If you would like to donate military pensions, lists, history, etc., please contact the site coordinator.
Be sure to also view and submit pensions to the Hamilton County Message Board GenConnect Board
It's a Four County Memorial Day Salute! Follow the button link below to see all the GREAT stuff for Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer and Montgomery counties! 
Hope you all enjoy these editions from Jeanette Shiel, Martha Magill and myself, for the first ever collaboration between several NY county co-ordinators! (Hamilton county links are now duplicated on this page as well.)
The Revolution
Pensions Abstracts of residents of Hamilton County
1840 Census of Pensioners
Becraft, Francis (Revolutionary War)Rev. War Veterans: Biographies
Gillis, Joseph of Hope
Groff, John of Hope
War of 1812
War of 1812 Claims
War of 1812 Soldiers
War of 1812 pension application of Washington Craig of Wells (mentions many soldiers)
The Civil War
Civil War Soldiers Database - A HUGE database of Civil War soldiers of Hamilton county. If you have information to add to this database, please send it in!
There was no single Army unit that was primarily composed of Hamilton county men. However, there were several that appear to have the majority of Hamilton men who enlisted.
Hamilton County Men and their Regiment Histories
Regiment links On This Site On Other Sites 2nd NY Hvy Art. history, men history 4th NY Hvy Art. history, men 93rd NY Inf history, men history 97th NY Inf history,men history 115th NY Inf history, men history, Article of Memories, 1893
Reunions: 11th, 45th,
Muster Rolls: Officers, Co. B, Co. EMiscellaneous Units men [see other links below] Annotated Civil War Letters of William Wood
Includes many Hamilton Co. men of the 118th NY Inf
Civil War Soldiers Gravestones of Hamilton county
Recruitment at Wells Performed by Francis H. Francisco in Aug 1862
Civil War Diary of Thomas Dunham: Spring/Summer 1864
Palmateer Family - includes a Civil War letter!
Civil War Letter to Josiah Wood
Civil War Discharge PapersCivil War Pensions
1883 Pension List for Hamilton county
Francis Freeman Becraft
Jacob H. Becraft
Theodore Charles Remonda
David Rickard
Gideon Rickard
Edward Slack Pension Papers
Adoniram Judson Tucker
Patty Wood (mother of William)1890 Federal Census for Hamilton County
Surviving Soldiers, Sailors and Marines, and Widows, etc.
Arietta Benson Hope Indian Lake Lake Pleasant Long Lake Morehouse Wells New York G.A.R. Proceedings of 1917: Hamilton County - includes a mortuary record for 1916 and has other information about officers and members for Hamilton County G.A.R.
Civil War Veterans: Biographies
Bennett Family of Hope
Boh, Martin of Morehouse
Bowman, Julius Frary of Hope
Braley Family of Long Lake
Buyce, Orra and Michael of Gilmantown
Call, Descendants of Samuel of Lake Pleasant
Delmarsh Family of Inlet
Grant Family of Benson
Johnston Family of Benson
Lawrence Family of Wells and Arietta
Mulholland Family
Parker, David Shotwell
Rudes, Descendants of Eli Rudes, of Arietta
Rudes Family of Arietta
Rudler Family of Morehouse
Sturges Family of Lake Pleasant
Viele Family of Indian Lake
Wadsworth, Descendants of Phillip R., of Hope
Wilbur, Beriah, of Indian Lake
Willard Family of Gilman
Wood Family of Long Lake
Wurster Family of Morehouse (includes Pension info)Civil War Links to Other Sites
Hamilton County Grand Army of the Republic Posts : a link for posting info for G.A.R. men
New York State and the Civil War
Union Army Regimental History Index
Register of Officers Commisioned (Adjutant General's report, 1868)
Civil War Rosters
Reenactors of the American Civil War
Fulton County USGenWeb's Military Page
Herkimer/Montgomery County USGenWeb's Military PageIf you have found a Civil War soldier of interest to you, you can obtain more information about him by ordering his military and pension records from the National Archives. These records can be extremely valuable sources of genealogical information! Find out how to order these records on the The National Archives' Civil War Page.
Mexican Campaign
Schuyler, George (Veteran of 3 "Wars")
World War I
Morehouse WWI Monument
WWI Draft Registration
WWI Military Discharge AbstractsWorld War I Veterans: Biographies
Fuller, James Frank of Wells
Groff, Frederick Randolf of Hope
Partello, Charles M. of Morehouse
Schuyler, George (Veteran of 3 "Wars")
The Family of Michael Arsenault (WWI and WWII vets)
World War II
WWII Military Discharge Index
Morehouse WWII Monument
Indian Lake & Wells Red Cross Roll Call, Dec 1941
Draft Questionnaires, 1941-42
War Casualties: WWII thru Vietnam
Two Red Cross ArticlesWorld War II Veterans: Biographies
The Family of Michael Arsenault (WWI and WWII vets)
James B. Hall WWII Veteran
Schuyler, George (Veteran of 3 "Wars")
Korean War
War Casualties: WWII thru Vietnam
Vietnam War
War Casualties: WWII thru Vietnam
More Veterans: Family Sketches
Family sketches containing veterans from different wars.Jennings Family of Long Lake
Kathan, Descendants of Capt. John, of Hope
Slack, Benajah of Amsterdam
Slack Veterans of Lake Pleasant
Whitman, Descendants of Isaiah - WellsOther Misc. Records
Veterans from the 1930 Census
More Recent Discharges
Remember to check Hamilton County News Obits for veterans!
Memorial Day Gleanings - a Link to Fulton county NYGenWeb, includes info from the Hamilton County News
Last Updated: Wednesday, 14-May-2008 13:35:46 PDT
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