Adjutant General's Office (Regular Army)

War Department. Adjutant General's Office Administrative History Note

 * Letters Received, 1805-1889. NARA Microfilm Publications,M566, M567,M619,M666,M689

National Archives Record Groups

 * Record Group 94 Records of the Adjutant General's Office, 1780s-1917
 * Lucille H. Pendell and Elizabeth Bethel. comps Preliminary Inventory of the Records of the Adjutant General's Office. Washington,DC: National Archives and Records Administration, 1949 FS Library Digital book
 * Record Group 407 Records of the Adjutant General's Office 1917-
 * National Archives Catalog Records of the Adjutant General's Office, 1905-1981, RG 407 NAID 703

Record Group Explorer
 * Records of the Adjutant General's Office, RG 407
 * Records of the Adjutant General's Office, RG 94

FamilySearch Catalog

 * Records of the Adjutant General's Office Record Group 94
 * Indexes
 * Index to general correspondence of The Adjutant General's Office, 1890-1917, NARA, M698, 1269 rolls
 * Indexes to letters received by the office of The Adjutant General (Main Series), 1846, (1846-1848), 1861-1889, NARA, M725, 9 rolls
 * Name and subject index to the letters received by the appointment, commission, and personal branch of the Adjutant General's Office, 1871- 1894, NARA, M1125, 4 rolls
 * Correspondence
 * Registers of letters received, 1812-1889 ; Letters received by the Office of the Adjutant General, main series, 1805-1821, 1822-1860, 1861-1870, 1871-1880, National Archives microfilm publications; M0711, M0666, M0566, M0567, M0619, M0689, M0619, 2192 rolls
 * Letters sent by the Office of the Adjutant General, main series, 1800-1890, NARA, M565, 63 rolls
 * Letters received by the Commission Branch of the Adjutant General's Office, 1863-1870, NARA, M1064, 477 Rolls
 *  Directories
 * Army list and directory Washington, D.C. : Government Printing Office (United States), 1919-1939

Related Sources

 * United States. War Department. General orders and circulars of the War Department and headquarters of the Army, 1809 - 1860. NARA M1094, 8 rolls
 * U.S. War Department, Office of the Secretary of War, Indexes to letters received by the Secretary of War, 1861-1870 NARA pub M95
 * U.S. War Department, Office of the Secretary of War, Letters received by the Secretary of War, unregistered series, 1789-1860, NARA pub M222
 * compiled by Raphael P. Thian ; with addenda edited by John M. Carroll ; foreward by Robert M. Utley, Notes illustrating the military geography of the United States, 1813-1880 Washington : Government Printing Office, 1881; reprint. Austin, Texas : University of Texas Press, c1979 FS Library 973 M2tn

Other Sources - Civil War

 * Beginning United States Civil War Research gives steps for finding information about a Civil War soldier or sailor. It covers the major records that should be used. Additional records are described in 'Florida in the Civil War' and 'United States Civil War, 1861 to 1865' (see below).


 * National Park Service, The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System, is searchable by soldier's name and state. It contains basic facts about soldiers on both sides of the Civil War, a list of regiments, descriptions of significant battles, sources of the information, and suggestions for where to find additional information.


 * United States Civil War, 1861 to 1865 describes and explains United States and Confederate States records, rather than state records, and how to find them. These include veterans’ censuses, compiled service records, pension records, rosters, cemetery records, Internet databases, published books, etc.


 * Union Regular Army in the Civil War describes Union sources, specifically about the Union Regular Army in the Civil War, and how to find them.