GAR Gen Lyon Post 2 Roster, 1889
Many men in St. Louis served in the Civil War. While some served in the Confederacy, most were part of the Union Army. After the war, Union veterans formed a fraternal organization called the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR). By 1890, the GAR had about 400,000 members and the veterans can be traced in the GAR annual reports and death rolls. St. Louis had about 13 GAR posts, with approximately four hundred posts elsewhere in Missouri.
Original Civil War pension records are available at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. You can order the pension files online at the National Archives Military website.
Post 2 of the Missouri Department was named after BG Nathaniel Lyon (1818–1861), who was killed at Wilson’s Creek, Missouri, 10 August 1861.
This roster of the Gen Lyon Post No. 2 as of 1889 has been indexed. The names of the veterans their unit(s), occupation, address are included in the index.
This information comes from the By-Laws, Rules of Order and Roster of Gen Lyon Post No. 2, G.A.R. Department of Missouri , pages 5–13. The images of this booklet are provided by the Missouri Historical Society with copyright NO COPYRIGHT – UNITED STATES and usage rights of Missouri Historical Society Open Access Policy
How the booklet data was prepared and transcribed using Google AI Studio see below at Data Prep
EXPLANATION:
Status Symbols * Transferred. † Suspended or Dropped ‡ Elected, not mustered. § Dead.
M. S. Missouri, (Mo.), indicates Missouri State Militia (Cavalry Vols).
U. S. R. C., Mo.—United States Reserve Corps, Mo. Vol. Infantry.
E. M., Mo.—Enrolled Militia, Mo.
Data Prep
1. The booklet images downloaded from MoHist and merged into a PDF using ImageMagick
2. Google AI Studio was used with the prompt
transcribe pages 5 to 13 of this PDF and save as a CSV file with packet as "post2" as column 1, File Page Number as Scan in column 2, "ROLL NO" as column 3, Status ‡ if in NAME or † if in NAME or § if in NAME or * if in NAME, Sentence case Surname from NAME, Sentence case Given Name from NAME with no ".", "RANK, COMPANY, ETC" as Unit with quotes, "OCCUPATION AND RESIDENCE" as "Occupation Residence" with quotes
3. The output CSV processed for ingest into the Society’s database.
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