[or-roots] Finding ancestors in Revolutionary and Civil War

[Harguess, Dale]

A lot depended on where you lived at the time of the Revolution.  Most men in Massachusetts were either in the Continental army or were on the side of Britain.  In New York they had a lot of militias and those are harder to track.  Most people don’t realize how many battles were fought in the South.  There are even people of Spanish descent that are eligible to be patriots because of the fact that Spain aided the Americans by blocking the mouth of the Mississippi so that the English couldn’t come up the river.

Dale

 

Eugene,

 

Thanks for the link to SAR, didn't know about them, my surname didn't yield anything though.

 

I have wondered about the conspicuous lack of military service prior to my grandfather in WW I and have asked myself more than once how they could have avoided service. My closest family has always enlisted and my high school classmates were all subject to the draft. (and a few "enlisted" to skirt jail time).

 

How DID things like that work before WW I?

 

Ingrid

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