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Title

Register of letters received

Series Number

13722

Summary

For each letter received, these registers provide date of receipt; sender's name; file number assigned; addressee's name, place, and date of writing; disposition; and a one line summary of the contents. These volumes serve as the name index to a portion of the correspondence and petitions files in Series B0462.

Creator

• New York (State). Adjutant General's Office

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.

Title

Examples of state commissions issued to military officers

Series Number

A4112

Summary

This series consists of commissions utilized by northern states in commissioning general officers during the Civil War. The commissions are blank except for signatures of appropriate state officials (i.e., adjutant-general or governor) and the state seal. The commissions were collected by the Bureau of Military Statistics in 1865. The chief of the bureau, in his first annual report, announced that it would be the bureau's intention to seek for "every fact relating to the rebellion."

Creator

• New York (State). Bureau of Military Statistics

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.

Title

World War I veterans' service data and photographs

Series Number

A0412

Summary

This series contains personal information, service data, newspaper clippings, and photographs of New York State veterans of World War I. Some accounts of home front activities in the state are also included. The series contains a small amount of material documenting the manner in which the State Education Department, the state's schools, faculty, and students contributed to the war effort.

Creator

• New York (State). Education Department. Division of Archives and History

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this series.

Title

Administrative correspondence and related records

Series Number

A4106

Summary

This series consists mainly of incoming correspondence to the Quartermaster General's office but also includes copies of special orders and resolutions of the Military Board, invoices, vouchers, receipts, cancelled checks, inspection reports, and samples of cloth to be used in manufacturing uniforms. Much of the series deals with the procurement, inspection, issuance, and payment of uniforms, rations and tents during the Civil War. There is also a large amount of correspondence directed to "Acting Assistant Quartermaster General" Chester A. Arthur.

Creator

• New York (State). Quartermaster General's Office

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.

Title

Name index to abstracts of muster rolls of National Guard Units mustered into federal service during the Civil War

Series Number

B1833

Summary

This series consists of a typewritten name index to State Archives series B0800, Abstracts of muster rolls of Militia or National Guard units mustered into federal service during the Civil War, created by staff of the Adjutant General's Office. Each entry consists of name and regimental unit.

Creator

• New York (State). Adjutant General's Office

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.

Title

Register of soldiers who visited the Washington office

Series Number

A4136

Summary

This register contains names and needs of soldiers who visited the Washington, D.C. office of the New York Military Agency between December, 1863 and May, 1865. Information in the register includes soldier's name, rank, residence, regiment, company, location, date and reason for visit.

Creator

• New York Military Agency

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.

Title

Abstracts of National Guard service in World War I

Series Number

13721

Summary

The series consists of abstracts for officers and enlisted men in units of the New York National Guard who were mustered into the U.S. Army during World War I. Each individual's entry includes: U.S. Army serial number; date and place of commission or enlistment; muster dates (N.Y. and U.S. with rank, company, and regiment); and date, rank, and reason (type of discharge or transfer) for leaving service. Sometimes additional remarks detail service overseas, promotions, or service conduct.

Creator

• New York (State). Adjutant General's Office

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.

Title

Name index to Civil War muster roll abstracts

Series Number

B1832

Summary

This series consists of a partial name index to series 13775, Civil War Muster Roll Abstracts of New York Volunteers. It does not include the names of men who served in the United States Colored Troops whose muster roll abstracts are included in series 13775. Each entry consists of name and regimental unit. The index was created over a number of years by staff of the Adjutant General's Office.

Creator

• New York (State). Adjutant General's Office

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.

Title

Case registers of New York medical agents

Series Number

A4137

Summary

This series consists of two bound volumes compiled by Medical agents assigned to the Washington office of the New York Military Agency. The registers date between February, 1865 and September, 1866. Volume one relates mainly to the processing of soldiers' claims for back pay, invalid pensions, or other monetary concerns. Volume two records claims of soldiers in hospitals applying for discharges, transfers, or furloughs.

Creator

• New York Military Agency

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.

Title

Correspondence pertaining to enrollment procedures

Series Number

A4124

Summary

This series consists mainly of incoming correspondence directed to Brigadier General Isaac Vanderpoel, Engineer in Chief and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General. The bulk of the correspondence deals with the enrollment of men into the State's National Guard. The majority of the records pertain to routine administrative matters such as requests for enrollment books; appointments of enrolling officers; transmission of enrollment records and lists of names of enrolling officers for regimental districts; and questions concerning specific enrollment procedures.

Creator

• New York (State). Office of Engineer in Chief

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.

Title

Enrollment lists for the 14th District, New York State

Series Number

A4119

Summary

This series consists of printed lists (on rag paper) of men enrolled, and therefore liable to military duty, residing in the 14th Enrollment District of the State, apparently comprising Albany and Schoharie counties. The lists provide the names of all men between the ages of twenty and forty-five who were subject to the draft. The lists consist of two parts: the lists of names, and a prefatory statement at the top of each list.

Creator

• New York State War Council. Committee on Child Care, Development, and Protection

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.

Title

Adjutant General's Office resignations and various claims records

Series Number

A4125

Summary

This series consists of a small quantity of resignations, submitted by officers resigning their commissions, forwarded to the Adjutant General's Office. The resignation will normally provide the name of the individual resigning, rank, regiment, date, and reason for resignation. The remainder of the series consists of a varied collection of vouchers and receipts which pertain mainly to expenditures incurred by National Guard units after the Civil War.

Creator

• New York (State). Adjutant General's Office

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.

Title

Paymaster General's Office administrative files

Series Number

A4118

Summary

This series consists of correspondence, vouchers, abstracts and statements of receipt, lists of expenditures, copies of special orders, reports, claims, lists of officers and men paid, and volunteer certificates issued for bounty money received. The records in this series deal mainly with routine administrative duties such as certifying the accuracy of accounts submitted for payment and the actual payment of funds to individuals for goods or service purchased by the state's military establishment.

Creator

• New York (State). Paymaster General's Office

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.

Title

Register of supernumerary officers

Series Number

13727

Summary

This volume consists of an alphabetical register of officers in the New York State Militia and National Guard who were retired or discharged. Each entry provides the name of officer; office held; regiment number; brigade, division, or corps; residence; date of certificate of discharge; and remarks.

Creator

• New York (State). Adjutant General's Office

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.

Title

National Guard muster rolls

Series Number

13726

Summary

This series consists of muster rolls for each division and brigade in the New York National Guard, as well as all organizations in the New York Naval Militia. Information provided generally includes: name; rank; whether present or absent at annual muster; date of rank; date and rank of original entry into service; and remarks on any change in status. Each roll also lists names of men gained or lost since the last annual muster, by discharge, promotion, expulsion, transfer, removal, desertion, or death. NOTE: Only Naval Militia muster rolls are available for the period 1942-1954.

Creator

• New York (State). Adjutant General's Office

Title

Revolutionary War accounts and claims

Series Number

A0200

Summary

This series consists of documents compiled by auditors related to liquidating financial obligations incurred by New York State during the Revolutionary War. The records document the service of and compensation due to soldiers and others who provided goods or services to the State during the war. Most documents are financial in naturebut also included are certificates by commanding officers, assignments of land bounty rights, several muster and pay rolls, and documentation of the seizure and sale of loyalists' lands.

Creator

• New York (State). Comptroller's Office

Access Restrictions

Users are referred to microfilm as first use copy. Documents in this series that suffered severe burn damage are closed to use.

Title

Administrative correspondence files

Series Number

A4111

Summary

The bulk of this series consists of incoming correspondence received by the Bureau of Military Statistics and its successor, the Bureau of Military Record dealing with the acquisition of information needed by the bureau in order to perform its duties. subject include raising and equipping of volunteer regiments; appointments of officers to volunteer units; desertions by soldiers; drafting of men to fill quotas; number of men and financial aid provided by counties; and bounties paid to soldiers.

Creator

• New York (State). Bureau of Military Statistics

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.

Title

Ledgers pertaining to bounties authorized by Chapter 184, Laws of 1863

Series Number

A4139

Summary

Three oversized volumes record bounty payments disbursed by the Paymaster General's Office between 1863 and 1866 as authorized by legislation of 1863. Soldiers were paid different bounties according to the length of time they had served in regiments.

Creator

• New York (State). Paymaster General's Office

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.

Title

Registers of officers and enlisted men mustered into federal military or naval service during the Civil War

Series Number

A0389

Summary

In 1863, the State Legislature mandated that the Bureau of Military Statistics collect and preserve an "authentic sketch of every person from this State who has volunteered into the service of the general government" since April 15, 1861. The six volumes that comprise this series were compiled in partial fullment of that directive. The volumes contain both military and civil information on New York men mustered into federal military or naval service during the Civil War.

Creator

• New York (State). Bureau of Military Statistics

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this series.

Title

Telegrams received and sent by the Governor's Office

Series Number

A4149

Summary

This series consists of original and duplicate telegrams pertaining to military matters received and sent by Governor Edwin D. Morgan's office, including telegrams received from and sent to President Lincoln and members of his cabinet and staff. It is not exactly clear how the Adjutant General's Office came into possession of these records, though they may have been acquired by the Bureau of Military Statistics.

Creator

• New York (State). Bureau of Military Statistics

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.