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Detailed Description

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.

  

Subseries 2: Volunteers Who Have Been in Service

Scope and Content Note:

This subseries deals with soldiers who were formerly in federal service. The exact title of this subseries is "Return of Officers and Enlisted Men Who Have Been in the Military or Naval Service." Information provided includes: county and town (or city and ward number); name, age, and color; place of birth; marital status; trade or occupation; voting and citizenship status; literacy; regiment first entered; date originally entered service; first rank; promotions, transfers, etc.; months in service; manner in which separated from service (discharged on expiration of term, resigned, or otherwise); physical health (good or permanently impaired); loss of fingers (right or left hand); loss of hand (right or left); loss of arm (right or left); loss of foot (right or left); loss of leg (right or left); other wounds; and remarks. The remarks usually refer to reasons for discharge, where wounded or taken prisoner, place of imprisonment, or health problems.

  

Subseries 3: Volunteers Who Have Died While in Service

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.