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Can I please get some info on this pass?


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Scott Powell

This was found in a Flea Market,and while I am certain it is from The Western Branch National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Ft Leavenworth Ks I cannot make out what his original unit was. ANY help would be very greatly appreciated

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RustyCanteen

A little further digging produced these links:

 

http://www.nps.gov/c...t_id=UMO0002RCY

 

He was in Company "L" as the card says: http://www.caulleysc...ndGgtVavMSM.txt

 

This lists him as a Corporal: http://www.sos.mo.go...Unit=&rbBranch=

 

 

 

For a little background on why they were listed as "State Militia" see this: http://en.wikipedia....Militia_(Union)

 

And the predecessor, the "State Guard" which ended up going pro-Confederacy. http://en.wikipedia....uri_State_Guard

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Known as Merill's "Black horse Cavalry" Fought Confedrate partisan rangers in N.E. & Central Mo. Missouri Pro- Confedrate Gov. Jackson abolished the militia

 

system in Mo. in 1861. & founded the "Missouri State Guard". My GGGrandfather was in 2 M.S.M Cav. Co. D.. also enlisting in

 

Macon,Mo. Chances you need more info on 2 M.S.M Cav..Drop

 

me a message i have a book in the works in refrence to 2 M.S.M Cav & Confedrate partisan rangers in N.E. & Central Mo. It is my

 

passion. John

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