Jim, As you know you can find information about the 187th Militia at: http://www.wvculture.org/HISTORY/wvmemory/militia/wvunmil.html I am afraid there is not much more then rosters and enlistment information available online. The enlistment record has the age sometimes which helps in identifying the individual. The website is searchable. Alfred Allen Hager was discharged from the service of the United States 17 Feb 1862 at Wheeling, W.Va. by command of Brig. Gen. Rosecrans in Special Order No. 37 Article 6, after becoming sick with typhoid fever. He served as a Private in Company G, 8th Regiment,(West) Virginia Volunteer Infantry from 24 Oct 1861 to 17 Feb 1862. He was then commissioned by Gov. Pierpont to Adjutant on 2 May 1862 in the W. Va. 187th Militia and served in that capacity until about 1865 when W. Va. military law was repealed. As the Adjutant he was responsible for organizing the Militia in Boone County and it looks like parts of Logan County now. He suffered from rheumatism for the rest of his life due to his illness from Civil War service. I thought he had only served with the 8th West Virginia Infantry which became the 7th West Virginia Calvary until Van Gale sent away for his Civil War pension records. Van has transcribed much of this pension record. I sent a copy of some it to this list back in March 2007. While searching for information about the West Virginia Militia I found Linda Fluharty had a lot of information so I sent her am e-mail asking about records for the 187th Militia as well as what an adjutant's duties were and she provided the following reply: ********************************************* From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 7:40 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Alfred Allen Hager Joel: An adjutant is a staff person who helps a superior officer, often as an administrative assistant. Regarding the 187th militia and the others in West Virginia, the database is on the WV State Archives site. - I have the same on microfilm. Unfortunately, there is very little in the way of records about the militiamen. There is more about the 133rd, which my ancestor served in because about 70 of the men were captured and were marched to Richmond and put in prison camps. 40+ of them died, including my ancestor at Andersonville Prison, GA. That was an unusual case and few others in the militia died. It is my understanding that militia service was part-time, often only a couple/few days a month. Their service involved protecting the community and keeping the guerrillas in check. You could check with the WV Archives and see if they have anything more about the 187th but I would be surprised if they do. Of course, there may be something more in a book about Boone County history. Sorry I don't have more information to impart. Linda Fluharty www.lindapages.com *********************************************** My cousin Van Gale made copies of everything in the 187th Militia folder in the State Archives, which he says was all pretty useless with the exception of a one page letter from Alfred Allen Hager to Governor Pierpont describing his successes and failures at organizing militias in Boone. He gave me a scanned copy of this document which I posted to the Hager Family Website. He also scanned a bill submitted by Robert Hager to the State House of Reps. that allocates funds to a group of people to reimburse them for militia expenses. The list included Alfred and Robert Hager, Adam Toney, and James Bias. They had a militia meeting at the house of "Thomas Copley" who is related to Alfred's later father-in-law Anthony Copley. Van Gale says that Adam Toney is an interesting case, because it looks like he signed up for the 22nd VA (Confederacy), deserted, and joined up with the 187th Boone County Militia. I also posted a copy of this letter to the Hager Family Website. Van Gale says he has an issue of West Virginia History magazine with militia rosters including the 187th, but there's nothing in them that wasn't already in the online rosters. There is a brief article about the 187th in the Boone County West Virginia History 1990, by the Boone County Genealogical Society, Inc. I also understand that Sigfus Olafson and David Anderson Turner have done some research on the Militia and may have published articles and maybe a book. Any information about where to find copies of these publications would be much appreciated. Joel -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jim Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2007 2:14 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [WVLOGAN] Logan and Boone Counties Militia Companies in 187th Militia Where did we find this information? Is there more data available as to exactly who these people are. I would like to add this to the data base but fear I may put the info Under the wrong person. Thanks Jim Burgess -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 7:55 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [WVLOGAN] Logan and Boone Counties Militia Companies in 187th Militia Hi I have a list of Captain Thomas Buchanan's company in the 187th Militia. I would like to know if anyone has information on this company. Albert Shannon 24 is listed as the 1st. Lieutenant Enlisted men were Lorenso D. Branning 20 - 4th Sgt. Abner Brown 18 Brian Browning 18 George F. Browning 21 Isaac Browning 18 Stephen Browning 21 Floyd Buchanan 18 James P. Burgess 21 James W. Burgess 19 Rufus O. Daniel 28 Emannel Deal 32 Harvy G. Elkins 45 Phillip Ellis 20 Wilson Gadd 34 William Haulstead 37 Steel Laverty 36 - 2nd Serg't Alexander McNaly 46 Michael Maunts 23 John D. Mitchell 43 Micajah Mitchell 24 Harrison Mullins 28 Joseph Parkman 34 Andrew J Perry 18 Benjamin F. Perry 59? - 3rd Serg't John E Perry 45 Jacob R. Rose 29 W.B. Shannon 33 Levi D. Tharp 37 John P Vance - 1st Serg't Benjamin H. White - 5th Serg't Allan Workman 19 Thank you Peggy ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message