New York (State). Bureau of Records of the War of the Rebellion.

These abstracts were compiled pursuant to Laws of 1887 authorizing the Adjutant General "to procure copies of all military records relating to New York volunteers in the war of the rebellion, not on file in his office from the proper departments of the general government."

In addition the Adjutant General was "to establish as part of his office a bureau of records of the war of the rebellion, in which all records in his office relating to said war, and the records and relics of the bureau of military statistics shall be united and kept."

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