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A muster roll is the list of members of a military unit, often including their rank and the dates they joined or left. A roll call is the reading aloud of the names on the muster roll and the responses, to determine who is present.
Removal rolls were rolls created by the federal government in order to list American Indians who were scheduled for expulsion from American Indian land, as part of the process of the ethnic cleansing of American Indians. Removal rolls are sometimes referred to as "muster rolls" or "emigration rolls".
National Archives., bi-monthly muster rolls and payrolls, weekly strength returns, descriptive rosters, periodic inspection reports, clothing returns, as well as a potentially broad array of “miscellaneous” unit-related archival records
Over the span of its existence, the regiment carried a total of 2,705 men on its muster rolls. [1]The regiment suffered 14 officers and 150 enlisted men killed in action or mortally wounded and 6 officers and 244 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 414 fatalities.
A military service number of the Regular Army. Service numbers were used by the United States Army from 1918 until 1969. Prior to this time, the Army relied on muster rolls as a means of indexing enlisted service members while officers were usually listed on yearly rolls maintained by the United States War Department.
Because the list of units was compiled over thirty years after the war, from very fragmentary records collected by the United States War Department, some units are misidentified, some being listed as regiments that may in fact have only been a company, such as Brandenburch's Arkansas Cavalry Regiment, [99] which in fact was actually composed of ...
Smith's Co. muster roll (May 16, 1777): U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 93, microcopy M246, roll 126, frames 175–176 (at end of roll 126) ("A Muster Roll of Capt. Alexr. Lawson Smith's Company Including part of other Company's belonging to the same Regiment of Lieut. Colo. Rawling's Batn. of Foot now under Commnd.
MG Richard Caswell, New Bern District Brigade and North Carolina Militia commander [note 1] MG William Smallwood, 2nd North Carolina Militia commander [note 2] BG Allen Jones, Halifax District Brigade commander Col William Richardson Davie, Independent Corps of Light Horse commander Col Robert Howe, Brunswick County Regiment commander Col James Kenan, Duplin County Regiment commander Col John ...