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X24 MOM
X24 MOM ✭✭✭
June 28, 2020 edited February 12, 2021 in Search
Census record confusion

Can someone pls tell me what’s going on with this record? It looks like some military folks are included but why? None of this makes sense to me😖 I should add that ancestry has this record marked as July 3, 1865 which is one of the union muster dates. The location for this record is Clear Lake, Sangamon, Illinois

@Midwest​ 

@Military Records​ 

@United States Genealogy Research​ 

@Family History Research​ 

 

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  • Dennis J Yancey
    Dennis J Yancey ✭✭✭✭✭
    June 28, 2020

    Note this is not a federal census - but a state census

    also note the important year as 1865 (the Civil War)

    many men were away from home at the time.

    I imagine this was a miltary group that were being counted as part of the census

    that were not at home at the time of the census.

     

     

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  • Dennis J Yancey
    Dennis J Yancey ✭✭✭✭✭
    June 28, 2020

    also note the term on that page again that we brought up months back of "deaf and dumb"

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  • Patricia  Jensen
    Patricia Jensen ✭✭
    June 28, 2020

    Looks like the army was camped in the area and the enumerator recorded the captains, as they would have a head of family, and then the number of individuals in the captains' companies as members in his household.

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  • Christopher L. Coleman
    Christopher L. Coleman ✭
    June 28, 2020

    Illinois law required to list all number of males eligible for duty in the militia. While many early state census/tax/tithables do have a military/militia requirements, this does not appear to be what is being recorded.

     

    As you have stated the 1865 Illinois census is dated 3 July 1865, and the Civil War had officially ended 9 April 1865; but the the Illinois's 2nd Regiment was still active, they had moved to Mississippi in May 1865, thence to Shreveport, LA., 14-21 June 1865; thence to San Antonia, Texas, 9 July - 2 August 1865. The 2nd Regiment was mustered out of service on 22 November 1865. This would have been after the Census in July. I believe what you are seeing on this page is the Illinois census attempting to enumerate all the Soldiers that were still actively serving out of state.

     

     

     

     

     

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  • X24 MOM
    X24 MOM ✭✭✭
    June 30, 2020

    Thank you for the wonderful info @Christopher L. Coleman​ 😊

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