Adjutant and inspector Generals Office. During the War Between the States the Adjutant General’s Department shared the task of mobilizing troops with the Adjutant General from each of the respective states. State militias were still under the authority of the state governors. Under this system, the Federal Government issued calls for troops, but the Governors and their Adjutant Generals were responsible for recruiting and initially equipping the troops until they were mustered into service. State Adjutant Generals kept records of each citizen who served in Civil War armies. Following the war, however, the Adjutant General’s Department became responsible for creating and maintaining the personnel records of serving soldiers for the purposes of pensions. Most of the information for these records was provided by “muster rolls” produced by the various state regiments during the course of the war. Forty-four years later in 1909, the Adjutant General’s Department finally completed the task.

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