Title: Wisconsin. Adjutant General's Office: Incoming Correspondence
Inclusive Dates: 1861-1893

Creator:

• Wisconsin. Adjutant General's Office

Call Number: Series 1927

Quantity: 18.2 c.f. (46 archives boxes)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

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Abstract:

Incoming correspondence about Wisconsin military units and soldiers, primarily addressed to the Adjutant General but also including letters to other governmental officials such as the Governor and Quartermaster General. Letters dating from the Civil War pertain to recruiting, desertion, the draft, commissions, casualty reports, complaints, and inquiries about individual soldiers chiefly from their dependents. Correspondence dating 1866-1882 often concerns pension documentation. After 1882, letters deal with National Guard unit supplies and equipment, commissions, recruits, and disciplinary matters. Files also include minutes from meetings of state military units, as well as one sample of original fabric offered by a New York manufacturer (Feb. 1, 1886). Records for June-September, 1874; 1876; 1877; January-May, 1890; and September, 1890-March, 1891, are missing.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-ser01927

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“National Guard letterbooks” (Series 1122) and “Letterbooks” (Series 1121) partially index this series.

Though this series contains pension/veteran letters for the periods December 1884 and March 1887, the majority of the Adjutant General's correspondence dealing with pensions may be found in Volunteer Service Letters, Series 1120. Beginning in 1867, the incoming correspondence corresponds to the outgoing correspondence contained in the Adjutant General's Letterbooks, Series 1121. After 1880, the Adjutant General National Guard Letterbooks, Series 1122, have that relationship to Series 1927. As both sets of letterbooks are alphabetically indexed they should be consulted as indexes to incoming correspondence.

Box   1	1861, February 5-September
Box   2	1861, October-1862, February 15
Box   3	1862, February 16-July
Box   4	1862, August-September 22 Note: As of October 2009, this box is missing.
Box   5	1862, September 23-November
Box   6	1862, December-1863, February
Box   7	1863, March-May
Box   8	1863, June-August (Field)
Box   9	1863, August (State) , - October (Field)
Box   10	1863, October (State) , -November
Box   11	1863, December-1864, February 15 (Field)
Box   12	1864, February 16 (Field) , -March 5 (State)
Box   13	1864, March 6 (State) , -April 15 (State)
Box   14	1864, April 16 (State) , -May 16 (State)
Box   15	1864, May 17 (State) , -June 14 (State)
Box   16	1864, June 15 (State) , -July 13 (State)
Box   17	1864, July 14 (State) , -August 16 (State)
Box   18	1864, August 17 (State) , -September 27 (State)
Box   19	1864, September 28 -November 10 (State)
Box   20	1864, November 11 (State) , -1865, January 11 (Field)
Box   21	1865, January 12 (Field) , -February (State)
Box   22	1865, March (State) , -August 7
Box   23	1865, August 8-December
Box   24	1866, January-October
Box   25	1866, November-1869, January
Box   26	1869, February-1870, September
Box   27	1870, October-1872
Box   28	1873-1875, August
Box   29	1875, May-1879, January
Box   30	1879, February-September
Box   31	1879, October-1880, April
Box   32	1880, May-1881, March
Box   33	1881, April-1882, April
Box   34	1882, May-1883, January
Box   35	1883, February-December
Box   36	1884, January-August
Box   37	1884, September-1885, June
Box   38	1885, July-1886, February
Box   38a	1886, March-December
Box   39	1887, January-July
Box   40	1887, August-1888, March
Box   41	1888, April-October
Box   42	1888, November-1889, May
Box   43	1889, June-November
Box   44	1889, December-1890, August
Box   45	1891, April-1893, September (Alphabetically arranged)