"Kentucky
men served in all U.S. military conflicts. As with other states,
many types of military records—service, pension, and bounty
land—are maintained by the National Archives in Washington, D.C.,
and its regional centers. The Military Records and Research Branch,
Division of Veteran's Affairs, Pine Hill Plaza, 1121 Louisville
Road, Frankfort, Kentucky 40601, maintains military service records
from the Revolutionary War to the present. The Kentucky Department
for Libraries and Archives and the Kentucky Historical Society have
strong collections which cover service as well as pension and
bounty-land records.
The Kentucky Historical Society has indexed rosters for
Revolutionary Soldiers buried in Kentucky and Kentuckians who served
in the Mexican War, 1846–48. The University of Kentucky and
Kentucky Historical Society house the state Sons of the American
Revolution organization papers, and Eastern Kentucky State
University published rosters of Civil War regiments from
Kentucky."
(Source: Ancestry's Red Book: American State, County, and
Town Sources
)
"Although sparsely settled at the time, men from Kentucky
served in the Revolutionary War. Many of the state's later residents
served for Virginia and were allotted Kentucky land for their
service. Anderson C. Quisenberry's Revolutionary Soldiers in
Kentucky (Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1968) covers
a broad scope of service records. Names of many early Kentuckians
and others who later obtained land grants in Kentucky can be found
in records of the George Rogers Clark military expedition."
(Source: Ancestry's Red Book: American State, County, and
Town Sources
)
"Civil War rosters for Kentuckians who served in the Union and
Confederate armies have been indexed and are available at the
Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives. Kentucky provided
its Confederate veterans and widows with pensions which can be
located through the Kentucky Historical Society and Kentucky
Department for Libraries and Archives. Alice Simpson, Index of
Kentucky Confederate Pension Applications (Frankfort, Ky.: Division
of Archives and Records Management, Department for Libraries and
Archives, 1978), is helpful in locating these materials in
Kentucky."
(Source: Ancestry's Red Book: American State, County, and
Town Sources
)
