Fold3.com‘s “Registers of Enlistments in the United States Army, 1798-1914,” (taken from page 248 of roll 23, National Archives and Records Administration microfilm publication M233. The page is headed with the phrase “for the War with Mexico”) contains the enlistment information for the “older” Andrew Trautvetter. The enlistment entry indicated this Andrew was 19 years […]

    Fold3.com‘s “Registers of Enlistments in the United States Army, 1798-1914,” (taken from page 36 of roll 34, National Archives and Records Administration microfilm publication M233, page 196) contains the enlistment information for the “younger” Andrew Trautvetter. I’m not certain the two Andrew Trautvetters found in “Never Assume There is Only One” are actually […]

Never assume a name is unusual. A search on Andrew Trautvetter resulted in two matches on Fold3.com from the “Army Register of Enlistments 1798-1914.”  The entries included approximate years of birth (inferred from ages), so they probably weren’t the same man. The registers were also from twenty years apart (1847 and 1867).  The 1847 entry was the most likely reference […]

Assignments on bounty land warrants are always interesting. Many recipients of these warrants did not actually travel to federal lands and stake out their own claim. Instead they assigned them to someone who was willing to make that claim. Some of those individuals who purchased the warrants actually patented real property themselves, others assigned them […]