The following information was abstracted from Compiled Military Service Records, Records of the Adjutant General's Office, Record Group 15, National Archives Building, Washington, DC.
These compiled military service records include summary 'cards' drawn from (for example)
1. Company Muster-In Rolls which detail the months in service (or absence and the reason), promotions and demotions, reenlistments;
2. Company Muster-Out Rolls
3. Descriptive List of Deserters (if applicable)
4. Muster and Descriptive Rolls of Veteran Volunteers [for those who reenlist, and which basically duplicates reenlistment info we gleaned from the Illinois State Archives web site]
5. Detachment Muster-out Rolls
6. Special Muster Rolls
7. Casualty Sheets (if applicable)
8. Memorandum from Prisoner of War Records (if applicable)
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Abstracted information: Company E, 59th Regiment Illinois
Soldier: Frederick HENRY [Note: The German spelling of his surname is HEINRICH] --Muster In: at St. Louis Arsenal, Missouri 7 Aug 1861, joined at Illinoistown --Company Muster Roll Jan and Feb 1862: Absent. Remarks: Absent sick in Otterville in Hospt since Jan 22, 1862. [Taken from] Second Auditor's Roll. -- Veteran Volunteer Enlistment: Whiteside, Tennessee dated 1 Jan 1864. Frederick HENRY signed these papers in German as Friederich HEINRICH. --Muster and Descriptive Roll of Veteran Volunteers, Whiteside, Tennessee dated 12 Jan 1864: $340.00 due to soldier to be 'credited to' Centerville [sic], St. Clair Co., Ills. Frederick was age 27, a farmer when enlisted 1 Jan 1864. Reenlisted for 3 years. gray eyes, dark hair, fair complexion, 5 feet 9 inches tall. Birthplace noted as Hardan [or Hardau] Germany --Detachment Muster-out: 31 Dec 1863, roll dated at White Sille [sic], Tennessee 12 Jan 1864, last paid date 31 Oct 1863 with $$14.65 due to the U.S. for clothing. Remarks: "[mustered out] by reason of reenlistment as a Vet Vol." --Company Muster Roll Jan and Feb 1864: Absent. Remarks: reenlisted as Veteran on 30 days furlough from Feb 18 by order Lt. Col Oaks [present thereafter until: --Company Muster Roll July, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec 1864 absent on detached service [from Co. E, 59th Illinois Infantry], veteran --Company Muster Rolls dated Jan through April 1865: Absent on detached service with Div Ambulance train; May through Oct 1865: Absent on Detached service in Hospital train by order of Maj Genl Stanley. [Hospital train and Ambulance train different or same?] --Company Muster Out Roll dated 8 Dec 1865 at New Braunsfels, Tex showed he had been paid $210 through 30 Apl. 1865; he owed the U.S. $10.12 for clothing; and the U.S. owed him $190.00. He was age 27 at this time. |