New York State Bureau of Military Statistics Registers of Officers and Enlisted Men Mustered into Federal Military or Naval…

This series is organized into three subseries: 1. Volunteers Now in Service; 2. Volunteers Who Have Been in Service; 3. Volunteers Who Have Died While in Service. Within each subseries, arrangement is alphabetical by county, then alphabetical by city, town, or village, then numeric by ward number within cities. Some information on Rensselaer County is found at the very beginning of Volume 3 with the bulk found in its proper alphabetical slot later in that volume.

The Bureau of Military Statistics was originally established within the Adjutant General's Office pursuant to Special Order No. 866 issued on December 20, 1862 by the Adjutant General. The legislature recognized this action by appropriating $6000 in order to allow the bureau to fulfill its mandated duties as defined in Chapter 113 of the Laws of 1863. Chief among these included the collection and preservation of an "authentic sketch of every person from this State who has volunteered into the service of the general government" since April 15, 1861. The volumes that comprise this series were compiled in partial fullment of that directive.

This series consists of six folio sized volumes providing both military and civil information on New York men mustered into federal military or naval service during the Civil War. Much of the information contained in this series was compiled from questionnaires mailed by the bureau to the soldiers themselves, friends, relatives, medical officers in charge of United States hospitals, and local officials. This data collection process was most likely carried out sometime between 1863 and 1867. The data was then arranged into three categories: 1) New York Volunteers in Service; 2) New York Volunteers Formerly In Service; and 3) New York Volunteers, Deceased. These categories constitute the three subseries into which the series is arranged.

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Series 13774 New York State Adjutant General's Office Town and City Registers of Men Who Served in the Civil War contains related records.

SEries 13775 New York State Adjutant General's Office Civil War Muster Roll Abstracts contains related records.

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