Military Records of Schoharie County Veterans of Four Wars (Paperback)

Paperback. Compiled from official muster rolls, pension records, and community archives, this comprehensive roster documents the military service of men from Schoharie County, New York, across four American conflicts: the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, and the Civil War. Rather than a narrative history, the work is structured as a prosopographical register, listing individual soldiers by name, rank, regiment, dates of enlistment and discharge, and theater of service. The result is a dense, methodical accounting of one rural county's cumulative sacrifice and participation in the nation's formative military engagements. Schoharie County occupies a distinctive place in American military history. Situated in the Mohawk Valley of upstate New York, the region saw direct combat during the Revolution, including the 1780 British and Loyalist raid on the Schoharie settlements. The county's veterans served in some of the most consequential units of each successive war, and the records gathered here preserve the names of men who might otherwise be lost to the broader sweep of national history. For the Revolutionary War entries, the records capture militia and Continental Army service from the valley's frontier defense. Civil War entries are particularly extensive, reflecting the county's contributions to New York volunteer infantry and cavalry regiments that fought from Bull Run to Appomattox. The original compilation reflects the painstaking archival methods of nineteenth-century local historians who recognized that official records were scattered, deteriorating, and at risk of permanent loss. By consolidating pension files, adjutant general reports, and local oral histories into a single volume, the compiler created an indispensable reference that has served genealogists, regimental historians, and community organizations for generations. The structured format makes it especially useful for tracing family military lineage across multiple conflicts, a feature that distinguishes it from the more common single-war regimental histories. Modern readers will find this edition valuable on several levels. Genealogists researching Schoharie County families gain direct access to service records that are otherwise dispersed across state and federal archives. Students of New York military history encounter a microcosm of how one small agricultural county experienced the demands of national mobilization across nearly a century of warfare. Social historians can trace patterns of enlistment, unit composition, and community response to successive calls to arms. The roster format, while austere, contains embedded stories in its details: soldiers who served in multiple wars, families that sent several sons, men who enlisted as privates and emerged as officers. County military records of this kind occupy a particular niche in American publishing history. Produced in small print runs for local audiences, they were heavily used by families and historical societies, leading to high attrition among surviving copies. Original editions command attention from collectors precisely because of this combination of local scarcity and genealogical utility. The Frontier Model Bibliophile edition preserves the full text of the original work, maintaining its documentary integrity while making it available in a contemporary print format accessible to researchers, libraries, and descendants who may never encounter an original copy. Prosopographical register of Schoharie County, New York veterans from the Revolution through the Civil War compiled from muster rolls and pensions. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…