Christian Nichols
Christian Nichols served six months as a private in Col. John Keller’s regiment of the Bucks County (PA) Militia during the Revolutionary War. In 1820 P. Atta...
Claim rejected
Pennsylvanian Philip Schwartz served in the Artillery Company of the Fourth Continental Regiment for the duration of the Revolutionary War. The state of Pennsylvania...
Claim rejected
Thomas Pinkham’s family submitted this illustrated family record to the Federal Government when they filed for a pension based upon his Revolutionary War service....
Clifford Sims
Army Staff Sergeant Clifford Sims saved the men in his squad by throwing himself on top of an exploding booby trap on February 21, 1968. Sims was killed instantly and...
Code talkers
Navajo “code talkers” Corporal Henry Bahe, Jr., and Private First Class George H. Kirk operate a radio set in this December 1943 photograph The U.S. Marines used...
Colin McLachlan
Revolutionary War Sgt. Colin McLachlan of New Jersey served six years in the Canadian Regiment during the battles of Hanover (NJ), Staten Island, Brandywine,...
Commander in Chief of the American Fleet
Commodore Esek Hopkins, Commander-in-Chief of the American Fleet, Continental Navy, Revolutionary War, 1776