Next Prev Next Enter Your Search Terms Below Putting your search in quotes will search on the entire phrase - like "15th New Jersey". Limit to the first 10 20 50All results. Fox's Regimental Losses CHAPTER VII. MUSTER-OUT-ROLLS - ANTHROPOLOGICAL STATISTICS. E statistics presented in thoso pages are based largely on a personal examination of the muster-out-rolls of the various regiments. When a regiment was mustered out of service at the close of the war, —or at the expiration of its term of enlistment, -- each com pany in the organization was required to hand in a muster-out roll hearing the names of every man who, at any time, had served in it. The rolls, which wore furnished in blank for this purpose, were large sheets, nearly one yard square, ruled and printed with various headings. Each company-roll was made out separately, making ten rolls in all (if in a ten-company regiment), with an additional roll for the Field and Staff. Opposite each name was written the age of the person ; place of enlistment ; date of muster-in ; and, under the column of "Remarks," statements showing what became of the man ; --if dead, the cause, date, and place of death. These names were grouped under the various headings of: " Present at muster-out;" "Previously discharged;' "Transferred;" "Deserted;" "Killed in action;" " Died of wounds ;" and, "Died of disease ;" or other causes. Three copies of these rolls, sometimes more, were made, one of which was forwarded to the capital of the state to which the regi ment belonged, where it was filed in the office; of the state adjutant-general. These regi mental rolls and records may be found carefully preserved among the archives of each state, and it is evident that such of them as were properly made will show clearly and accu rately the mortuary losses of the regiments to which they pertain. The states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connec ticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan. Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and Kansas have printed and published the muster-out-mils of the regiments which they respectively furnished to the Union Armies. The name of each and every man who served in these regiments is preserved in print; the record of his patriotism is transmitted, and in time becomes the proudest heir-loom of his family. Some of these publications are, necessarily, voluminous. The rolls of the Illinois troops fill eight octavos ; the Indiana rolls require eight volumes of similar si/e ; the names of the men in the Massachusetts regiments fill two largo quartos of about one thousand pages each ; the Pennsylvania rolls,* as printed, cover 7,Ooo pages. Still, despite the tedious length of these rolls, the patient student will be able to compile from them the losses in nearly every regiment. The states of New York, Delaware and Maryland have never attached enough value to the patriotic services of their troops to publish their muster-out-rolls.t The manuscript rolls of the New York regiments are on file at Albany, and the historian must make a pilgrimage thither if he would learn anything concerning the heroes who followed the colors of the Empire State. •History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers: S. J'. Hates. tNew York published its muster-in-rolls. :i work of little value, as It is merely a list of names with no records attached ; there I* nothing In it to show that New York ever lost a man in battle, or that the regiments ever left the State. (57) _02770
