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For service in wars before statehood, refer to Massachusetts—Military Records. However, a few printed sources have attempted to extract Maine soldiers from the Massachusetts holdings, notably Charles J. House, Names of Soldiers of the American Revolution who Applied for State Bounty...in Land Office (1893; reprint, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1967); Charles A. Flagg, An Alphabetical Index of Revolutionary Pensioners Living in Maine (1920; reprint, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1967); and Carleton and Sue Fisher, Soldiers, Sailors and Patriots of the Revolutionary War—Maine (Louisville: National Society of Sons of the American Revolution, 1982).
The adjutant general’s holdings for Maine, which include militia on state service in wars, published yearly reports on Civil War soldiers. World War I and II reports are held at Maine State Archives. The Spanish-American War service records are also held at the state archives but are not published.
Maine State Archives has a card index of each Civil War soldier and grave records for Revolutionary, Civil War, and War of 1812 soldiers, as well as service records through World War I. In addition, there are listings of veterans by town of those who served in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam.
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- Search Revolutionary War 1775-83 Service Records
, Rejected Pensions, Loyalists Records, 1775-1783 Pay Rolls, Courts-Martial, Officers, Pension Index
- Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783 from the State of Maine (The National Archives): View, Print Copy & Save Original Documents in NARA publication M246 include muster rolls, payrolls, strength returns, and other miscellaneous personnel, pay, and supply records of American Army units, 1775-83.
- Compiled Service Records of Soldiers Who Served in the American Army During the Revolutionary War from the State of Maine (The National Archives): View, Print Copy & Save Original Documents in NARA publication M246 include muster rolls, payrolls, strength returns, and other miscellaneous personnel, pay, and supply records of American Army units, 1775-83.
- Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files from the State of Maine
- Revolutionary War Prize Cases: Records of the Court of Appeal in Cases of Capture, 1776-1787 from the State of Maine (The National Archives): NARA M162. Records of prize cases heard on appeal from Colonial and state courts by the Continental Congress and the Court of Appeals in Cases of Capture.
- Maine Military Men, 1917-1918: This database is a collection of military records for men who served in the war from Maine.
- Maine Pensioners, 1835: This database identifies thousands of Maine soldiers who were covered under various pension acts in the early 1800s.
- Maine Revolutionary War Bounty Applications, 1835-36: Taken from land records in state custody, this database contains the names of veterans who applied for land bounties in 1835 and 1836.
- Search Civil War Soldiers, Civil War Service Records, Civil War Regiments, Civil War General Officers, Civil War Battle Summaries, Civil War Pension Index: 1861-1934, CSA Field Officers and the War of the Rebellion
- Southern Claims - Barred and Disallowed from the State of Maine (The National Archives): View, Print Copy & Save Original Documents In the 1870s, southerners claimed compensation from the U.S. government for items used by the Union Army, ranging from corn and horses, to trees and church buildings.
- Organization Index to Pension Files of Veterans Who Served Between 1861 and 1900 from the State of Maine (The National Archives): View, Print Copy & Save Original Pension applications for service in the U.S. Army between 1861 and 1917, grouped according to the units in which the veterans served.
List conflicts dating from earliest to 1865
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Conflicts involving Maine dating from earliest to 1865. Wars covered that are available are:
- Pequot War 1637-1638
- French and Iroquois Wars 1642-1698
- King Philip’s War 1675–1676
- Pueblo Rebellion 1680
- King William’s War 1689–98
- Queen Anne’s War 1702–1713
- Tuscarora War 1711-1715
- Dummer's War 1723-1726
- King George’s War 1744–48
- French and Indian War 1754–63
- Pontiac's Rebellion 1763-1766
- Lord Dunmore's War 1774
- Revolutionary war
- Tripolitan War 1801-1805
- War of 1812 1812–15
- Creek Indian War 1813-1814
- The First Seminole War 1818-1819
- Texas Revolutionary War 1835-1836
- Second Seminole War 1835-1842
- Mexican War 1846–48
- Civil War 1861–65
- Spanish-American War 1898
- World War I 1917–18
- World War II 1941–45
- Korean War 1950–53
- Vietnam War 1961–73
- War on Terrorism 2001-Present
