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| == "The Ainsworth List" ==
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| This list identifies the original records available to the War Department which were abstracted to create compiled military service records for individual soldiers. The list is arranged by military unit. The collection takes its name from General Fred Crayton Ainsworth, who was appointed head of the Record and Pension Division (R&P) of the Surgeon General's office in 1886. Ainsworth had clerks copy the
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| name, rank, military organization, and medical history of each soldier from the nineteen thousand Civil War hospital registers onto paper cards. After completing that task information from additional records were added. Additional records may also be found at a state archive or historical that were not available for carding.
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| This index was published as NARA Microcopy T-817, ''Lists of the Adjutant General's Office for Carded Records of Military Organizations: Revolutionary War Through Philippine Insurrection, "The Ainsworth List''. See FamilySearch Catalog record {{FSC|539623|title-id|disp=List of the Adjutant General's Office for carded records of military organizations: Revolutionary War through Philippine Insurrection : the Ainsworth list}}. See also, Claire Prechtel-Kluskens, "Thank you, General Fred C. Ainsworth!", ''NGS Magazine'', Vol. 37, #4, (October-December 2011), pages 54-57.
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| == Compiled Records Showing Service of Military Units == | | == Compiled Records Showing Service of Military Units == |