Collections

Military History

The Dyer Library has information on residents of Old Abington (Abington, Rockland, and Whitman) who served or were involved in the military from Colonial times through World War II.

Highlights from our Military History collection include,

• Official Records of the Union and Confederate Soldiers with index
• Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors and Marines in the Revolutionary War with index
• Abington and the Revolution and Earlier Wars: The Story of Old Abington, Massachusetts
• Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors and Marines in the Civil War with index
• The Civil War Times magazine
• Civil War diaries and individual military commissions for local soldiers
• Regiment books