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Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Versailles Circuit Records, 1859-1901 (C1864)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Register includes names of members and probationers in the Versailles Circuit, Jefferson City District, Missouri, how and when received and disposed of--whether by death, certificate, withdrawal, or expulsion--and some baptism and marriage records.
Millar Family Papers, 1840-1899 (R0162)
0.02 cubic foot (2 folders)
The Millar Family Papers contain photocopies of miscellaneous papers of the Millar family of Mississippi County, Missouri. The collection includes a diary of a trip from Scioto
County, Ohio to Mississippi County in 1840, land and tax papers, slave records, and receipts issued by the Missouri State Guard at New Madrid during the Civil War.
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Elihu L. Miller Diary, 1863-1865 (C2634)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
The collection contains a diary recording movements of the 10th Missouri Cavalry, Company R.
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Duncan C. and James R. Milner Letters, 1863-1865 (C0365)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
The collection contains typed copies of letters from soldiers in Sherman's army to relatives in Ohio describing army life. Telegram to Sherman from Henry Halleck, 1864, announcing victory over enemy in battle. Letters pertaining to James R. Milner's assignment in the army.
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John A. Minter Papers, 1864-1871 (C0472)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Commission as colonel from the Confederate States of America War Department and notice of ordination as minister by Corinth United Baptist Church, Lewis County, Missouri.
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Miscellaneous Manuscripts, 1781-1892 (C2293)
0.23 cubic feet (11 folders)
The collection contains poems, receipts, documents, newspapers and correspondence concerning business, law, appointments, teaching, politics, insurance, pensions, land, health, cholera, medicine, weather, news of friends and relatives, degrees, autographs, letter of introduction, and the Civil War: secession, orders and battles.
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Missouri Civil War Documents, 1863-1867 (C2671)
0.2 cubic feet
The collection contains oaths of loyalty; reports of E. Anson More, quartermaster general of Missouri; and special orders from the adjutant general's office. All concern members of the Missouri Militia from various regiments and companies.
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Missouri Civil War Special Orders, 1863-1864 (C3160)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Special order from Office of the Provost Marshal General, Department of the Missouri, paroling Richard B. Keeble, and special order from the Adjutant General's Office, State of Missouri, calling George C. Gaddy's Company, Enrolled Missouri Militia, into active service.
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Missouri Constitution, 1865 (C2866)
1 oversize item
German edition, published by Westliche Post, 1865.
Missouri Defense Warrants, 1864 (C3382)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Defense warrants issued by the State of Missouri for five, ten, twenty, and fifty dollars.
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Missouri Infantry Regiment, Phelps's, Quartermaster Records, 1862 (R0272)
(1 roll of microfilm)
The Missouri Infantry Regiment, Phelps’s Quartermaster Records contain a microfilm copy of the accounts kept by Lieutenant Robert B. Owens, quartermaster for the Phelps’s Regiment while stationed at Rolla, Lebanon, and Springfield, Missouri in 1862. The accounts include records of receipt and issue of food, forage, clothing and camp equipage, lists of civilians employed by the army, and notes on wagon trains in quartermaster service.
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MISSOURI RURALIST Collection, 1951 (C1917)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Four letters submitted to MISSOURI RURALIST Old Letters Contest.
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Independence, Missouri, Notebook, 1961 (C2192)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
The collection contains a notebook compiled by the citizenship classes of Mrs. Ruby Akers Gerrard and William Chrisman, Division II, Independence, MO, on Civil War history of Independence and Jackson County, MO.
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Missouri, Wayne County Collection, 1985 (C4673)
2 audio cassettes
Audio recordings of Wayne County, Missouri, residents concerning the settlement, education, business, transportation, religion, Civil War, and other aspects of the history of the county.
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Missouri. Confederate Artillery, King's Battery, Historic Roll, no date (C1498)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
The collection contains photostats of a historic roll of Captain Houston King's Battery, originally known as the Clark Battery, 2nd Missouri Artillery, Little's Division. An abstract of information in the roll is also included. The original of roll is in the Missouri Adjutant General's office.
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Missouri. Artillery, 2nd Regiment Company B Order Book, 1862-1869 (C1167)
0.1 cubic feet (1 volume)
The collection contains Civil War orders for the 2nd Regiment, Company B.
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Missouri. Artillery, 2nd Regiment Order Book, 1861-1862 (C1166)
0.1 cubic feet (1 volume)
Civil War order book for southwestern district headquarters, under the command of General Samuel R. Curtis.
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Missouri. Cavalry 10th Regiment Volunteers Morning Reports, 1864-1865 (C1169)
0.1 cubic feet (1 volume)
The collection contains Civil War morning reports written from Memphis, Tennessee, by M.H. Lusk, Commander.
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Missouri. Cavalry. 1st Battalion. United States Reserve Corps Record Books, 1861-1865 (C2493)
0.22 cubic feet (2 volumes)
Vol. 1 Company orders, 1 March 1862-1 February 1863.
Vol. 2 Company clothing, 1 September 1861-1 October 1865.
Three companies of the 1st Battalion, USRC, consolidated with other troops to form the 5th Missouri Cavalry in 1862.
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Missouri. Cavalry, 1st Regiment, Missouri State Militia, Company K Reports, 1864-1865 (C2069)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Morning reports and remarks.
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Missouri. Cavalry, 1st Regiment. Company K Records, 1856-1887 (C1022)
0.2 cubic feet (13 folders)
Records created by the Captain and 1st lieutenant, including invoices of ordnance or equipment, reports of quartermaster's property received or lost, special requisitions and legal papers issued to and by Company K of the 1st Missouri Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army.
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Missouri. Cavalry, 2nd Regiment, Volunteers, Missouri State Militia, Company L, Papers, 1865 (C2871)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
The muster-out roll of Company L, and a brief history of Civil War service of that company. OVERSIZE.
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Missouri. Cavalry, 4th Regiment, Missouri State Militia, Company K, Muster-Out Roll, 1865 (C2706)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Muster-out roll and payroll for this company.
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Missouri. Cavalry, 8th Regiment, Volunteers, Company L, Muster-Out Roll, 1863 (C2872)
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Muster-out roll. OVERSIZE.
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Missouri. Cavalry, 9th Regiment, Volunteers, Mo. State Militia, Company F, Muster-Out Roll, 1865 (C2736)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
The collection contains a Civil War muster-out roll of Winfield S. Wood's Company.
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Confederate Home (Higginsville, Mo.) Records, 1897-1944 (C0066)
2.6 cubic feet, 12 oversize volumes; also available on 7 rolls of microfilm
Financial material, correspondence, contracts, minutes and reports, blueprints, and photographs. Volumes include journals, ledgers, farm accounts, voucher register, cash book, and general records.
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Missouri. General Assembly (Confederate) Archives, 1861 (C2722)
0.04 cubic feet (2 folders)
Bills, resolutions and amendments for the Confederate General Assembly, November 1861, under the governorship of Claiborne Fox Jackson. Includes a letter from C.F. Jackson, the act withdrawing Missouri from the Union, an act to provide for electing representatives to the Confederate States of America Congress, and other acts.
Missouri. General Assembly (Confederate) Journal, 1861 (C2502)
0.2 cubic feet (3 folders, 1 volume)
Journal of the Rebel House, sitting at Neosho, 21 October 1861, in pursuance of the proclamation of Governor C.F. Jackson calling for secession. Also a printed copy of the Journal of the State session dealing with the same proclamation.
United States. Army. Missouri Infantry Regiment, 18th Papers, 1861-1865 (C2616)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Official correspondence; lists of missing after the battle of Shiloh; request for change from infantry regiment to cavalry. The unit was also known as Morgan's Rangers and in 1864 was changed to the 18th Regiment, Veteran Volunteers.
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Missouri. Infantry (Confederate), Levin M. Lewis' Regiment (16th Mo.) Co. C Muster Roll, 1863 (C1920)
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Muster roll, August 31, 1863, for Captain Samuel Smith's company of Lewis' Regiment.
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Missouri. Infantry, 17th Regiment, Volunteers, Company G, Muster-Out Roll, 1864 (C2869)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Muster-out roll of Company G, Missouri 17th Volunteer Infantry, or Western Turner Rifle Regiment; mustered 25 September 1861 and discharged 27 September 1864. OVERSIZE.
Missouri. Infantry, 1st Regiment, Volunteers, Rifle Battalion, Companies A & B Muster Roll, 1861 (C1964)
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Muster roll of Missouri Volunteer Infantry, 1st Regiment, Rifle Battalion, Companies A and B.
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Missouri. Infantry, 21st Regiment, Volunteers Papers, 1861-1969 (C4255)
0.5 cubic feet (17 folders)
The papers contain copies of pension records, military records, and memoirs of members of the Missouri Infantry, 21st Regiment, Volunteers, and other material pertaining to Civil War soldiers.
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Missouri. Infantry, 21st Regiment, Volunteers, Company C, Muster-Out Roll, 1862 (C2870)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Muster-out roll of Company C, which was mustered into service 1 February 1862 by Lt. E.A. Moore. OVERSIZE.
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Missouri. Infantry, 21st Regiment, Volunteers, Company D, Muster-Out Roll, 1863 (C2873)
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Civil War muster-out roll of Missouri Infantry, 21st Regiment, Volunteers, Company D. OVERSIZE.
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Missouri. Infantry 2nd Regiment Volunteers Order Book, 1859-1869 (C1173)
0.06 cubic feet (1 volume)
Orders and equipment issued at headquarters to members of the regiment, 1859-1869.
Also contains sales book of William Sicher, 1867-1869.
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Missouri. Infantry, 39th Regiment, Volunteers, Company D, Muster-Out Roll, 1864 (C2868)
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Civil War muster roll of Company D, 39th Infantry Regiment, Missouri Volunteers. OVERSIZE.
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Missouri. Infantry, 39th Regiment Volunteers, Company E, Muster-out Roll, 1865 (C1503)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
The collection contains a muster-out roll of a detachment of Lieutenant Colonel S[amuel] M. Wirt's company, organized September 1864, commanded by Lieutenant G.W. Weldy, and mustered-out at Macon, MO, by Captain B. Sharp.
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Missouri. Infantry, 45th Regiment, Volunteers, Company I Sick Report, 1864-1865 (C3860)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Sick report kept by Sgt. Richard B. Corson, listing soldiers in General Hospitals in Jefferson City and Nashville, Tennessee, or confined to quarters.
Missouri. Infantry Regiment, 49th. Company G, Muster-Out Roll, 1865 (C2632)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Muster-out roll of company organized at Warrenton, MO, September 23, 1864, and discharged at Benton Barracks, St. Louis, August 2, 1865.
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Missouri. Militia, 2nd Regiment Provisional Enrolled Missouri Militia, Co. A, Muster Roll, 1863 (C1499)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
The collection contains a muster roll of Captain John B. Meredith's Company, 1-April-30 June 1863.
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Missouri. Militia, 2nd Regiment Provisional Enrolled Missouri Militia, Co. A., Muster Roll, 1863 (C1500)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
The collection contains a muster roll of Captain John B. Meredith's Company.
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Missouri. Militia, 2nd Regiment Provisional Enrolled Missouri Militia, Co. A, Muster-In Roll, 1863 (C1496)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
The collection contains a muster-in roll of Captain John D. Meredith's company.
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Missouri. Militia, 4th Regiment Provisional Enrolled Missouri Militia, Co. D, Muster Roll, 1863 (C1504)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
The collection contains a muster roll of David P. Whitmer's company, 2 May-30 June 1863.
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Missouri. Militia, 50th Regiment Enrolled Missouri Militia, Company D, Muster Roll, 1862-1863 (C1501)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
The collection contains a muster roll of Captain Charles McQuoid's company, 9 August 1862-30 April 1863. Colonel Samuel M. Wirt, inspector and mustering officer.
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Missouri. Militia, 51st Regiment Enrolled Missouri Militia, Company F, Muster-In Roll, 1862 (C1506)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Muster-in roll of Captain David P. Whitmer's company, 29 July-25 December 1862.
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Missouri. Militia, 82nd Regiment, Enrolled Missouri Militia, Company L, Muster-Out Roll, 1863 (C2714)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Muster-out roll of regiment commanded by Captain Robert P. Clark. Organized 20 October 1863 at Platte City, MO.
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Missouri. Militia, Boone County, General Order No. 1, 1862 (C2879)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
General Order No. 1 requiring all persons subject to military duty in Boone County to report for enrollment.
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Missouri Militia, Enrolled Missouri Militia, 4th Military District Order Book, 1862-1863 (C1099)
0.2 cubic feet (1 volume)
Order book, Enrolled Missouri Militia, 4th Military District, Springfield, MO, General C.B. Holland, commanding officer. Includes genealogical index compiled by Justus R. Moll.
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Mitchell Family Papers, circa 1917-1980 (R0151)
0.01 cubic foot (1 folder)
The Mitchell Family Collection contains photocopies of reminiscences, newspaper clippings, and genealogical material concerning various members of the Mitchell family at Licking in Texas County, Missouri.