There are more than 600 names on the Alamance County Veterans Memorial in Graham. CLICK HERE for some local casualties of 19th & 20th century wars buried outside the county
The National Personnel Records Center, Military Personnel Records (NPRC-MPR) is the repository of millions of military personnel, health, and medical records of discharged and deceased veterans of all services during the 20th century from World War I to the present. Requests should be made using Form 180 available at https://www.archives.gov/veterans/military-service-records/standard-form-180.html. All requests must be in writing, signed and mailed to the address shown below.
National Personnel Records Center
1 Archives Drive
St. Louis, Missouri 63138
Military records prior to World War I should be ordered from the National Archives in Washington, DC using NATF Form 86, which is available at the following site https://www.archives.gov/forms/pdf/natf-86.pdf
Genealogist Virgil D. White specializes in abstracting war records for 18th and 19th century American conflicts. The Local History Room at May Memorial Library owns the following sets of his abstracts:
CLICK HERE for a list of Local Revolutionary War Pensioners from the Pension List of 1835
The Regulator rebellion was a colonial tax revolt in which backcountry farmers from this area fought the colonial militia. It culminated in the Battle of Alamance which was fought here in this county on May 16, 1771 and involved an estimated 3,000 combatants. The Regulator rebellion is considered important historically as a precursor to the American Revolution. There is a state historic site within Alamance County on the site of the former battleground. The following books contains information about the Regulators:
Breaking Loose Together: the Regulator Movement in Pre-Revolutionary North Carolina by Marjoleine Kars
Farming Dissenters: the Regulator Movement in Piedmont North Carolina by Carole W. Troxler
The Regulators in North Carolina: Documentary History 1759-1776 by William S. Powell
Some Neglected History of North Carolina by William E. Fitch
War of the Regulation and the Battle of Alamance by William S. Powell