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: Herman Smink [Schmenk] --Company Muster Roll: Aug 7 to 31 1861 Absent. Remarks: Absent with expired pass Aug 31 (dated). --Company Muster Rolls Sep through Dec 1861 and Jan through Aug 1862: Present. --Company Muster Roll: Sep and Oct 1862. Remarks: Absent sick at Louisville Ky 25 Oct 1862. --Company Muster Roll: Nov and Dec 1862. Remarks: Absent sick Wounded in Hand in Battle of Murfreesboro Tenn 31 Dec 1862. --Company Muster Roll: Sep and Oct 1863. Remarks: Absent sick at Chattanooga, Tenn --Certificate of Disability for Discharge [notations from various personnel when document received and filed]. Head Qrs Dept Cumberland Chattanooga Tenn. 23 Jan 1864 To be discharged By command of Maj Genl Thomas. Herman Smink, private, enlisted at Belleville Illinois on 2 August 1861 to serve three years; born in [blank], Germany, is thirty nine years old, five feet six inches, fair complexion, blue eyes, light brown hair, a bricklayer when enlisted. Unfit for duty the last 61 days ". . . in the hospital since January 63 and has not done one months service since then." dated 21 Dec 1863 by Capt James M. Stookey at Whiteside Tenn.. Surgeon [WE?] Hendricks wrote Herman was incapable of performing duties of a soldier because of "Rheumatism of more than a year Standing attended for months past with Symptoms of Organic Lesion of the Heart in such a degree as wholly disqualified from any kind of duty and is not, in my opinion fit for duty in the Invalid Corps" DISCHARGED 28 Jan 1864 at Chattanooga, Tenn; "The place where the soldier desires to be addressed: Town-Millstadt, County- St. Clair, State-Illinois." --Casualty Sheet of Wounded: Herman Smink at battle of Murfreesboro; slight wound hand. Herman was part of 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 14th Corps, Co. E, 59th Illinois Infantry --Casualty Sheet of Wounded: Heman Smith [sic] at battle of Murfreesboro or Stone River, Tenn. Wounded from 31 Dec 1862 to 3 Jan 1863 (nature and location of wound not stated). --Memorandum from Prisoner of War Records. Herman Smink Captured at Murfreesboro Tenn 31 Dec 1862, confined at Richmond, Va., 16 Jan 1863; Paroled at City Point Va 26 Jan 1863; reported at Camp Parole, Md., 27 Jan 1863; sick in quarters at C.P. Md. 28 Feb 1863 with Dys [dysentery?]. Sent to BBKs Mo [Benton Barracks, Missouri], 11 Mar 1863 absent without leave from BBks Mo 30 April 1863. [Notations at top: "BB Roll 244; CP Roll vol. 7: 218; CP Roll vol. 46: Encl 4; Mis vol. 37: 268 1/2; CP vol. 1: 360; Mis Rolls 552: 10 and 404; OR Ex vol 5 [or OK Ex vol. 5] --Company Muster Out Roll dated 8 Dec 1865 at New Braunsfels, Tex showed he had been paid nothing through 30 June 1862; and the U.S. owed him $100.00. He was age 35 at this time. "Discharged on Surg[eon's] Cert. of Disability at Nashville Tenn Dec. 18, [18]63 by order of Maj Genl Thomas" |