Series 6195

Division of Archives and Records Service Territorial militia service cards

Dates: i 1850-1880.

1 microfilm reel

These records are housed in the Utah State Archives' permanent storage room.

Scope and Content

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. Occasionally 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.

Images Available

This series is available on microfilm.

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Access Restrictions

This series is designated as Public.

Reproduction and Use

These records are available for reproduction and use.

Related Records

Territorial militia records from the Division of Archives and Records Service, Series 2210, contains payrolls from which much of this data was abstracted.

Indian War service affidavits from the Commissioner of Indian War Records, Series 2217, contains statements of militia service for many of these same individuals.

Indexing Terms

Military history--Utah--George.

Utah--Militia.

Nauvoo Legion--Utah

Indian wars--Utah--George

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