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 For [[Portal:Missouri|Missouri]] the following sources are also very helpful. Most are available at:
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 '''Office of the Adjutant General'''<br>1717 Industrial Drive<br>Jefferson City, MO 65101 <br>Internet: http://www.flra.gov/summaries/v58/58-103s.html
-Copies of many of the records are at the Family History Library and the St. Louis Public Library.
+Copies of many of the records are also available at the Family History Library and the St. Louis Public Library.
 === Revolutionary War (1775-1783)  ===
 An alphabetical list of soldiers, their birth dates, death dates, and military service is Alice Kinyoun Houts, ''Revolutionary Soldiers Buried in Missouri'' ([Kansas City, Missouri: Houts, 1966]; FHL book 977.8 M2ha).
+St. Louis Public Library owns NARA's microfilm set, ''General Index to Compiled Service Records of Revolutionary War Soldiers''.
 === War of 1812 (1812-1815)  ===
+St. Louis Public Library owns NARA's microfilm set, ''Index to Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Soldiers Who Served During the War of 1812''.
 Bounty land in Arkansas, Illinois, and Missouri was issued to soldiers who served in the War of 1812. Copies of the bounty land warrants are on 14 films at the Family History Library. The names of Missouri patentees are indexed on FHL film 983163. The records provide the name of the soldier and his rank, unit, date of warrant, and the date the land was located.
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 === Civil War (1861-1865)  ===
-Missouri soldiers served in both the Union and the Confederate armies. Indexes to the service records are available at the Family History Library. The federal service records are available at the National Archives.
+Missouri soldiers served in both the Union and the Confederate armies. Indexes to the service records are available at the Family History Library. The federal service records are available at the National Archives. St. Louis Public Library also owns a copy of the NARA indexes and compiled military service records for Missouri Union and Confederate soldiers.&nbsp; SLPL also owns NARA's Index to Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served With the United States Colored Troops.
 Pension records of Confederate veterans and soldier's home admission applications are alphabetized and available on FHL films 1021101-27 and at the Missouri Adjutant General's office. The Family History Library has an index to the Union army pensions, but the actual files are only at the National Archives.
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 A special 1890 census of Union veterans is at the National Archives and on FHL films 338186-93. A published index to this census is available.
-The Missouri State Archives includes in their collection a group of papers called the [http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/provost/ Provost Marshal Papers]. These are records from the Union Army War Department. Many of the records pertain to Confederate citizens and sympathizers. These records span 1861-1866 and an index to the Missouri portion of the records is available online. Copies of the records can be obtained by contacting the Missouri State Archives.
+The Missouri State Archives includes in their collection a group of papers called the [http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/provost/ Provost Marshal Papers]. These are records from the Union Army War Department. Many of the records pertain to Confederate citizens and sympathizers. These records span 1861-1866 and an index to the Missouri portion of the records is available online. Copies of the records can be obtained by contacting the Missouri State Archives.&nbsp; St. Louis Public Library owns the portion of the&nbsp;NARA microfilm set, ''Selected Records of the War Department Relating to Confederate Prisoners of War, 1861-1865'', that includes prisoners at Alton and Camp Douglas in Illinois, and Myrtle and Gratiot Street Prisons in St. Louis.
 === Spanish-American War (1898)  ===
-In addition to the federal records, the Missouri Adjutant General's office has muster rolls and an index to volunteers (FHL films 1021099-100).
+In addition to the federal records, the Missouri Adjutant General's office has muster rolls and an index to volunteers (FHL films 1021099-100).&nbsp; St. Louis Public Library owns the NARA microfilm set, ''General Index to Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Soldiers Who Served During the War with Spain and the Philippine Insurrection''.
 === World War I (1917-1918)  ===
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 World War I draft registration cards for men age 18 to 45 may list address, birth date, birthplace, race, nationality, citizenship, and next of kin. Not all registrants served in the war. For registration cards for Missouri see:
 *United States. Selective Service System. ''Missouri, World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918''. National Archives Microfilm Publications, M1509. Washington, DC: National Archives, 1987-1988. (On FHL films beginning with 1683089—.)
+*St. Louis Public Library owns the portion of the above-named mcirofilm set that contains records for men from St. Louis City and County.
 To find an individual's draft card, it helps to know his name and residence at the time of registration. The cards are arranged alphabetically by county, within the county by draft board, and then alphabetically by surname within each draft board.
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 http://www.slpl.lib.mo.us/library.htm
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 http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/
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 http://www.genealogybranches.com/worldwaronedraftcards.html
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