This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/XY.2ADE/723.2 Message Board Post: Caitlin, In the August 1973 issue of the Boulder Genealogical Society Quarterly (Vol 5, No 3) is this article - "History and Muster Roll of Tyler's Ranger, Colorado Militia". I don't have that issue but you can try the Society ( http://www.rootsweb.com/~bgs/ ) or contact Carnegie Library ( http://www.rootsweb.com/~bgs/library.html ) in Boulder. During the Civil War many, if not all, regular Army units went East. To protect Colorado militia units were formed ; this is not completely accurate but I think of those units as the National Guard of the day. They were typically formed around a Captain or higher, so this is probably a Capt. Tyler. And the troops often came from the same town. There was a major battle early between other militia units and the Confederate Army, when the Confederates came up from New Mexico to try to take Denver and the gold fields. The militia won at the Battle of Glorietta Pass and it has been called the "Gettysburg of the West." (Don't know if Tyler's Rangers were there). Also these militia were used for Indian raids and battles. I googled and found this memoir written in 1913 by a man in Arizonia http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/az/pima/bios/atkinson.txt He had joined the Rangers in 1864 when he lived in Denver and said his unit participated in the Sand Creek Massacre. In that action many of the militia units were absorbed and reorganized into the 2nd and 3rd Colorado Calvary. Regards, David