Service Records of Volunteers, 1784-1811
Records: 20,818 · Complete: 99%
The compiled service records consist of a jacket-envelope for each soldier with card abstracts of entries relating to the soldier as found in original muster rolls, payrolls, receipt rolls, returns, and lists. Unit information precedes the records of the soldiers within each unit. The unit cards typically include information on when, where, and under whom the unit operated.
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Fold3, Service Records of Volunteers, 1784-1811 (/title/788/service-records-of-volunteers-1784-1811 :accessed June 1, 2020), database and images, https://www.fold3.com/title/788/service-records-of-volunteers-1784-1811
- Publication Title
- Service Records of Volunteers, 1784-1811
- Total Records
- Records: 20,818 · Complete: 99%
- Content Source
The National Archives
- Publication Number:
- M905
- Record Group:
- 94
- Published on Fold3
- January 12, 2012
- Last Updated
- June 22, 2015
- Description
- NARA M905. Compiled service records of volunteer soldiers who served between the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812.