Series 6195

DESCRIPTION: This filmed card file contains a partial listing of individuals who served in the territorial militia, also known as the Nauvoo Legion, from the 1850s into the 1870s. The card catalog apparently was begun as part of an attempt by the Military Records Section to create a comprehensive listing of all militia veterans by abstracting or indexing data from various publications and other series.

Each card provides the individual's name, rank, the name of the captain of the company in which he served, the dates of service, and often the number of his listing on a payroll. Ocassionally additional information will be written in: a pension claim number, the volume of the allegation ("alleg.") that he had served in Indian wars (no longer arranged in volumes), place of burial, etc. Reference to "doc. 19" corresponds to a book entitled Indian Depredations in Utah.

ARRANGEMENT: Cards are in alphabetical order by surname. Usually variant spellings of a name are listed together.

RELATED RECORDS: The TERRITORIAL MILITIA PAPERS, Series 2210, contain the original payrolls from which most of this data was abstracted. AFFIDAVITS CONCERNING SERVICE IN INDIAN WARS, Series 2217, are the allegations referred to, although the forms are now in alphabetical order instead of bound in the original volumes cited in this series.

PROCESSING NOTE: Abstracted by the Military Records Section in the early 1960s and microfilmed in 1966. Archivally processed by A.C. Cone in 1990.