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Miscellaneous Discharge Certificates (Roll 493)

Department of Military and Veterans’ Affairs, Adjutant General, Miscellaneous Discharge Certificates, 1861-1866, This Digital Object is provided in a collection that is included in POWER LIBRARY: Pennsylvania Photos and Documents, which is funded by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries of Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania Department of Education., Grouped by year. Contains approximately thirty discharge certificates for recruits who served with federal (Army, Navy, and Marine Corps) or state (Pennsylvania Militia or National Guard) military units. Generally the documents give the names, ranks, birthplaces, ages (at enlistment), occupations, races, heights, and hair and eye colors, the dates and places where enlisted and discharged, the reasons for discharge, the terms of enlistment, and the branch of the service and unit to which each soldier was assigned. Some certificates were typed in the Twentieth Century, apparently to provide veterans with a service record for pension purposes.
A Collection of Power Library: Pennsylvania’s Electronic Library
APA citation style
(1861). Miscellaneous Discharge Certificates (Roll 493). Retrieved from https://digitalarchives.powerlibrary.org/psa/islandora/object/psa%3A261750
MLA citation style
Miscellaneous Discharge Certificates (Roll 493). no date. Pennsylvania. Department of Military and Veterans Affairs, 1861.
Chicago Citation Style citation style
“Miscellaneous Discharge Certificates (Roll 493)”, Miscellaneous Discharge Certificates, 1861-1866, 1861. https://digitalarchives.powerlibrary.org/psa/islandora/object/psa%3A261750.
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Title

Miscellaneous Discharge Certificates (Roll 493)

Subject

Pennsylvania. Department of Military and Veterans Affairs
Pennsylvania. Adjutant-General's Office
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Military discharge--United States

Description

Department of Military and Veterans’ Affairs, Adjutant General, Miscellaneous Discharge Certificates, 1861-1866

Publisher

Pennsylvania. Department of Military and Veterans Affairs

Department

Department of Military and Veterans' Affairs

Division

Adjutant General

Date

1861-1866

Location Covered

Pennsylvania

Type

text

Original Format

microfilm

Digital Format

image/jpeg

Identifier

RG19-493

Language

English

Relation

RG 19, Adjutant General, Series 45, Miscellaneous Discharge Certificates, 1861-1866

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-NC/1.0/

Contact

Commercial use of this image requires permission and may be subject to a fee. Contact Pennsylvania State Archives at http://www.pastatearchives.com

Contributing Institution

Pennsylvania State Archives

Sponsorship

This Digital Object is provided in a collection that is included in POWER LIBRARY: Pennsylvania Photos and Documents, which is funded by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries of Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania Department of Education.

Notes

Grouped by year. Contains approximately thirty discharge certificates for recruits who served with federal (Army, Navy, and Marine Corps) or state (Pennsylvania Militia or National Guard) military units. Generally the documents give the names, ranks, birthplaces, ages (at enlistment), occupations, races, heights, and hair and eye colors, the dates and places where enlisted and discharged, the reasons for discharge, the terms of enlistment, and the branch of the service and unit to which each soldier was assigned. Some certificates were typed in the Twentieth Century, apparently to provide veterans with a service record for pension purposes.