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[Pages:118]Missouri State Archives Finding Aid 133.21

OFFICE OF ADJUTANT GENERAL INFANTRY, MISSOURI VOLUNTEERS REGIMENTAL RETURNS

Abstract: Records of Infantry, Missouri Volunteers (bulk 1861-1865) Extent: 7.5 cubic feet (25 Hollinger boxes) Physical Description: Paper Location: Missouri State Archives

ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

Access Restrictions: No special restrictions. Publication Restrictions: Copyright is in the public domain Preferred Citation: [Item description], [date]; Office of Adjutant General, Record Group 133.21; Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City. Acquisition Information: Agency transfer. Processing Information: Processing completed by SM on May 31, 2018. Finding aid completed by MKS on July 23, 2018.

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HISTORICAL, SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTES

The Missouri Volunteer regiments were organized and enrolled under the supervision of the United States military authorities. The Missouri Volunteers were accepted into federal service, beginning in the summer of 1861. Missouri Volunteer units often served outside the state of Missouri.

Regimental returns are paperwork created by various batteries, regiments and battalions and submitted to the Adjutant General. These records are the kind of bureaucratic paperwork on which the Army marched. Due to the chaotic nature of the Civil War in Missouri, the lack of reliable postal service, and poor record keeping in the field, these records are very incomplete.

The Scope and Content Note for individual regiments contains information on organization, disbanding, transfers and consolidations. Also noted are exceptional records of interest.

ADDITIONAL DESCRIPTIVE INFORMATION

Bibliography

Record and Pension Office, War Department (1902). Organization and Status of Missouri Troops (Union and Confederate) in Service During the Civil War. Washington, D. C. : Government Printing Office.

Dyer, F. (1959). A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. New York: Thomas Yoseloff Ltd.

SERIES

The records are broken down into the following series:

1st Regiment 1st Regiment 2nd Regiment 3rd Regiment 3rd Regiment 4th Regiment 4th Regiment 5th Regiment 5th Regiment 6th Regiment 7th Regiment 8th Regiment

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9th Regiment 10th Regiment 11th Regiment 12th Regiment 13th Regiment 14th Regiment 15th Regiment 16th Regiment 17th Regiment 18th Regiment 19th Regiment 21st Regiment 22nd Regiment 23rd Regiment 24th Regiment 25th Regiment 26th Regiment 27th Regiment 28th Regiment 29th Regiment 30th Regiment 31st Regiment 32nd Regiment Consolidated Battalion 31st and 32nd Regiment Infantry 33rd Regiment 34th Regiment 35th Regiment 36th Regiment 37th Regiment 38th Regiment 39th Regiment 40th Regiment 41st Regiment 42nd Regiment 43rd Regiment 44th Regiment 45th Regiment 46th Regiment 47th Regiment 48th Regiment 49th Regiment 50th Regiment 51st Regiment 52nd Regiment 53rd Regiment 54th Regiment

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55th Regiment 56th Regiment Benton Cadets Phelps Regiments 2nd Northeast Missouri Regiment

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1st Regiment Infantry, Three Months Service

Extent: 2 folders Arrangement: Alphabetical by company, then regimental Scope and Content Organized at St. Louis in April 1861. Reorganized into 1st Missouri Light Artillery in September 1861. Container List

Box Folder Company Contents

1 1

C

Correspondence ? Post Civil War

1 1B

Regimental Recommendations

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1st Regiment Infantry

Extent: 5 folders Arrangement: Alphabetical by company Scope and Content Organized in June 1861 by re-enlistment of 1st Regiment, Three Months Service. Reorganized in September 1861 as 1st Regiment Light Artillery, Missouri Volunteers. Container List

Box Folder Company Contents

1

2

B

Correspondence ? Post Civil War

1

3

C

Correspondence ? Post Civil War

1

4

H

Power of Attorney

1

5

H

Correspondence ? Post Civil War

1

6

F

Certificates of Discharge

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2nd Regiment Infantry

Extent: 85 folders

Arrangement: Alphabetical by company, then regimental

Scope and Content

Organized in September 1861 at St. Louis. Special Orders No. 352, October 18, 1864 transferred enlisted men of the 2nd Regiment whose term of service did not expire with the regiment to the 15th Regiment, Missouri Volunteers.

Requests for Final Statements are usually for soldiers who died as prisoners of war at Andersonville, Georgia.

Regimental Lists of Casualties include a list of casualties of Chickamauga and Murfreesboro.

Container List

Box Folder Company Contents

1

7

A

Accounts

1

8

A

Affidavits

1

9

A

Certificates of Discharge

1

10

A

Company History

Report of Vacancies in the Grade of

1

11

A

Commissioned Officers

1

12

A

Requests for Final Statements

1

13

A

Special Orders

1

14

A

Correspondence ? Personnel

1

15

A

Correspondence ? Post Civil War

1

16

B

Accounts

1

17

B

Applications

1

18

B

Recommendations

1

19

B

Requests for Final Statements

1

20

B

Correspondence ? Personnel

1

21

B

Correspondence - Miscellaneous

1

22

C

Accounts

1

23

C

Inventory of Effects of Deceased Soldiers

1

24

C

Correspondence - Miscellaneous

1

25

D

Certificates of Muster

1

26

D

Company History

1

27

D

Receipts

1

28

D

Recommendations

1

29

D

Requests for Final Statements

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Box Folder Company Contents

1

30

D

Special Orders

1

31

D

Correspondence ? Personnel

1

32

E

Accounts

1

33

E

Applications for Appointment

1

34

E

Applications for Certificate of Muster

1

35

E

Certificates of Muster

1

36

E

Company History

1

37

E

Recommendations

1

38

E

Requests for Final Statements

1

39

E

Resignations

1

40

E

Special Orders

1

41

E

Correspondence - Personnel

1

42

F

Accounts

Certificates of Decease of Officers and

1

43

F

Inventory of Effects of Officers

1

44

F

Recommendations

1

45

F

Requests for Final Statements

1

46

F

Resignations

1

47

F

Special Orders

1

48

F

Correspondence ? Personnel

1

49

G

Camp and Garrison Equipage Issued

1

50

G

Recommendations

1

51

G

Reports

1

52

G

Requests for Final Statements

1

53

G

Special Orders

1

54

G

Correspondence ? Personnel

1

55

H

Affidavits

Certificates of Decease of Officers and

1

56

H

Inventory of Effects of Officers

1

57

H

Requests for Final Statements

1

58

H

Resignations

1

59

H

Special Orders

1

60

H

Correspondence ? Personnel

1

61

I

Accounts

1

62

I

Affidavits

1

63

I

Certificates of Discharge

1

64

I

Company History

1

65

I

Receipts

1

66

I

Recommendations

1

67

I

Requests for Final Statements

1

68

I

Special Orders

1

69

I

Correspondence--Personnel

1

70

I

Correspondence--Post Civil War

1

71

K

Absentees

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