Could you please give the web address for the state archives web site? Thanks, Carolyn Chapman ILLOGAN-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > Subject: > > ILLOGAN-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 123 > > Today's Topics: > #1 [ILLOGAN-L] Civil War Muster Roll [clrothwell@mindspring.com] > > Administrivia: > To unsubscribe from ILLOGAN-D, send a message to > > ILLOGAN-D-request@rootsweb.com > > that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > > and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software > requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: [ILLOGAN-L] Civil War Muster Roll > Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 21:03:10 -0400 > From: clrothwell@mindspring.com > To: ILLOGAN-L@rootsweb.com > > Not too long ago someone asked me about the Civil War Muster Roll available > from the State Archives. At the time I couldn't find the copy I had but now > it has turned up. My example is from Company G of the 106th Infantry. They > send you both pages, rather like the census images with a right and left > page. Those at the top of the list are fairly easy to read -- a magnifying > glass is useful -- but as they progress down the page [at least in my > example] it gets worse to impossible near the bottom. Of course, I asked > for the what turned out to be the first name on the page so perhaps they > weren't too concerned about doing the bottom right for me. > > Here's what it tells me: Downing, George H., rank private, age 29, 5'10" > tall, dark hair, blue eyes, fair complexion, married, a carpenter, born > Pike County, OH, enrolled Aug 5, 1862, by Benj Williams, for three years, > mustered in Sept 14, 1862, at Lincoln by Lt. ?, residence Lincoln, Logan > County, IL, bunch of columns ignored, mustered out July 12, 1865, Pine > Bluff, AR, by Lt. ?, remarks promoted Corpl. > > This is quite different from the National Archives records which were > basically bimonthly check in sheets. I got a few more pages on my great > great grandfather but only because he died and they had to fill out more > forms, one certifying the death and saying he had been paid and the other > inventorying his effects. > > I think the Illinois information is much more personal. It is also free. > For details check out the state archives web site. > > Cheryl Rothwell > LoganCty@mindspring.com > Coordinator, Logan County, ILGenWeb Project > http://www.rootsweb.com/~illogan/loindex.htm > Logan County mailing list> LOGAN-L-request@rootsweb.com > Downing mailing list> DOWNING-L-request@rootsweb.com > Harding mailing list> HARDING-L-request@rootsweb.com > Downing query board> > http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/FamilyAssoc/Downing > Lucas query board> > http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/FamilyAssoc/Lucas