Military history collection, 1861-1981.

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Military history collection, 1861-1981.

Record cards with information on the family, education, military service, and occupation of local service men in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam, 1942-1966; manuscript return of the Record of Officers, Soldiers, and Seamen from the Town of Edwards in the War of Rebellion, 1865; report of militia enrollment, Town of Edwards, 1917; Civil War letters of Horace Barnes to his wife, 1861-1862, the official letter on his death, 1862, obituary clipping, and a photograph; an undated compilation of the service records of local World War I servicemen; miscellaneous letters from servicemen in the Spanish-American War and World War I, 1898-1918; and clippings on local servicemen, 1977-1981.

1 cubic ft.

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Edwards History Center (Edwards, N.Y.)

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New York (State). Militia

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Levies were special regiments recruited under provisions of the legislature which entitled recruits to plots of unappropriated land. From the description of Levy certificates issued record book. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122617529 ...

Barnes, Horace, d. 1862.

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