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Administrative History

Frederick Phisterer, chief of the Bureau of Military Records of the War of Rebellion, states in his 1906 annual report to the Adjutant General that "the organizations of the militia which served in the War of the Rebellion have been taken in hand and the records of their members...recopied on slips (i.e., the printed abstract form)."

Phisterer further reports that "information has been received from the Auditor of the War Department to complete the records of eleven regiments." In his 1907 annual report, Phisterer states that during the Civil War "there served... for short periods about sixty-five organizations of the militia; of these all but about thirty have been collated; those not collated are incomplete and require information from the War Department."

There are thirty-eight militia organizations documented in this series. Subtracting this number from the sixty-five which Phisterer says served, leaves twenty-seven ("about thirty") units for which there are no records. This most likely would be the result of failing to acquire the necessary data from the War Department.