973.03 OFFICIA 1913-1959

Official register of the United States: persons in the civil, military, and naval service of the United States, a list of vessels. Washington, D.C.: U.S. G.P.O, 1911. (v1: directory, v2: postal service) GEN 973.03 OFFICIA 1907 v1-2; 1911 v1-2

The Pension list of 1820: U.S. War Department. United States. War Dept. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co.,1991. GEN 973.34 UNITED 1991

Records relating to personal participation in World War II: military awards and decorations. DeWhitt, Benjamin. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2007. GEN 940.5467 DEWHITT 2007

Revolutionary War compiled military service records, pension application files, and bounty-land warrant application files. Murray, Suzanne. Arlington, VA: Education Dept., National Genealogical Society, 1994. GEN 973.3 MURRAY 1994

The Old United Empire Loyalists list. Rubincam, Milton. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 2003. GEN 971.301 UNITED 2003

United Empire loyalists: enquiry into the losses and services in consequence of their loyalty: evidence in the Canadian claims. Fraser, Alexander. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1905 (1994 printing). GEN 971.301 FRASER 1753-1791 v1-2

World War I Selective Service System draft registration cards, 1917-1918. Washington. Microform. Washington D.C.: National Archives, National Archives and Records Administration, [1995?] Reels 1-61 NW MICRO 355.0097 WORLD W 1995? Supplement: Prisoners, Indians, insane, in hospitals, and late registrants NW MICRO 355.0097 WORLD W 1995? Suppl

Casualty and Burial Records

American battle monuments: a guide to military cemeteries and monuments maintained by the American Battle Monuments Commission. Detroit: Omnigraphics, 1989. GEN 940.5465 AMERICA 1989

American casualties of war: Korea, 1950-1953 [Washington State residents]. D 1.2:C 26x 10/2013 Office of the Secretary of State

Washington State Library Military Genealogy Holdings

Biographical data on the war veterans of Olympia and Thurston County, Washington, who served in the wars of the United States from 1812 through 1965, with maps of twelve county cemeteries showing the location of graves. Microform. Zaverl, Felix L., compiler. Olympia, WA: Washington State Library, 1965. NW MICRO 929.5097 ZAVERL 1965

Burial list of some Civil War veterans buried in the State of Washington, from Washington State library records and tombstone inscriptions. Pompey, Sherman Lee. Harrisburg, OR: Pacific Specialties, 1974. GEN 979.7 POMPEY 1974

Combat connected naval casualties, World War II, by States. 1946. U.S. Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard. Compiled and revised by Casualty Section, Office of Public Information, Navy Dept Washington, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946. GEN 940.5467 UNITED 1946b v1-2

Early military tombstone inscriptions in Washington State. Winters, Jean. Pasco, WA: Winters, 1972. GEN 979.7 WINTERS 1972

Index to U.S. invalid pension records, 1801-1815. Clark, Murtie June. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., c1991. GEN 973.46 CLARK 1801-1815

Register of veterans’ graves, Spokane County, Washington, 1884-1954. Microform. Eastern Washington Genealogical Society. Spokane, WA: The Society, 1997. NW MICRO 929.5097 REGISTE 1997

U.S. military personnel who died (including missing and captured dead) as a result of the Vietnam conflict, 1957-1994 [Washington State residents]: listed alphabetically by name as of November 1995. Washington, D.C.: National Archives, 1995. NW 959.7043 US MIL 1995b

Veterans' grave registration, Pierce County, Washington, 1855-1939: mainly veterans of the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, and World War I . Microform. Compiled by Works Progress Administration in 1939. NW MICRO 929.5097 VETERAN 1939?

History

The army of the Pacific; its operations in California, Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Plains Region, Mexico, etc., 1860-1866. Hunt, Aurora. Glendale, CA: A.H. Clark, 1950. 973.7497 HUNT 1950

Fighting Indians in Washington Territory. Keyes, Erasmus D. Fairfield, WA: Ye Galleon Press, [1988]. Reprint. Originally published: Fifty years' observation of men and events. New York: Scribner, 1884. NW 979.703 KEYES 1988

Fleeting opportunities: women shipyard workers in Portland and Vancouver during World War II and reconversion. Kesselman, Amy. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1990. NW 331.4823 KESSELM 1989

The loyalists in the American Revolution. Van Tyne, Claude Halstead. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1989. GEN 973.314 VAN TYN 1989

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The official history of the Washington National Guard . Headquarters Military Department, State of Washington, Office of the Adjutant General. Camp Murray, Tacoma, WA: The Office, 1961. NW 355.3709 WASHING 1961 v1-4

Origin of names of Army and Air corps posts, camps and stations in World War II in Washington. Allen, Mary Moore. Goldsboro, NC: 195-? RARE 929.3797 ALLEN 195-?

The pig war. Murray, Keith A. Tacoma, WA: Washington State Historical Society, 1968. NW 979.774 MURRAY 1968

The war years: a chronicle of Washington State in World War II. Warren, James R. Seattle, WA: History Ink: University of Washington Press, 2000. NW 940.537 WARREN 2000

West Pointers and early Washington: the contributions of U.S. Military Academy graduates to the development of the Washington Territory, from the Oregon Trail to the Civil War, 1834-1862. Edited by Major General John A. Hemphill, USA-ret. and Robert C. Cumbow. Seattle, WA: West Point Society of Puget Sound, 1992. NW 979.703 WEST PO 1992

Diaries and Correspondence

Isaac Ingalls Stevens papers, 1831-1862 at the University of Washington Libraries. Microform. Army officer, government official, and Governor of Washington Territory. Correspondence, a diary of the Mexican War campaign, documents and Stevens' writings relating to the Civil War, the governorship of Washington Territory, the Indian Wars with Pacific Coast tribes (1855-1860), U.S. coast survey, the exploration of routes to the Pacific, and Democratic Party politics. NW MICRO 979.703 STEVENS 1831-1844 Reels 1-4

Letters received, selected documents pertaining to the Indian wars in Washington and Oregon- Washington 1855-1858. Microform. Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. United States: Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1855. NW MICRO 979.7004 UNITED 1855

The pig war and other experiences of William Peck: soldier 1858-1862, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers : the journal of William A. Peck, Jr. Coulter, C. Brewster, senior editor; Webber, Bert, special editor. Medford, OR: Webb Research Group, 1993. NW 979.7740 PECK 1993

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