AGENCY: National Guard
SERIES: 6308
TITLE: Adjutant General's records
DATES: i 1895-1965.
ARRANGEMENT: Chronological. Enclosures and endorsements may be kept together under one date.
DESCRIPTION: This series provides a comprehensive account of the duties and activities of the office of the Adjutant General, the chief administrative officer of the National Guard. The series contains administrative papers, personnel data, fiscal papers, and historical information on the guard, its units, and its involvement in both state and federal actions. Correspondence with the federal War Department (later known as the Department of Defense) shows the evolution of the Guard from state to federal control.
Routine administrative functions represented throughout include orders, fiscal reports, supply purchases, and reports to the governor. Programs for encampments and various drills are frequent. Federal recognition of units generates numerous orders, rosters, and memoranda. Personnel papers include some enlistment, muster, and pay rolls; morning reports (drill attendance); firearms qualifications; accident, illness, injury, and death reports and investigations; promotions; demotions; etc.
There is much correspondence on use of federal facilities at Fort Douglas, and the construction of Camp Williams and armories around the state. It relates to work done by the Guard, private contractors, and the Works Progress Administration and includes some blueprints, copies of land titles, bills and receipts.
Records were created when the Guard was called into federal service at the time of the Spanish American War, the Mexican border campaign, World War I, and World War II. The office also documented the history of Guard units and Utah veterans of federal service from militia days to the Korean conflict. Records include unit histories, correspondence, pictures for designing regimental insignia, and World War I card files on veterans from Utah created by the federal War Department.
Other records document the Guard's role during labor strikes at mines; in police surveillance of strikers, communists, and other "subversives;" and the Adjutant General's arrangements for gubernatorial inaugurations.
Over the years, various types of documents have been filed as separate series. By the mid-1960s there are separate series for correspondence, morning reports, orders, etc.
RETENTION
DISPOSITION
RETENTION AND DISPOSITION AUTHORIZATION
These records are in Archives' permanent custody.
FORMAT MANAGEMENT
Paper: Retain in State Archives permanently with authority to weed.
Microfiche master: Retain in State Archives permanently with authority to weed.
Microfiche duplicate: Retain in State Archives permanently with authority to weed.
APPRAISAL
Historical
This disposition is based on the extensive and intensive information provided on the Guard, its units, and its personnel.
PRIMARY DESIGNATION
Public
SECONDARY DESIGNATION
Private. data on individuals including some personnel records, orders, correspondence, accident and injury reports, etc.
Controlled. data on individual psychiatric history