NEWBERRY, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - The stories of over 80,000 Americans who fought and lived through the Revolutionary War are waiting to be shared. Written in cursive and found at the National Archives, ...
The Revolutionary War Pension Files Transcription Project aims to transcribe approximately 2.3 million original documents that correspond with more than 83,000 individual soldiers. The information ...
Mary Linville spent 36 years in nursing, but her passion has always been history. Now retired, she’s begun digging into Revolutionary War pension files, where she uncovered the story of her fourth ...
How many times did David Beach apply for his Revolutionary War pension? How much did Joseph Smead of Massachusetts receive for his? Did Ephraim Blackmer ever get the land warrant he applied for after ...
Regarding John Cogan’s op-ed “Congress Once Constrained Government Debt” (Jan. 24): In his book “The High Cost of Good Intentions,” Mr. Cogan mentions another key driver of congressional overspending ...
Most of us have relatives, if not direct ancestors, who served in the Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, the Korean War or Vietnam. A good general rule is that more recent wars have ...
Even before President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law in 1935, another form of social security was already in place. That was the national pension program, and the first ...
The West German government is Increasing pensions for restitution recipients and war victims, it was learned here today. An official announcement of a 9.5 percent increase in restitution pensions is ...
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