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ArchiveGrid
Similar to NUCMC, ArchiveGrid can greatly assist one in finding leads and links to unique, off-the-beaten-path records and photographs. Searching for “Kansas Military” one gets more than seven thousand search results including various veterans’ papers, newspaper clippings from various time periods and for different engagements, a Quartermaster’s journal from 1844-1850, and Civil War diaries just to name some categories of materials.
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NARA
NARA has an amazing collection of online catalogs, finding aids, and research materials for one looking to find military information; indeed, one can quickly become overwhelmed. Zeroing-in on the particular military engagement of interest on the website listed above can be a good place to start. Another way to learn of military collections is to use their online catalog. That catalog can be somewhat overwhelming for those not used to searching it--just take your time and make some time to play around and look around.
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NUCMC
Using NUCMC, one can find a military collection entitled “Gallatin County (MT) Veterans Service Records, 1918-1965” that also contains records for that county’s veterans who served in the Spanish American War still living at the time of WWI. Further searching on “Spanish American War” one can discover a group photograph of the men of the "Co. H-4-O.V.I. in Tracy Park after their return from Puerto Rico", as well as a photograph showing some of the identified men in the hospital of the 4th Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
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