Why would a soldier from one state enlist with a regiment of a different state?

[Delaney]

How common was it for a person to enlist with a regiment of a different state than the state they resided in? My ancestor was from IL and joined in IL, but his regiment was from Missouri.

Did the regiments have recruitment quotas and did they send recruiters to various areas to fill their quotas?

Another question: in the remarks section of a "soldier's record card" for a Missouri infantryman it says this: "Corps" MR Dec 31, 1864

Corps was in quotes on the record. What does "MR" mean? According to another record this person entered his Civil War service as a private and mustered out as a sgt.

Thank you.

[proud texan]

Hello Ya'll !:D On the question... Could it be that the distances between in state towns on the border may have been greater than a jump across to the neighbouring state. I believe in this era, twenty miles was considered a hard days travel. In researching my family history; I found many instances of this happening between TEXAS and Louisianna men. Just a theory ....

[Natty]

Thousands of Marylanders went to Virginia and joined to fight for the Confederacy when MD did not secede from the Union. Virginia even had some all Maryland regiments.

Some Marylanders even joined North Carolina regiments.

[intothefight]

I have found incidents of Pennsylvanians enlisting in a New York Regiment and into the Ohio regiments of the Kanawha Division of the 9th Corps. Pennsylvania had reached its quota of troops so those Pennsylvanians who wanted to enlist crossed over state lines to do so.