Gary and all: This was sent me on a look-up DOLTON-card file-Indian Mound-Sec 7 Lot 33 Stephen R. Dolton, Co. B 9th NY H Art. 1832-1918 (GAR Emblem) On same card: Orlando Lillie, Co. B 91 Reg. NYV 1841-1904 (GAR Emblem) Maryette Lillie Loyster, 1849-1928 Alonzo Lillie, Co. I 111 Reg. NYV 1837-1906 I have been to the 111th and found Alonzo and his brother (?) Jabez but I can't find the 9th Artillery. Ialso have found an Albert DOLTON in the 111th. Punching in Stephen R. DOLTON on a Civil War site (Ancestry) I came up with Co. D 75 NY Inf. private enlisted 14 oct. 1861 Lockport NY...discharged disability on 09 dec. 1863. Would this mean that this man received a pension ??? I know so little about the Civil War. Was there even enough $$ for pensions ??? If this is my man I've been looking for him for 33 years....what a find this would be. Thank all of you for your help. I sure do love this computer. Tam in NY Searching: DOLTON SMITH SEARLES APGAR BULLOCK GILBERT CREELY Gary Welch wrote: > > Tam, > > I have a copy of the roster of the 9th N.Y.H.A. and will do lookups for > anyone interested. > > Gary Welch > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tamaris Dolton [mailto:aduck@together.net] > Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2000 5:04 AM > To: NY-Military-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [NY-Mil] Civil war soldiers > > Help....deleted the site ...where can I find Civil War soldiers...to be > specfic Co. B 9th NY H Art. Tam in NY > > ______________________________

At 05:49 PM 2/19/00 -0500, you wrote: > Thanks for the insight. Would he have a pension file seeing as he died > at age 35? I did send to the National Archives and they could not find > anything on him, I have now sent to NY State Archives hoping they may > have some information. Wouldn't he have had to apply for a pension to > have a pension file though? I did get the Civil War pension records for > my gr grandfather and they contain a lot of information. Thanks - Eileen Eileen, I am sending theis reply to the list as well because it contains some information which may be of interest to others. He most likely would have a pension file if he was disabled during the war and was awarded a disbility pension, which is a distinct possibility if he died in 1909 at such a young age. I am not certain of the pension rules for those years relating to Spanish American War vets, but the surviving family may have also been able to claim a pension if he died of a "service connected disability". However, if you have already checked that avenue with the NA, then it appears to be a dead end. New York State Archives may be a possibility, but I don't think they have as much info on the Spanish-American War soldiers as they do on the Civil War. Another place to try is the Military History Institute at US Army Carlisle Barracks: http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usamhi/ although, again, they are somewhat more useful for the Civil War. Try local newspapers of the era. They may not be in your local library any longer, but some are available at the State Archives or major universities. See the NY State Newspaper Project at: http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/nysnp/ You may be able to locate an obituary. Depending on the size of the paper and town, there may also be an earlier article about him "going off to war". ***** John Clavin | NY-Military-L List Administrator | jjc@bga.com *****

Tam, I have a copy of the roster of the 9th N.Y.H.A. and will do lookups for anyone interested. Gary Welch -----Original Message----- From: Tamaris Dolton [mailto:aduck@together.net] Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2000 5:04 AM To: NY-Military-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [NY-Mil] Civil war soldiers Help....deleted the site ...where can I find Civil War soldiers...to be specfic Co. B 9th NY H Art. Tam in NY ______________________________

Hi Don, Thanks for the interest. Yes, by the end of the war he was Col. Banastre Tarelton. My understanding is that he was in command of the 17th light dragoons and a composite of men that made up the British Legion. These became, after Cowpens, the 5th American Regiment, Establishment 1782. I am indeed trying to get accurate information about the makeup of the Legion prior to the Southern Campaign. References are appreciated <s>. Ken ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Baratta" <dbaratta@coastaccess.com> To: "Tiphys" <tiphys@ameritech.net>; <NY-Military-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2000 12:14 PM Subject: Re: [NY-Mil] 5th American Regiment > Hi Ken, > > Is that a reference to Colonel Banastre Tarelton of the American > Revolutionary War? I thought his Legion was made up mostly of British. > > Regards, > Don Baratta > -----Original Message----- > From: Tiphys <tiphys@ameritech.net> > To: NY-Military-L@rootsweb.com <NY-Military-L@rootsweb.com> > Date: Friday, February 18, 2000 8:56 PM > Subject: [NY-Mil] 5th American Regiment > > > >Hi to the list: > >I would like some help locating historical information about the 5th > American Regiment, aka Tarelton's Legion. I am particularly interested in > their formation. Thanks > >Ken > > > >

Hi Ken, Is that a reference to Colonel Banastre Tarelton of the American Revolutionary War? I thought his Legion was made up mostly of British. Regards, Don Baratta -----Original Message----- From: Tiphys <tiphys@ameritech.net> To: NY-Military-L@rootsweb.com <NY-Military-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Friday, February 18, 2000 8:56 PM Subject: [NY-Mil] 5th American Regiment >Hi to the list: >I would like some help locating historical information about the 5th American Regiment, aka Tarelton's Legion. I am particularly interested in their formation. Thanks >Ken >

Hi Listers Trying to find Info on a WW1 Marine-name Scanlon-(First name unknown) I tried the book"How to locate anyone who is or has been in the military" it is a good reference book but not for WW1.I'm pretty sure my ancester enlisted in new york city.The only other info I have is he was overseas where he was mustard gassed,he surived but died yrs later of effects of the gas, he also had a older brother Dennis David Scanlon.Any help would be appreciated. Regards John Scanlon

Help....deleted the site ...where can I find Civil War soldiers...to be specfic Co. B 9th NY H Art. Tam in NY

Hi to the list: I would like some help locating historical information about the 5th American Regiment, aka Tarelton's Legion. I am particularly interested in their formation. Thanks Ken

At 08:01 PM 2/15/00 -0500, Axel46@aol.com wrote: > I've beeen looking for Amasa or Asa Bates of Warrenburg. This was the >War of 1812. He served with a company of militia raised for the Battle of >Plattsburg. Can you recommend any sites and/or sources for finding him? Hi Fred, I am posting your question and my reply to the list so everyone can have the benefit of the information. Here are some items I had in my notes, which may be helpful: The official records for militia or volunteers serving in the War of 1812 can be found in the National Archives (NA) records available on microfilm: Records of Volunteer Soldiers Who Served in the War of 1812 (Record Groups 94 and 407) Indexes to Compiled Service Records Compiled Service Records Information on obtaining the index on microfilm through the NA rental program should be on the NA web site. Also, I think these films should be available via the Family History Centers as well. The Family History Library Catalog is now on-line at http://www.familysearch.org/ . My copy of the NA Military Service Records Catalog shows that the index is microfilm series M602 and you probably want Roll 12 which includes names Bars-Bat. Unfortunately, it appears the compiled service records have never been microfilmed by the NA, so after you locate the name in the index, you will have to request xerox copies via NATF Form 80. New York Archives and Library also lists some sources for this information at: http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/genealogy/miliante.htm#1812 There is a list of some War of 1812 soldiers at: http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/8502/ If Bates is not listed, you may want to add what you know about him and see if anyone contacts you. Hope this helps, John ***** John Clavin | NY-Military-L List Administrator | jjc@bga.com *****

Hi to all on the list. I am trying to locate any available information about a Revolutionary Era British soldier who settled in New York after the war. I have searched the PRO (actually a friend did the physical search) and the Peter Force collection in the Library of Congress. I have the soldiers military records, but these shed no light on his settlement in New York. Specifically, I am trying to locate information for the time period between 1781 and 1805, when he married (perhaps somewhere in Albany county), had children, and eventually settled (probably before 1805) in New Berlin, Chenango County (now it is Chenango, I don't know which county it was when he settled there). Does anyone have suggestions about resources for this kind of information? Ken, in Michigan

Fellow Researchers, If you go to the following web site, you will find a list of all draft boards and their addresses for the five boroughs. http://www.italiangen.org/igg011.stm Gary wrote: ---------------------- From: GYoung4450@aol.com To: NY-Military-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <e8.1970f17.25db2053@aol.com> Subject: Welcome John Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello: I am one of those folks who "lurks" a bit and once in a while asks a very basic question (alright, perhaps a stupid question). Best of luck with the list. There are many good folks here. My grandfather was a WW I Army veteran. Here is one of my basic questions: Where can I locate WW I draft board addresses for Manhattan? I would like to try to track down my grandfather's draft registration card, have his address in Manhattan at the time but do not know which draft board he would have used. Thank you. Be well, Gary ------------------- Good hunting. Robert Silverstein Aurora, Colorado RoMaSi@aol.com

Hello all: I recently asked a question about the locations of WW I Manhattan draft boards. I located the site below which has listings of draft board locations for all five boroughs. I hope it will be useful for some of you. It will be for me. Now I just have to try to determine which address would have been the most likely for my grandfather to have used in order to send out for his draft registration card. If anyone has had experience sending out for WW I draft registration cards (I have the request form for the NARA branch in Georgia) how much leeway do they extend about information expected? I can, at this point, determine that there were two draft board locations of nearly equal proximity to his address at the time. he could just as easily have gone to either one, or another for that matter. Any suggestions would be welcomed. I will hold off a couple of days before sending it out in case anyone can offer some insight. Best of luck. Gary http://www.italiangen.org/igg011.stm

I have made some changes to the way subject lines are displayed on messages you receive from the list. If you send a message to the list with the "Subject: Good Stuff to Know" it will now be changed to "Subject: [NY-Mil] Good Stuff to Know" when it is sent out to list members. The [NY-Mil] tag may help those of you who receive mail from multiple lists identify NY-MILITARY-L mail easier, depending on how your mail reader displays things. I abbreviated it to [NY-Mil] so it would not add much to the length of the subject line, but it could be [NY-Military] if everyone likes that better. I thought I would just try this change for a while and see how everyone likes it. If there is a consensus that this was not a good thing to do, I'll change it back. If you do like it, thanks go to Diane Kurtz for suggesting it. John ***** John Clavin | NY-Military-L List Administrator | jjc@bga.com *****

Have you found the family in the 1900 or 1910 censuses? There's a soundex for NY for the 1900 census, he may have been born by then so you can at least get his first name. -----Original Message----- From: JSca844165@aol.com [mailto:JSca844165@aol.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 3:05 PM To: NY-Military-L@rootsweb.com Subject: WW1 Marine Hi List Need any info on a greatuncle-name Scanlon -don't know the first name-Joined U S M C During WW1 From NYC-He was mustardgassed in europe-died yrs later from gas.Not much to go on but its all I have-He had a brother Dennis David Scanlon. Regards John Scanlon

Welcome aboard John! We are always in need here of expertise! And.. we will try to behave ourselves! Donna Gardner Miller interest..8th Heavy Artillery

Hi Bob Got your mail on Chuck Weber-Name Scanlon-but the e-mail you gave won't connect --- chuckweber41@yahoo.com Regards John Scanlon

Welcome John, I am also a lurker. I got interested in this list because I am researching my ggrandfathers. One was in the 142nd NY Infantry. I have not gotten much info, but am always hopeful. One thing I do like is links. Links listed by others have helped me. But I digress. Welcome. Kay

Hello: I am one of those folks who "lurks" a bit and once in a while asks a very basic question (alright, perhaps a stupid question). Best of luck with the list. There are many good folks here. My grandfather was a WW I Army veteran. Here is one of my basic questions: Where can I locate WW I draft board addresses for Manhattan? I would like to try to track down my grandfather's draft registration card, have his address in Manhattan at the time but do not know which draft board he would have used. Thank you. Be well, Gary

Hi List Need any info on a greatuncle-name Scanlon -don't know the first name-Joined U S M C During WW1 From NYC-He was mustardgassed in europe-died yrs later from gas.Not much to go on but its all I have-He had a brother Dennis David Scanlon. Regards John Scanlon

Hi John, Welcome! I too am a lurker for the most part. My great-grandfather served in the 6th Horse Battery, Independent, NY. I never hear anything about that unit either. Maureen