More Information About the Records and Index

Recruit’s information

  • Full name
  • Age
  • County and state of birth
  • Slave owner, if a slave

Slave owner’s information

  • Full name
  • County and state of residence
  • Loyalty to the union (sometimes mentioned by not consistently)
Digitized image with an orange box and large arrow at the top indicating where the frame number is located.

While FamilySearch did capture many of the frame numbers, in some instances they cropped their images through the frame number. 

Frame number example - NARA 272

 

Cropped frame number example - the bottom part of the letters NARA 272

We have produced a Frame Number Index to assist you in using the Descriptive Recruitment Lists of the United States Colored Troops for the State of Missouri.

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