Territorial Militia Service Cards, ca. This filmed card file contains a partial listing of individuals who served in the territorial militia, also known as the Nauvoo Legion, from the 1850s into the 1870s. The card catalog apparently was begun as part of an attempt by the Military Records Section to create a comprehensive listing of all militia veterans by abstracting or indexing data from various publications and other series. Each card provides the individual's name, rank, the name of the captain of the company in which he served, the dates of service, and often the number of his listing on a payroll.
Cards are in alphabetical order by surname.
Usually variant spellings of a name are listed together. Abstracted by the Military Records Section in the early 1960s and microfilmed in 1966. Archivally processed by A.C. Cone in 1990.