Archives - Military Records - Service Records 1865-1898

1607–1811 | 1812–1865 | 1865–1898 | 1898–1999

Of special interest are the records of activities which reflect the military experience in the upper great plains.

• Army list and directory, US Adjutant General's Office. Various years from 1893-1941. (Fed Docs D 102.9)
  
  
• Army Register, US Army, Division of Militia Affairs. 1896-1967. (Fed Docs D 102.9)
  
  
• Minnesota in the Civil and Indian War, 1861-1865. St Paul: Pioneer Press, 1890-1893, 2 vols. (Sibley and Sully campaigns) 977.6/M666
  
  
• On the trail of the Buffalo Soldiers; biographies of African Americans in the U S Army, 1866-1917 by Frank N Schubert. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources Service, 1995. 355.0092273
  
  
• Roster of the Organized Militia of the United States, 1898-1909. (Fed Docs 102.9)
  
  
• Seventh US Cavalry muster rolls. (Rolls #13575,13576,13577)
  
  
• US Army Commands records, Fort Buford, letters, orders 1867-1894. (Roll #4287)
  
  
• US Army Post Records, Fort Abraham Lincoln, Correspondence, plans, medical history, 1872-1878. (Rolls #5838, 4304, 4283)
  
  
• US Army Post Records, Fort Rice, medical history, 1864-1878. (Roll #4277
  
  
• US Army Post Records, Fort Seward, DT, 1872-1877. (Roll #4389, 4390)
  
  
• US Army Post Records, Fort Totten, Abandoned Military Reservation, Commanding Officers, medical history, 1869-1892. (Roll #4278, 4273, 4274, 4275, 4277)
  
  
• US Army Post Records, Fort Yates, medical history, 1878-1903. (Roll #4286
  
  
• US Army Post Returns, Camp Hancock, 1872-1877. (Roll #4310)
  
  
• US Army Post Returns, Fort Abercrombie, 1858-1977. (Roll #4305)
  
  
• US Army Post Returns, Fort Abraham Lincoln, 1872-1913. (Roll #4284, 4311, 4312, 4313)
  
  
• US Army Post Returns, Fort Abraham Lincoln, Fort McKeen, 1872. (Roll #4327)
  
  
• US Army Post Returns, Fort Abraham Lincoln, ordnance , 1879-1889. (Roll #4314)
  
  
• US Army Post Returns, Fort Berthold, 1865-1867. (Roll #4307)
  
  
• US Army Post Returns, Fort Buford, 1866-1895. (Roll #4308, 4309)
  
  
• US Army Post Returns, Fort Pembina, DT, 1870-1895. (Roll #4315, 4316)
  
  
• US Army Post Returns, Fort Rice, 1864-1878. (Roll #4317, 4318)
  
  
• US Army Post Returns, Fort Seward (Sykes), 1872-1877. (Roll #4319, 4328)
  
  
• US Army Post Returns, Fort Stevenson, 1867-1883. (Roll #4320, 4321)
  
  
• US Army Post Returns, Fort Totten, 1867-1890. (Roll #4322,4323)
  
  
• US Army Post Returns, Fort Yates, 1875-1903. (Roll #4324,4325,4326)
  
  
• US Army Ration Returns, Fort Abraham Lincoln, 1877. (Roll #1242)
  
  
• US Army Registers of Enlisted, Indian Scouts, v150-151, 1866-1877. (Roll #4295)
  
  
• US Army, Fort Totten, Major McLaughlin, Correspondence, miscellaneous papers, 1870-1891. (Roll #4361)
  
  
• US War Department, Letters received, Adjutant General, series 31913, 1871-1878. (Rolls #13373-13412)

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