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Subseries 1: Volunteers Now in Service

Scope and Content Note:

This subseries contains information on soldiers who were still in federal service when the data was collected. The precise title of this subseries is "Return of Officers and Enlisted Men Who Are Now in the Military or Naval Service." Information provided includes: name, age, and color; place of birth; marital status; trade or occupation; voter and citizenship status; literacy; regiment first entered; date originally entered service; length of first enlistment; first rank; promotions and transfers; re-enlistment; length of unexpired term as of June 1, 1865; present regiment and rank; whether or not drafted; substitute or representative recruit; and remarks. The remarks usually refer to wounds received, resignation dates, mustering out dates, hospitalizations, desertions, or if incarcerated as a prisoner of war.