Here's some links someone sent on a list some time ago....don't know if they still work << Identifying Military uniforms: http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usamhi/ U.S. Air Force Museum: http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/ Sources for identifying symbols on military markers: Continental Society Sons of Indian Wars: http://members.tripod.com/~CSSIW Descendants of Mexican War Veterans: http://www.dmwv.org/ General Society of Colonial Wars: http://www.ubalt.edu/gscw General Society of the War of 1812: http://LanClio.org/1812.htm National Society of the Children of the American Revolution: http://www.nscar.org/ National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution: http://www.dar.org/index.html Order of Indian Wars of the United States: http://members.tripod.com/~Historic_Trust/indian.htm National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution: http://www.sar.org/ Spanish-American War Sources: The Spanish American War Centennial: http://www.spanam.simplenet.com/ Spanish-American War Site: http://www.ecsis.net/~jrwilobe/ Texas Volunteers - Spanish American War Military Rolls 1898-1901: http://www.pcworld.com/r/tw/1%2C2061%2Ctw-gen0214m%2C00.html The 1836 Texas War of Independence: Military Research Room: http://www.lineages.com/military/mil_tx.asp The Daughters of the Republic of Texas Library @ the Alamo (research services): http://www.drtl.org/ Seige and Battle of the Alamo: http://www.lsjunction.com/events/alamo.htm Descendants of Mexican War Veterans: http://www.dmwv.org/ USIGS Military Collection Mexican-American War: http://www.pcworld.com/r/tw/1%2C2061%2Ctw-gen0214a%2C00.html Mexican American War Memorial: http://sunsite.unam.mx/revistas/1847/ Lost Records of the War of 1812: http://pcworld.com/r/tw/1%2C2061%2Ctw-gen0214c%2C00.html Military History: War of 1812: http://www.cfcsc.dnd.ca/links/milhist/1812.html USIGS Collection of Links: http://www.pcworld.com/r/tw/1%2C2061%2Ctw-gen0214e%2C00.html Where to get War of 1812 Records: http://www.rootsweb.com/~kyharris/1812how.htm War of 1812 Pay Rolls and Muster Rolls (searchable collection): http://image.vtls.com/collections/WA.html War of 1812: Fort McHenry: http://www.bcpl.lib.md.us/~etowner/patriots.html Overview of the War of 1812 from a Canadian perspective: http://www.rootsweb.com/~canmil/1812/1812view.htm The Patriots War of 1837-1838: Fort Wellington, Canada: http://www.pcworld.com/r/tw/1%2C2061%2Ctw-gen0214u%2C00.html The Battle of the Windmill: http://www.pcworld.com/r/tw/1%C2061%2Ctw-gen0214n%2C00.html Virginia