Military Services and Genealogical Records of Soldiers of Blair County, Pennsylvania

By: Floyd G. Hoenstine, Pub. 1940, reprinted 2025, 448 pages, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-331-3. Blair County was created in 1846 from Huntington and Bedford Counties. This book is divided up into 7 sections covering the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican War, the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, the World War and Individual Records. In the first 6 sections, the reader will discover a brief history of the war & the units serving that war, followed by sketches of the Veteran of that war giving data such as: name, rank, unit served in, date of birth & death, location of burial, spouses name and last known residence. In each section, the soldiers are listed in alphabetical order. And in the final section, the reader will a more detailed sketch of the various soldiers from the county giving a complete military and genealogical record of the soldier, identifying the soldier for all time to come by recording together the military services and the names of the members of his family, giving the rank, organization, date of enlistment and discharge, place and date of birth, place of residence or burial, where discharged is recorded, names of parents, names of brothers and sisters, and children, name of wife, and wife's parents, and of marriage.