Virginia Military Discharge Records
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Would this record be considered a death register? Each entry has the word "Cause" and a cause (ie heart trouble) next to it.
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These are military discharge records. The cause is the reason the men were discharged from the military. You'll see on the next 2 images in that batch "dependents" and "dependency."
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Except that an R instead of a D stands for Rejected (for a medical reason), so those persons with an R as the action were not accepted into the Military at that date/time, and so were not “Discharged” then. I’m not sure what the Project Managers would want done with those individuals. Indexing them as if they were soldiers and using that associated date as a “military” date seems misleading. For them this was not a Discharge record.
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