Military History 

The Bangor Public Library provides information on both Maine's military history and the military history of the United States of America. Sources found in the Bangor Room for research and reference include:

American Revolution

• Index to the Henry Knox Papers. Boston: Meriden Gravure Company, 1960 (973.3.K772p)
• Henry Knox Papers. 1719-1825. (MICROFILM 973.3 .K772p)
• Jones, E. Alfred. The Loyalists of Massachusetts. London: Saint Catherine Press, 1930 (973.314.J714L)
• Flagg, Charles Alcott. An Alphabetical Index of Revolutionary Pensioners Living in Maine. Dover, ME: Sprague's Journal of Maine History, 1920 (973.344.A22)
• A Census of Pensioners for Revolutionary or Military Services. Washington: Blair and Rives, 1841 (973.344.A23)
• Revolutionary War - Index to Pensioners, Daughters of the American Revolution Patriot Index and Lineage Books (369.135)
• Hoyt, Max Ellsworth, et. al. Index of Revolutionary War Pension Applications. Washington: National Genealogical Society, 1966 (973.344.N213i)
• Regimental Histories United States: Revolution 1775 1783 - War of 1812 - Civil War 1861 1865 - Spanish-American War 1898 - World War 1914 1918 - World War 1939 1945 - Korean War 1950 1953 - Vietnamese Conflict 1961 1975* - Iran-Iraq War 1980 1988** - Persian Gulf War 1991 (Found throughout library and Bangor Room - 940.5)
• Heitman, Francis B. Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army. Washington: Rare Book Shop Publishing Co., Inc., 1914 (973.344.H365h)
• Maine at Valley Forge. Portland, ME: Maine Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, 1908 (973.344.S699m)
• Fisher, Carleton E. and Sue G. Soldiers, Sailors, and Patriots of the Revolutionary War, Maine. Louisville, KY: National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, 1982 (973.3441.F531s and 973.3441.F531su)
• Leamon, James S. Revolution Downeast: The War for American Independence in Maine. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1930 (973.3441.L128r)

War of 1812

• War of 1812 - Pictorial Field Book, Index to Pensioners (973.52)

Civil War

• Hunt, Roger, Colonels in Blue: Union Army Colonels of the Civil War. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 2001 (920.H9146c)
• Adjutant Generals Report - Civil War Period    (973.7441.A1)
• Personal Narratives of American soldiers

  *To find specific regimental histories or personal narratives on URSUS: type in the war as show above and add "regimental" after the date: ex. "Revolution 1775 1783 regimental," this will lead to links for all regimental histories held. For narratives: "Revolution 1775 1783 personal narratives."

  *The Vietnamese Conflict is used instead of "Vietnam War" on URSUS. **Gulf War during the 1980-1988 period.

• The USS MAINE - photograph and bronze plaque on display in the Bangor Room.

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Military History Links:

• Canada in the American Civil War
• Cyndi's List - Civil War Links
• Maine Civil War Discussion Forum
• Museum of the Confederacy
• U.S. Merchant Marine Casualties during World War II

Women in the Military:

• American Women in Uniform, Veterans Too!
• Lt. Col. Methaide A. Pinette-northern Maine native who served as Gen. Dwight Eisenhower's personal secretary during the planning of the D-Day invasion of Normandy
  during World War II.
• National Archives: Women in the Military
• U.S. Army Women's Museum
• Women's participation in the Civil War