Adjutant General's Office (Regular Army)
War Department. Adjutant General's Office Administrative History Note
National Archives Record Groups
- Record Group 94 Records of the Adjutant General's Office, 1780s-1917
- Lucille H. Pendell and Elizabeth Bethel. comps Preliminary Inventory of the Records of the Adjutant General's Office. Washington,DC: National Archives and Records Administration, 1949 FS Library Digital book
- Record Group 407 Records of the Adjutant General's Office 1917-
- National Archives Catalog Records of the Adjutant General's Office, 1905-1981, RG 407 NAID 703
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- Records of the Adjutant General's Office Record Group 94
- Indexes
- Index to general correspondence of The Adjutant General's Office, 1890-1917, NARA, M698, 1269 rolls
- Indexes to letters received by the office of The Adjutant General (Main Series), 1846, (1846-1848), 1861-1889, NARA, M725, 9 rolls
- Name and subject index to the letters received by the appointment, commission, and personal branch of the Adjutant General's Office, 1871- 1894, NARA, M1125, 4 rolls
- Correspondence
- Registers of letters received, 1812-1889 ; Letters received by the Office of the Adjutant General, main series, 1805-1821, 1822-1860, 1861-1870, 1871-1880, National Archives microfilm publications; M0711, M0666, M0566, M0567, M0619, M0689, M0619, 2192 rolls
- Letters sent by the Office of the Adjutant General, main series, 1800-1890, NARA, M565, 63 rolls
- Letters received by the Commission Branch of the Adjutant General's Office, 1863-1870, NARA, M1064, 477 Rolls
- Directories
- Army list and directory Washington, D.C. : Government Printing Office (United States), 1919-1939
Related Sources
- United States. War Department. General orders and circulars of the War Department and headquarters of the Army, 1809 - 1860. NARA M1094, 8 rolls
- U.S. War Department, Office of the Secretary of War, Indexes to letters received by the Secretary of War, 1861-1870 NARA pub M95
- U.S. War Department, Office of the Secretary of War, Letters received by the Secretary of War, unregistered series, 1789-1860, NARA pub M222
- compiled by Raphael P. Thian ; with addenda edited by John M. Carroll ; foreward by Robert M. Utley, Notes illustrating the military geography of the United States, 1813-1880 Washington : Government Printing Office, 1881; reprint. Austin, Texas : University of Texas Press, c1979 FS Library 973 M2tn
Other Sources - Civil War
- Beginning United States Civil War Research gives steps for finding information about a Civil War soldier or sailor. It covers the major records that should be used. Additional records are described in 'Florida in the Civil War' and 'United States Civil War, 1861 to 1865' (see below).
- National Park Service, The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System, is searchable by soldier's name and state. It contains basic facts about soldiers on both sides of the Civil War, a list of regiments, descriptions of significant battles, sources of the information, and suggestions for where to find additional information.
- United States Civil War, 1861 to 1865 describes and explains United States and Confederate States records, rather than state records, and how to find them. These include veterans’ censuses, compiled service records, pension records, rosters, cemetery records, Internet databases, published books, etc.
- Union Regular Army in the Civil War describes Union sources, specifically about the Union Regular Army in the Civil War, and how to find them.
References
- Francis B. Heitman. Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army: from its Organization, September 29, 1789 - March 2, 1903. 2 vols. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1903. FS Library Digital Book
- Charles K. Gardner, A dictionary of all officers : who have been commissioned, or have been appointed and served, in the army of the United States, since the inauguration of their first president, in 1789, to the first January, 1853 ... including the distinguished officers of the volunteers and militia of the states ... navy and marine corps, who have served with the land forces 2d ed., with emendations and a Supplement, New York, New York : D. Van Nostrand, 1860
- Thomas H.S. Hamersly, comp., Complete regular army register of the United States : for one hundred years (1779 to 1879) Together with the volunteer general staff during the war with Mexico, and a register of all appointments by the President of the United States in the volunteer service during the rebellion, with the official military record of each officer. Also, a military history of the Department of War, and of each staff department of the army. With various tables relating to the army and other important military information, compiled from the official records Washington : T.H S. Hamersley, 1880.