Series 6195

Division of Archives and Records Service


Territorial militia service cards, i 1850-1880.

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Schedule Description

This filmed card file contains a partial listing of individuals who served in the territorial militia, also known as the Nauvoo Legion, from the 1850s into the 1870s. Each card provides the individual's name, rank, the name of the captain of the company in which he served, the dates of service, and often the number of his listing on the roll. The card catalog apparently was started as part of an attempt by the Military Records Section to create a comprehensive listing of Indian Wars veterans by abstracting data from various publications and other series.

Scope and Content

This filmed card file contains a partial listing of individuals who served in the territorial militia, also known as the Nauvoo Legion, from the 1850s into the 1870s. The card catalog apparently was begun as part of an attempt by the Military Records Section to create a comprehensive listing of all militia veterans by abstracting or indexing data from various publications and other series.
Each card provides the individual's name, rank, the name of the captain of the company in which he served, the dates of service, and often the number of his listing on a payroll. Occasionally additional information will be written in: a pension claim number, the volume of the allegation ("alleg.") that he had served in Indian wars (no longer arranged in volumes), place of burial, etc. Reference to "doc. 19" corresponds to a book entitled Indian Depredations in Utah.

Notes

Abstracted by the Military Records Section in the early 1960s and microfilmed in 1966. Archivally processed by A.C. Cone in 1990.