Index
Brief list of National Archives records
The National Archives has literally thousands of pages relating to the 91st PA. They have six "regimental books" (about 200 pages each) and five archives boxes (500 to 1000 pages) specifically relating to the 91st. I have a copy of four regimental books, and part of one other.
- Pension indexes, by name and by regiment (incomplete)
- widow's pension certificate files (incomplete)
Record Group 94: Records of the Adjutant General's Office, 1780's-1917
- regimental letter, order, furlough, and guard report book
- order book, companies A-K, except D [I have company E only]
- morning reports, companies A, C, G
- descriptive books, companies A-E
- descriptive books, companies F-K
- regimental descriptive book and consolidated morning reports
- five archives boxes of muster rolls, returns, and regimental papers (500-1000 pages each; unfortunately, the National Archives will not copy them)
- other records, not from NARA
- monthly return, co. B, May 1864 (thanks to Don Zierer for providing a copy to me!)
- monthly return, co.K, April 1864 (thanks to Dennis Clowney for providing a copy to me!)
- monthly return, co. K, June 1865 (thanks to Don Zierer for providing a copy to me!)
- abstract of expenditures, 2nd quarter 1865, company G (thanks to Don Zierer for providing a copy to me!)
Record Group 105
These letters sent by the Assistant Commissioner for Texas of the Bureau of Freedmen, Refugees, and Abandoned Lands, include letters written by Edgar Gregory.
Record Group 153 (Judge Advocate General, Army)
These records include court-martial files (for field and general courts martial).
More detailed listing of National Archives records
census
regimental letter, order, guard report, and furlough book
The earliest records in this are from June 1863. The 91st's headquarters wagon was captured in November 1862, with all their records. I do not know what happened to the records from then until June 1863. Tayman's request for information about commissioned officers on 18 August 1863 may suggest all regimental records were lost shortly before that.
- regimental letters, June 1863-July 1865 [completed]
- regimental orders, June 1863-July 1865 [completed]
- guard reports, 17 March 1864-30 April 1864 (preliminary transcription)
- letters and orders received, June-December 1863 [completed]
- untitled list of officers' furloughs, October 1864-June 1865 [completed]
- list of enlisted men who received furloughs, October 1864-June 1865 [completed]
- undated list of men detailed away from regiment [completed]
- untitled list of some officers' names with P, C, F, or blank in columns to the right [completed]
- bi-monthly report of enlisted men discharged for disability [lists only 1 man, discharged 1 August 1864] [completed]
order book, companies A-K, except D
- Company E (film supplied by Dennis Clowney) [completed]
descriptive books, companies A-E
- Company A [finished]
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- Register of men transferred [1 manuscript page]
- List of commissioned officers [1 manuscript page]
- List of non-commissioned officers [1 manuscript page]
- Register of men discharged [2 manuscript pages]
- Register of men paroled [1 manuscript page]
- Register of deaths [1 manuscript page]
- Register of deserters [1 manuscript page]
- Descriptive roll [187 entries; 38 manuscript pages]
- one page that is illegibly light on my microfilm copy; it may list men who owe money for lost property (as in company B)
- Company B, first descriptive book [finished]
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- List of commissioned officers [1 manuscript page]
- List of non-commissioned officers [2 manuscript pages]
- Register of deaths [1 manuscript page]
- Descriptive roll [5 manuscript pages, entries 1-43]
- Descriptive roll [8 manuscript pages, numbers 1-74]
- [men who owed the government for lost equipment]
- Company B, second descriptive book [finished]
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- List of commissioned officers [1 manuscript page]
- List of non-commissioned officers [2 manuscript pages]
- Register of men discharged [1 manuscript page]
- Register of deserters [1 blank manuscript page]
- Descriptive roll [26 manuscript pages, entries 1-112]
- Company C [finished]
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- List of commissioned officers [1 manuscript page]
- List of non-commissioned officers [2 manuscript pages]
- Register of men transferred [1 manuscript page]
- Register of men discharged [1 manuscript page]
- Register of deaths [1 manuscript page]
- Register of deserters [1 manuscript page]
- Descriptive roll [189 entries, 19 manuscript pages]
- four manuscript pages, perhaps listing status when the regiment mustered out
- Company D [finished]
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- List of commissioned officers [1 manuscript page]
- List of non-commissioned officers [2 manuscript pages]
- Register of men transferred [2 manuscript pages]
- Register of men discharged [3 manuscript pages]
- Register of deaths [2 manuscript pages]
- Register of deserters [3 manuscript pages]
- Descriptive roll 1 [6 manuscript pages, 39 entries]
- Descriptive roll 2 [11 manuscript pages, 110 entries]
- Company E (film supplied by Dennis Clowney) [completed]
company F-K descriptive books
- Company F [completed]
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- List of commissioned officers [1 manuscript page]
- List of non-commissioned officers [1 manuscript page]
- Register of men transferred [1 manuscript page]
- Register of men discharged [2 manuscript pages]
- Register of deaths [1 manuscript page]
- Register of deserters [1 manuscript page]
- First descriptive roll [12 manuscript pages, 114 entries]
- Second descriptive roll [5 manuscript pages, 47 entries]
- Company G [completed]
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- List of commissioned officers [1 manuscript page]
- List of non-commissioned officers [1 manuscript page]
- Register of men transferred [1 manuscript page]
- Register of men discharged [3 manuscript pages]
- Register of deaths [1 manuscript page]
- Register of deserters [1 manuscript page]
- Descriptive roll [10 manuscript pages, 100 entries]
- Second descriptive roll [5 manuscript pages]
- Company H [completed]
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- List of commissioned officers [1 manuscript page]
- List of non-commissioned officers [2 manuscript pages]
- Register of men transferred [2 manuscript pages]
- Register of men discharged [2 manuscript pages]
- Register of deaths [1 manuscript page]
- Register of deserters [1 manuscript page]
- Descriptive roll [20 manuscript pages, 194 entries]
- Company I [completed]
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- List of commissioned officers [1 manuscript page]
- List of non-commissioned officers [1 manuscript page]
- Register of men transferred [1 manuscript page]
- Register of men discharged [1 manuscript page]
- Register of deaths [1 manuscript page]
- Register of deserters [1 manuscript page]
- Descriptive roll [12 manuscript pages, 116 entries]
- Company K [completed]
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- List of commissioned officers [1 manuscript page]
- List of non-commissioned officers [1 manuscript page]
- Register of men transferred [1 manuscript page]
- Register of men discharged [1 manuscript page]
- Register of deaths [1 manuscript page]
- Register of deserters [1 manuscript page]
- First descriptive roll [17 manuscript pages, 93 entries]
- Second descriptive roll [1 manuscript page, 11 entries]
- Third descriptive roll [11 manuscript pages, 108 entries]
- Second list of commissioned officers [1 manuscript page]
- Second list of non-commissioned officers [2 manuscript pages]
- Second list of men discharged [1 manuscript page]
- Second register of deaths [1 manuscript page]
- Second list of deserters [1 manuscript page]
- Fourth descriptive roll [24 manuscript pages, 87? entries]
regimental descriptive book and consolidated morning reports
- regimental descriptive book (lists officers) [completed]
- consolidated morning reports [list of extant reports], 7 February 1863 to 9 July 1865 with many gaps (very incomplete transcription)
court-martial files
- Baker, D B [two trials, with the related trial of James B Bonsall 126th PA]
- Bowman, Alpheus
- Brewster, Enoch
- Gilbert, Joseph
- Green, Joseph
- Hamill, John
- Kayser, Morris
- Koshland, Nathan (and 2nd court martial)
- Walter, Thomas
- [see also Jesse Wharton's court martial]
Some Historical Society of Pennsylvania records
See http://www.hsp.org/collections/guides/cwmss.html. I do not have copies of any of these records.- Andrew Brown (C). Letterbook 1862-1864. (Collection number 82.)
- Cyrus Cartledge (E). Civil War letters and discharge papers pertaining to Cartledge, Joseph Wallens, and Walter H Miller Doc Box 15
- John L Smith. Papers 1862-1865: book of mimeographed/carbon-copied letters, miscellaneous, loose original letters; and diaries. (transferred from 118th PA)