Civil War Muster Records
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CIVIL WAR MUSTER RECORDS
Just what am I lookin at!?
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CIVIL WAR MUSTER RECORDS
Agenda• How Muster Records were created as we know them• Different types of records• Just what does it all mean?• A walk through of a favorite Soldier
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HOW MUSTER RECORDS CAME TO BE
No portable type setting equipment – everything was handwritten
Literacy rates in rural American around 40% at best
• A phonetic culture• Transcriber’s choice of spelling• If you could write at all you were in…quality varied
wildly
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HOW MUSTER RECORDS CAME TO BE
Mustering Form• Men would line up and answer the questions on the
form• Usually after a big community event with speeches
and chest thumping and food• Peer pressure likely…very likely.
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HOW MU STE R R ECO RDS CAME TO BE
Descriptive Roll• From Surgeon’s Examination• Used to find soldier
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HOW MUSTER RECORDS CAME TO BE
Company and Regimental Order Books• As Officers and Sergeants assigned work to the
soldiers, those orders were written in Company Order Books.
• As Sr. Officers assigned work to Companies, those orders were written in Regimental Order Books.
• If the “work” was of a duration longer than a couple weeks, these orders may well find their way to the soldier’s muster record.
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HOW MUSTER RECORDS CAME TO BE
An Example…• ”on detached service 22 AUG 1862”
Another example…• ”H | 7 | KY” compared with “Pvt, Co. B, 3 Reg’t…”
we’ll see more of Pvt. Hensley in a a few minutes
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HOW MUSTER RECORDS CAME TO BE
After the war…• War Department and State Compiling of Records
• Copying• Auditing• Second Auditing
• LOTS of handwritten records• Perpetuation of original errors• Introduction of new errors and omissions
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HOW MUSTER RECORDS CAME TO BE
After the war…• State Adjutant General Reports
• “Official” Muster Records
Muster Records & AGRs independently are NOT authoritative
They ARE independent pieces of evidence
SOMETIMES PRIMARY SOURCES CAN BE WRONG!
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CIVIL WAR MUSTER RECORDS
Agenda• How Muster Records were created as we know them• Different types of records• Just what does it all mean?• A walk through of a favorite Soldier
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Muster IN
Descriptive roll
Periodic Muster
Muster OUT
"appears on returns as"
Hospital Muster
casualty sheets
Enclosures
Enlistment Form
Letters, transportation reimbursement, etc.
DIFFERENT TYPES OF RECORDS
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DIFFERENT TYPES OF RECORDS
Muster IN• Rank and Company• Where and when they enlisted• Where and when they Mustered In • Remarks…always check the Remarks!
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DIF FE RE NT TYPE S O FRE CO RDS
Descriptive Roll• From Surgeon’s Examination• Used to find soldier
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Periodic Muster• Inspected and Paid about every 2 months• Disposition of soldier• Pay held for lost or neglected equipment• Remarks…always check the REMARKS!
DIFFERENT TYPES OF RECORDS
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Muster OUT• Careful here! Muster-Out information MAY
be incorrect for your soldier!• Money owed to the Gov’t• REMARKS! Always check the REMARKS!
DIFFERENT TYPES OF RECORDS
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“Appears on Returns as”• Information derived from Order Books• Could have multiple of these cards
DIFFERENT TYPES OF RECORDS
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Hospital Muster• Might include Ward, Bed, Medications, etc.• Likely out of place in the chronology• REMARKS! Always check REMARKS!
DIFFERENT TYPES OF RECORDS
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Casualty Sheet• Used for WIA, KIA, Deaths due
to illness, resignations.
• Comparing dates to Official Records you can determine EXACTLY what action the casualty occurred.
DIFFERENT TYPES OF RECORDS
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Enclosures• Extras in the record
DIFFERENT TYPES OF RECORDS
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Enlistment Form• Usually re-enlistments• WEALTH of info here
DIFFERENT TYPES OF RECORDS
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Enlistment Form
DIFFERENT TYPES OF RECORDS
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Enlistment Form
DIFFERENT TYPES OF RECORDS
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Letters, Reimbursements, Endorsements, etc
DIFFERENT TYPES OF RECORDS
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CIVIL WAR MUSTER RECORDS
Agenda• How Muster Records were created as we know them• Different types of records• Just what does it all mean?• A walk through of a favorite Soldier
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Regimental Ranks• Colonel• Adjutant• Lieutenant Colonel• Major• Sergeant Major• Quartermaster Sergeant• Ordinance Sergeant
RANK AND WHAT IT MEANS
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Company Ranks• Captain• First Lieutenant• Second Lieutenant• First Sergeant• Sergeant• Corporal• Private
RANK AND WHAT IT MEANS
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Union Enlisted Rank Insignia
RANK AND WHAT IT MEANS
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Confederate Enlisted Rank Insignia
RANK AND WHAT IT MEANS
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Union Officer Rank Insignia
RANK AND WHAT IT MEANS
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Confederate Officer Rank Insignia
RANK AND WHAT IT MEANS
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Confederate Officer Rank Sleeve Insignia aka “Chicken Guts”
RANK AND WHAT IT MEANS
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Each rank has a particular position within the regiment
Each rank has a particular job to do within the regiment
RANK AND WHAT IT MEANS
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RANK AND WHAT IT MEANS
The Civil War Company
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RANK AND WHAT IT MEANS
The Civil War Company
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RANK AND WHAT IT MEANS
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SUMMARY THUS FAR
How muster records came to be
What some of the cards mean
Ranks and what they do
Let’s put it all into practice…meet James Harvey Hensley.
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JAMES HARVEY HENSLEY
Index card• Company B• 7th Kentucky Infantry• Mustered IN as a Private• Mustered OUT as a Corporal
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JAMES HARVEY HENSLEY
Muster IN Card• He was 24 yrs old • Enrolled at Manchester, KY on 19 AUG 186?
• Safe to assume that should be 1861?• This error survived the initial copy and both
audits or was it introduced later?• Mustered IN at Camp Dick Robinson
22 SEPT 1861
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JAMES HARVEY HENSLEY
First Periodic Muster• Dated “Enrollment to 31 OCT 1861• Listed as “Not Stated”• Why?
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JAMES HARVEY HENSLEY
Next Periodic Muster• Dated “Enrollment to 31 DEC 1861”• “Present or Absent” is empty• ALWAYS read the remarks!
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JAMES HARVEY HENSLEY
Next Periodic Muster• Dated “DEC 31 1861 to APL 30 1862 ”• Present• ALWAYS read the remarks!
• “Lost 1 Screwdrive, 1 Wipers, 1 B knife”
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JAMES HARVEY HENSLEY
Next Periodic Muster• Dated “APL 30 1862 to AUG 30 1862 ”• Absent• ALWAYS read the remarks!
• “Absent on detach’d service 22 AUG 1862”
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JAMES HARVEY HENSLEY
Next Periodic Muster• Dated “SEPT to OCT 1862 ”• Absent• ALWAYS read the remarks!
• “Absent on detach’d service 22 AUG 1862”
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JAMES HARVEY HENSLEY
Next Periodic Muster• Dated “NOV & DEC 1862 ”• Absent• ALWAYS read the remarks!
• “Sent by Lieut Col J W Ridgell to hunt boarding for wife in Memphis did not return21st D”
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JAMES HARVEY HENSLEY
Next Periodic Muster• Dated “JAN & FEB 1863”• Absent• ALWAYS read the remarks!
• “Absent without leave Memphis TennDEC 20 1862”
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JAMES HARVEY HENSLEY
Next Periodic Muster• Dated “MCH & APL 1863”• Present• ALWAYS read the remarks!
• Except when there aren’t any.
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JAMES HARVEY HENSLEY
Special Muster• Dated “APL 10 1863”• Not Stated
Army was re-organized for the Vicksburg Campaign
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JAMES HARVEY HENSLEY
Next Periodic Muster• Dated “May & June 1863”• Present
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JAMES HARVEY HENSLEY
Next Periodic Muster• Dated “July & AUG 1863”• Absent• “Sent the Hosp at New Orleans
AUG 23 / 63”
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JAMES HARVEY HENSLEY
Next Periodic Muster• Dated “SEP & OCT 1863”• Absent• “Left at Carrollton La sick SEP 5/63”
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JAMES HARVEY HENSLEY
Next Periodic Muster• Dated “NOV & DEC 1863”• Absent• “Left at Carrollton La sick SEP 5/63”
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JAMES HARVEY HENSLEY
Next Periodic Muster• Dated “Jan & Feb 1864”• Present
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JAMES HARVEY HENSLEY
Next Periodic Muster• Dated “from Dec 31/63 to APL 30 1864”• Present
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JAMES HARVEY HENSLEY
Next Periodic Muster• Dated “May & June 1864”• Present
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JAMES HARVEY HENSLEY
Next Periodic Muster• Dated “July & Aug 1864”• Rank listed as “6 Corpl”• Present• “Was promoted to Corpl July 1/64. Due
the U.S. for transportation $9.65.”
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JAMES HARVEY HENSLEY
Muster Out• Age listed as 24 years old• Dated “Oct 5 1864”• Mustered out at Louisville, KY• Clothing account, owed $21.54• Bounty Due $100.00• Remarks: “Was Priv 1 JULY 64”
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JAMES HARVEY HENSLEY
“Appears on Returns as follows:”• “May 1862 Absent sick at Ford
May 22/62”• “Oct 1862(3 Ky Inf) Absent on Detach
Service in Ky since last report”• “Dec 1862 to Feb 1863 Absent without
leave at Memphis Tenn since Dec 20/62”
• “Oct 1863 (7 Ky Inf) gain Oct 1/63 Brashear City from desertion. Absent New Orleans.”
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JAMES HARVEY HENSLEY
Hospital Muster Roll• Dated July & Aug 1863• Present
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JAMES HARVEY HENSLEY
Hospital Muster Roll• Dated Sep & Oct 1863• Present• “Furloughed Sep 30/63”
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JAMES HARVEY HENSLEY
Kinda interesting so far, right?
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CIVIL WAR MUSTER RECORDS
Questions?