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Subseries 3: Volunteers Who Have Died While in Service

Physical Description:
0.7 cubic feet (1 volume)

Scope and Content Note:

This subseries pertains to soldiers who died while in federal service during the war. Its exact title is "Deaths of Officers and Enlisted Men Which Have Occured While in the Military or Naval Service of the United States, or From Wounds or Disease Acquired in Said Service since April 1861, Reported by the Families to Which the Deceased Belonged When at Home." This subseries provides the following: county, town, village, or city (and ward number); name; age at time of death; marital status; citizen or alien upon enlistment; date entered service; regiment first entered; original rank; regiment to which he belonged at the time of death; rank at time of death; status upon entering service (volunteer, drafted, substitute, representative, or colored); promotions while in service; date and place of death; manner of death (died after leaving service, died while a prisoner of war, killed in battle, died of wounds received in battle, killed by accident, died of accidental wounds, died of sickness acquired in service, died of sickness not acquired in service, and unknown); surviving friends (includes widows, parents, dependent parents, children, dependent sisters, and unknown); body sent to friends for burial; place of burial; and remarks. The remarks usually refer to a description of soldier's death, moral character, medals received, number of battles in which participated, date captured, etc.

  

Contents Box Volume Roll

Accretion: A0389-78
Albany County - Yates County 6 6 7