Indexed Source: Descriptive Recruitment Lists of Volunteers for the United States Colored Troops for the State of Missouri, 1863-1865. Washington, D.C.: Julius K. Hunter & Friends African American Research Collection St. Louis County Library and National Archives and Records Administration, 2002.

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• [blank] = No data was listed in the original record.
   
• / = The original record showed a non-alphabetical marking (usually a horizontal dash) rather than written material or a blank space.
   
• [?] = Part or all of the written material was difficult or impossible to read.

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