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The collection of The Official Army Register of the Volunteer Force of the United States Army 1861 to 1865 includes 7 parts of the register that was published by order of the Secretary of War, in compliance with the Joint resolution of the Senate and House Representatives, approved on the 2 March 1865.

The United States Volunteers were volunteers enlisted in the United States Army who were separate from the Regular Army. These regiments were often referred to as the Volunteer Army of the United States, however, they were not officially named that until 1898.

During the nineteenth century, this was the United State Federal Government’s main means of raising large forces of citizen soldiers needed in time of war to supplement the regular army.

This collection includes the following parts of the register:

Part 1 New England States

Part 2 New York and New Jersey

Part 3 Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, District of Columbia

Part 4 West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky

Part 5 Ohio, Michigan

Part 6 Indiana, Illinois

Part 7 Missouri, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, California, Kansas, Oregon, Nevada

Parts 1 to 6 were printed on the 31 August 1865, parts 7 and 8 were printed on the 16 July 1867.