These papers document the administration and activities of various segments of the territorial militia, also known as the Nauvoo Legion. They were brought together by archives staff in the late 1950s and early 1960s in an effort to collect all documents about Utah veterans from any source and to serve as a state repository for those documents. Numerous categories of papers are included, among them correspondence, receipts and bills, diaries and journals, muster rolls, payrolls, rosters, reports, and returns. Few months during the Civil War is also mentioned. In addition to correspondence, journals or typed transcripts are relatively descriptive. They include personal or company diaries kept at the time of service. They also include reminisc.
